Plastic bottle recycling in the US has increased by 6.2% to reach around 2.8 billion pounds in 2012, according to a new report released by the Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR) and American Chemistry Council (ACC). ...
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To increase shelf appeal and consumer interest for its new addition to the Malibu family, France-based beverage manufacturer Pernod Ricard looked to Eastman Chemical Company and Embrace copolyester when creating labels for Malibu Red, a rum ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Packaging Design
North America is the world's largest consumer of packaging. Since a brief dip in 2009, the North American packaging market has recently been growing steadily. Although market sentiment is still cautious in the region, the North American ...
North America is the world's largest consumer of packaging. Since a brief dip in 2009, the North American packaging market has recently been growing steadily. Although market sentiment is still cautious in the region, the North American ...
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Royal DSM, the Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company, reported a third quarter EBITDA of €342 million compared to €270 million in Q3 2012. This improvement of 27% was realized despite an ongoing challenging macro-economic ...
When Google Apps arrived in 2006, it stood on the cutting edge of Web-hosted email and collaboration suites for businesses, a bold pioneer clearing a path in the new, wild frontier of enterprise cloud computing. Seven years later, ...
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Soraa Chief Technology Officer Mike Krames recently ressponded to LED Magazine article's claims that the company's GanN-on-GaN MR16 emits large quantities of UV rays. Below is Krames blog entry on the company website: With the ...
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Clariant performance well on target after solid third quarter Sales from continuing operations in Q3 2013 grew 2% in local currencies and were 3% lower in Swiss francs, at CHF 1.443 billion, down from CHF 1.489 billion in the same period ...
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Empresas Polar, a leading Venezuelan food and beverage manufacturer, has broken new ground with the commercial launch of the first ambient stored yogurt in Venezuela. The non-refrigerated pourable yogurt, called MiGurt, is packaged in an ...
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Resilient flooring has grown from 13% to over 20% of the flooring market on a square footage basis over the last decade. In the last five years, it has been the fastest growing category, fueled in part by its frequent specification in ...
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BASF India Limited today celebrated the launch of its precious metal-based fine chemical catalysts production plant and product development laboratory at the Company's operating site in Mangalore, India. The plant is BASF's first precious ...
According to a new report from Frost and Sullivan, the Indian automotive coatings market has witnessed growth over the past two to three years due to growth of the automotive industry, both in the new and used car segments. Increased ...
Amcor Rigid Plastics has supplied a new aseptically filled, 750g barrier polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottle to Venezuela-based food and beverage manufacturer Empresas Polar for the launch of its pourable yogurt. The barrier PET ...
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Honeywell announced it will establish a new manufacturing campus in Zhangjiagang, China, to support growing demand in Asia for energy technology and advanced materials produced by its Performance Materials and Technologies (PMT) business. ...
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The supply of recycled material is not the issue; demand for recycled material has to be created by innovation in the sector. I recently presented a selection of the packaging-related outputs of BFF's work with Defra to develop a UK Soft ...
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