The recycling of rigid plastics, excluding bottles, climbed 13 percent in 2011 to reach at least 934 million pounds for the year, and U.S. consumers with local access to recycle all non-bottle rigid plastics shot from 40 percent to 57 ...
Tags: rigid plastics, bottles, containers
In recent years packaging manufacturers have faced greater competition from outside the UK, with countries such as Turkey increasing production capacity as it continues along its path towards full EU membership. This competition is only ...
Tags: Packaging Industry, Packaging, packaging manufacturers
Bangladesh readymade garment (RMG) accessory manufacturers are eyeing emerging markets, including Japan, South Africa, Russia and Myanmar, as there is a decline in exports of apparel accessories to the traditional markets such as the EU and ...
Tags: RMG, readymade garment, emerging markets
An upgraded dual bar-wrapping line at Datrex has more than doubled output of its life-saving maritime food bars. Datrex is one of the world's leading manufacturers and distributors of safety and survival equipment and supplies used in the ...
The Bangladesh Bank has extended Export Development Fund (EDF) loans to member mills of the Bangladesh Garments Accessories & Packaging Manufacturers & Exporters Association (BGAPMEA). “The EDF loans will be available also to ...
Tags: EDF loans, BGAPMEA members, garments
The slackening off in turnover during the course of the past year in businesses belonging to the German wood industry also continued during November 2012. Turnover declined by 1.5% to €1.365bn in this period. At -5.5% to €333.3m ...
Despite being confronted by high interest rates, local apparel accessories and packaging producers are efficiently supporting Bangladesh’s exports and economy as a whole, Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Md. Faruk Khan has said. ...
Tags: Garment Accessories, Bangladesh, Exports
Dhaka,the capital city of Bangladesh,is all set to host three synchronous international trade fairs,showcasing products like garment accessories,textile machinery,yarns and fabrics,from January 13,2013 onwards. The three concurrent ...
Tags: concurrent fairs, fabrics, textile machinery, Gapexpo
The difficulties in opening different types of packs are of far greater concern to most consumers than environmental criticisms such as perceived over-packaging. This is one of the findings of a major quantitative research study1 ...
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White LED with high light efficiency, long life, energy saving, environmental protection and other significant advantages of green lighting and information display has broad application prospects in the field. At present, the core material ...
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Director general of Export Processing Zone Administration (EPZA) W.G. Huang noted that export value, number of firms and employees all have grown in Taiwan’s export processing zones (EPZs), with revenues likely to hit historical high ...
After experiencing a boon in 2010, the weak LED market reaction in 2011 did not allow the global LED manufacturing production to grow as expected. Capacity utilization reached a low due to the fast capacity expansion and slower market ...
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Bangladesh Garments Accessories and Packaging Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGAPMEA) aims to achieve US$ 12 billion target in export of garment accessories by the year 2018. Mr. Safiullah Chowdhury, chief advisor of BGAPMEA, ...
Tags: Bangladesh, BGAPMEA, export, garment accessories, 2018
At the end of June 2012, Wrap launched the Hospitality and Foodservice Agreement with the broad aim of reducing food and associated packaging waste. But what does this mean for the foodservice packaging sector and what steps can be taken to ...
In June, the UK's pallet and packaging advisory association, Pallet Link, advised its members that the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) in China were intercepting export consignments from ...
Tags: pallet, packaging, Pallet Link, WPM