Japan-based Toppan Printing has unveiled plans to build a new transparent barrier film production facility in Georgia, US, with an investment of about JPY10bn ($98m). Said to be the first one for the company outside Japan, the new ...
The China Packaging Tour is all about sightseeing – the kind of sightseeing that will pay you back in business contacts and new opportunities for business growth. China has the largest population in the world - around 1.35 billion ...
MeadWestvaco (MWV), a global packaging company has introduced SmartFare, a new package for chilled ready meals (CRM). The new SmartFare packages are said to transform the CRM tray into a brandable experience, as well as increase brand ...
Tags: Chilled Ready Meals, Package
The global packaging company teamed up with linerless labelling specialist Ravenwood to develop Slidewrap – a pioneering slidable labelling system, which looks and functions just like a cardboard sleeve, but is said to deliver the ...
Product packaging plays an important role in enhancing consumers’ skincare experience, according to a new ‘Skincare Research & Insights Study’ by MeadWestvaco (MWV). The study, which involved 23 ethnographies and 16 ...
The company said that its MuCell technology for extrusion blow moulding represents a breakthrough in bottle technology, using gas-injection to create gas bubbles in the middle layer of the bottle wall. This reduces the density of the bottle ...
Global packaging firm Sonoco has announced plans to invest about $20m in the establishment of a composite can production plant for snacks packaging in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The company will also add three additional high-speed composite ...
MeadWestvaco (MWV) has chosen to renew its partnership with Xerox for IT management services as the global packaging company continues to grow in targeted packaging and specialty chemicals markets. Partners since 2006, Xerox will extend ...
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At its foundations, The Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP) is an educational body with a broad mission to impart packaging expertise to the wider industry. So, early in 2013, the AIP worked with the World Packaging Organisation (WPO) ...
US-based packaging products supplier Burrows Paper has started a simultaneous conversion and expansion project at its plants. The project is part of the company's plan to expand Burrows domestic paper and global packaging business groups. ...
28 Jan 2014 The biggest surges in invention occur after periods of challenge. Sadly, a lot of the world’s surges in industry, design, transport…even in fashion, have been due to war. Packaging is having an innovation ...
Tags: DuPont, AidPod, Coca-Cola, Yasmin Siddiqi
UK-based retailer Asda, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Wal-Mart, is set to implement a cloud-based color service called PantoneLIVE across its global packaging supply chain. PantoneLIVE enables Asda to improve operational efficiencies and ...
DuPont Packaging announced the call for entries in the 26th DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation, the industry's longest running, independently judged competition. The awards program returns for a new year with refreshing changes that ...
Tags: Packaging Innovation, innovation
Pouch packaging is exciting. Designers are excited about it. Retailers are excited by it. The result of these two things is that the pouch packaging hitting the shelves now has some real star performers – eye catching, innovative and ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Pouch packaging
Global packaging company ASG (AGI Shorewood) plans to expand its East Flat Rock plant in Henderson County, North Carolina. The expansion, which is expected to add about 50 jobs, will include positions in the facility's pressroom, ...
Tags: AGI Shorewood, Flat Rock Facility