US-based Twin Rivers Paper has signed an agreement to acquire Mondi Group’s paper mill in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Terms of the deal, which is expected to be completed in the second quarter of this year, have not been disclosed. Pine ...
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Consumer goods firm Unilever has collaborated with start-up firm Ioniqa and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) resin producer Indorama Ventures to pioneer a new technology that can turn PET waste into virgin grade material for use in food ...
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South African label printer and converter First Impression Labels (FIL) has purchased equipment from Rotocon and Screen Graphic Solutions to boost its digital print production capability. The firm has invested in a Screen Truepress Jet ...
Packaging manufacturer Coveris has agreed to divest its Americas packaging business to Transcontinental (TC Transcontinental) in a deal worth $1.320bn. Coveris Americas, which is a subsidiary of Sun Capital Partners portfolio firm ...
Allen Ko, chairman of Kwang Yang Motor Co., Ltd (KYMCO), a Taiwanese company that manufactures motor scooters, motorcycles, and ATVs for worldwide distribution, announced that the company has worked out a total battery solution for electric ...
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Peruvian company Industrias San Miguel (ISM) has commissioned Sidel Matrix Combi bottling technology at its facility in Dominica. Industrias San Miguel is engaged in production of soft drinks, fruit nectars and still water and in ...
Finland-based packaging solutions provider Huhtamaki has agreed to acquire India-based Ajanta Packaging to expand its operations in the region. Huhtamaki is paying €13m to acquire the manufacturer of pressure sensitive (PS) labels. ...
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South Africa-based labeling firm Advanced Labels has purchased and installed a new Nilpeter FA flexo press to expand its capacity to serve the self-adhesive labeling market. The investment in the Nilpeter’s FA flexo press also ...
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While conventional LEDs are used for backlighting, micro-LED and mini-LED technology has been used for self-emitting in displays of consumer electronics. Since each LED represents a pixel (increasing the number of LED wafers used), wafers ...
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Packaging firm Sonoco has agreed to acquire US-based Highland Packaging Solutions for about $150m in cash. Based in Plant City of Florida, Highland Packaging manufactures thermoformed plastic packaging solutions for fresh produce and ...
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Chinese multinational technology firm Baidu has secured first batch of licenses to carry out road tests for autonomous vehicles in Beijing. At the launch ceremony today, five cars powered by Apollo, the open autonomous driving platform by ...
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Flexible packaging solutions provider Scholle IPN has introduced what it claims to be the world’s first pre-made, sterilized spouted pouch system for aseptically-processed products. The CleanPouch Aseptic System features a new ...
ETPA Packaging, a Greece-based label printer, has installed a Gallus ECS 340 machine at its production site in Komotini, North Eastern Greece. Established in 1983, the Greek label printer is focused supplying self-adhesive labels, shrink ...
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UK-based printer Reflex Label Plus has invested in a FA flexo press from Nilpeter to meet growing customer demands for labels. The 14-unit FA flexo press, which is planned to be installed at the firm’s its Keighley site in England ...
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Japanese brewing and distilling company Suntory has developed FtoP Direct Recycle Technology for use in soft drink PET bottle preform production. The technology has been developed in collaboration with Japanese recycled materials ...
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