Sealed Air’s Ethafoam maximum recycled content (MRC) and Ethafoam (high recycled content) HRC polyethylene foams that are produced in the Grand Prairie, Texas facility in the US have received Recycled Material Content certification ...
Tags: Polyethylene Foams, Recycled Material, packaging alternatives
Whole Foods Market’s Rocky Mountain Region is planning to switch to 100% recycled paperboard deli boxes with a coating made from 40% calcium carbonate. The company is gearing up to launch two sizes of paperboard deli containers with ...
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A Europe-wide life-cycle assessment conducted by Germany-based Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IFEU) has revealed that carton packs for ultra-high temperature (UHT) milk have a better environmental profile when compared to ...
Tags: Milk Carton, carton packs, milk packaging
Demand for protective coatings in the European Union has been weakened by the downturn in EU manufacturing due to the euro crisis. But there is a protective coatings segment—coatings for oil and gas pipeline—further east in ...
Tags: protective coatings, EU, euro crisis, coatings for oil and gas pipeline
LDR has secured an approval letter from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its low-profile cervical intervertebral disc. The Mobi-C disc, which is a metal and polyethylene mobile bearing prosthesis, is a cervical implant ...
Tags: LDR, FDA, approval letter, cervical intervertebral disc, Mobi-C disc
US-based Avery Dennison will launch a new portfolio of Fasson Wash-off labels that provide label converters with a replacement for any existing wet-glue product and are suitable for both glass and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles. ...
Tags: Labels for Bottles, Labels, polyethylene terephthalate bottles
Indian flexible packaging manufacturer Uflex will secure EUR30m financing for its third expansion project in Poland, from KfW IPEX-Bank in Germany. Uflex is establishing its first European production facility in Wrzesnia, Poland, which ...
US-based Berry Plastics together with Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear announced that the company will reopen its Madisonville, Kentucky, manufacturing facility to increase its production capacity. Berry Plastics chairman and CEO Jon Rich ...
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US-based Dow Chemical has sponsored a customer care center, located in the Vista Ballroom, with an aim to meet its customers in a setting designed to encourage collaboration on 28-31 October at Pack Expo 2012. The company's performance ...
Tags: Packaging Products, resins portfolio, Film Application
A provider of chemical and plastics solutions Borealis, and Nexeo Solutions, a plastics distribution company, announced that they have inked a distribution agreement to offer Bormed products, specially dedicated to healthcare applications ...
Tags: plastics distribution, PP, PE
Indorama Ventures (IVL) has completed the previously announced acquisition of the polyethylene terephthalate (PET) assets of PT Polypet Karyapersada in Indonesia. The deal was first announced in March 2012. According to IVL, the deal ...
The global PET market is expected to reach $48.4 billion in 2016, up from an estimated $23.3bn in 2010, registering a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.6% from 2011 to 2016, according to a report published by Transparency Market ...
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RPC has supplied a new bespoke five liter container for automotive maintenance specialist Lescot's launch of a new all-season screen wash onto the French market. According to RPC, Lescot joined Motul Group in March 2011 - earlier the ...
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World Bank Group’s member, International Finance Corporation (IFC) plans to invest around $45m in SRF Industries (Thailand) and another $40m in the company’s South African business. The proposed investment in the Thailand's ...
Tags: Foreign Arms, bi-axially-oriented polyethylene terephthalate
German industrial packaging firm Schutz has unveiled its second plant in China that will produce IBCs and drums to meet the regional demand. The firm said the new plant, which had started operations at Tianjin, has added capacity for IBC ...
Tags: industrial packaging, expansion, production environment