Belgian flexographic photopolymer plate development firm Asahi Photoproducts has unveiled AFP-TSP, a plate with pinning top dot technology (PTD), capable of catering to requirements, such as, carton and corrugated board applications. ...
Specialty paper firm Lecta has launched a light wet-strength metallized paper Metalvac E LWS for labeling PET and single-use glass bottles. The new product comes under the firm's product lineup of 100% recyclable high-vacuum metalized ...
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Fast food restaurant chain McDonald's has introduced a new packaging called McBike that could perch on the handlebars of a cycle and unfold into a tray. Made of cardboard, the box is capable of carrying burger, fries and drink. The ...
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Finnish pulp and paper maker Stora Enso is contemplating to close down its corrugated packaging converting facility in Chennai, India, due to lack of domestic market. Stora Enso, a firm engaged in renewable solutions in packaging, ...
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Italian packaging applications firm Marchesini Group has purchased some technologies of Bologna-based Multipack specializing in end-of-line packaging systems for pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and foodstuff. Marchesini, which has been using ...
MM Packaging is an Austrian coated recycled cartonboard firm with a growing position in virgin fiber based board and a major European manufacturer of folding cartons. Based in France, Ileos designs and manufactures plastic, metal and ...
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A box and a package, that is about all renting family dream! After all, we must face cumbersome with moving, especially in the long-distance drifting of single women~ ~ The new sofa still leave or throw? Room in a Box to give you a home ...
KTH-Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden has used corrugated epitaxial lateral overgrowth (CELOG) to create heterojunctions consisting of n-type indium phosphide (n-InP) and p-type silicon (p-Si) [Y. T. Sun et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., ...
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The group has just been awarded a PEFC sustainable forest management certification. APRIL is Indonesia’s second largest paper and pulp company, and will rely solely on plantations to provide the fibre for its pulp, and not ...
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Thailand-based industrial conglomerate Siam Cement hopes to jack up 5-10% sales out of its paper and packaging this year, banking on demand from Southeast Asian countries. Domestic growth, however, is expected to be around 1-2%. Siam ...
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OrganoClick AB, a Swedish company that develops, produces and markets functional materials based on environmentally friendly fibre chemistry, has received funding of SEK 815,000 (approx. $99,542) from Vinnova, a Swedish governmental ...
US folding cartons and paperboard specialty firm Colbert Packaging has attained G7 Master stage in its manufacturing plants for reaching a graphic communications production environment. The G7 Master level, conferred by a cross-platform ...
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A team at IBM Research's Zurich Research Laboratory in Rüschlikon, Switzerland, with support from the firm's T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, has developed what it says is a relatively simple, robust and ...
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Earlier this year, I blogged about the excitement in China generated by the news that its Dalian Wanda Group planned to invest $1.09 billion to build and operate a luxury hotel in London. At the time of their announcement (made in the ...
Indonesian pulp and paper major Asia Pacific Resources International (April) has decided to make peace with green activists, throwing its weight behind the drive to put an end to deforestation. In response to international pressure group ...
Tags: Packaging, Paper, Environment Protection