North American injection molded plastic products manufacturer IPL has introduced new family of the new square food containers at the K 2013 trade fair in Düsseldorf, Germany. The clear polypropylene (PP) Film Seal Square Line and ...
The LEED rating system recently experienced a significant overhaul. Specifiers and applicators are looking for coatings that meet the new LEED v4 requirements while delivering optimal performance. Sherwin-Williams manufactures coatings that ...
Tags: Green Building Standards, LEED, Sherwin-Williams Coating
Constellium N.V. (NYSE and NYSE Euronext: CSTM) announced today that the company has been awarded a multi-year agreement with The Boeing Company to support all of The Boeing Company's leading commercial airplane programs. With this ...
Tags: Constellium, award, multi-year, contract, supply, aluminium
Manufactured by Berry Plastics in the US, Stratos is a multi-polymer product that is said to have a stretch ration of 300% and a thickness of 11.4 micron. It was developed for the freezer industry and works in temperatures to minus 30 ...
Tags: New Stretch Film, Abco Kovex, Berry Plastics
The rest of the consumer product company’s sites in the UK and Ireland are at 94.4% recycling in overall tonnage. The FMCG giant set environmental targets in 2011 to reduce its packaging by 20% (per consumer use) by 2020 compared ...
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The recycling specialist will increase capacity at its Dagenham plant from 35,000 to 55,000 tonnes per annum to meet demands of the dairy industry as it works towards higher recycled content targets, while also diverting a further 30,000 ...
Today’s launch will see the pan-European group join up the ‘packaging’, ‘recycling’, ‘plastics’ and ‘paper’ tags in the names of its various divisions and marks the culmination of more ...
Tags: SCA Packaging, DS Smith, pan-European group
Growth is expected to outpace expansion in fresh produce production, reflecting the important role of packaging in the protection, safety assurance, and marketing of fresh fruits and vegetables. The Freedonia Group said plastic containers ...
Tags: Packaging, US market, Surge Ahead
Rumpke, Ohio's recycling leader, announced today that carton containers are now accepted in its residential and commercial recycling programs. "Rumpke is committed to growing recycling in the region," said Jeff Rumpke, vice president. "We ...
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On America Recycles Day, the non-alcoholic beverage industry reaffirms its longstanding commitment to further minimizing its environmental impact, and is making it easier for consumers to do the same. "From our 100 percent recyclable ...
Tags: beverage industry, Non-Alcoholic, America Recycles Day
Plantic Technologies Ltd, an international supplier of performance biopolymers, introduces Plantic eco Plastic R the first ultra-high barrier packaging material that is both renewable and recyclable. Building on the success of Plantic ...
Tags: Ultra-High Barrier, Packaging Material, renewable and recyclable
German autoparts maker Continental has inaugurated its new tire plant, ContiLifeCycle, in Hannover-Sticken, Germany. Claimed to be the first globally, the new plant integrates an advancede facility for retreading bus and truck tires with ...
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Average costs for vertically integrated first-tier makers are now forecast to fall yet another 6% in 2014 to a record low of US$0.20 per watt, according to Solarbuzz. Since 2008, solar PV wafer manufacturing costs (the combined costs of ...
The aluminum beverage can industry raised $133,695 for local charities by recycling 178,099 pounds of cans, which equates to more than 5.7 million beverage cans, for the Can Manufacturers Institute's (CMI) Great American Can RoundUp ...
Aluminum rolling and recycling firm Novelis has entered a deal to divest its North American consumer foil products business to Reynolds Consumer Products for $35m. The sale includes foil manufacturing plants in Toronto, and Vancouver, ...
Tags: Novelis, Consumer Foil Products Business, North American