Speaking to The Australian ahead of Amcor’s official opening of its Botany paper mill in Sydney, Garrard said the mill would provide a quantum leap forward for customers by offering them “innovative packaging solutions” ...
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Finnish paper company, UPM has signed an agreement on the sale of assets, part of the land of the UPM Stracel paper mill site with Blue Paper, the joint venture company of VPK Packaging Group and Klingele Papierwerke. According to the ...
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Automotive batteries supplier,Johnson Controls has opened a new $150m automotive battery recycling plant in South Carolina, US. The new Florence Recycling Center is expected to recycle 132,000 metric tons per year, or the equivalent of ...
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As food and beverage cartons become more common on grocery store shelves, they are also becoming more common in curbside recycling bins. In 2009, a group of carton manufactures joined forces as the Carton Council to increase carton ...
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UPM-Kymmene has started exclusive negotiations with the joint venture formed by a company from the VPK Packaging Group and Klingele Papierwerke on the sale of assets of the French paper mill Stracel. The takeover offer is subject to the ...
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Norske Skog, a Dutch paper products firm, has sold its paper mill Parenco in Renkum and recovered paper business Reparco to H2 Equity Partners, and cash worth €30m is expected to be released from the deal. H2 is expecting good growth ...
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South African packaging company Nampak has announced that the group revenue for the year ended 30 September 2012 increased by 12% to R17.6bn ($1.9bn). Revenue from the rest of Africa rose by 55% to over R2bn ($223m) with a contribution ...
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While solar power,wind power and tidal power grab the daily headlines,a vastly different green energy technology is quietly making real progress across the globe. Anaerobic waste water digestion technologies respond not only to industry's ...
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North American producer of kraft paper and corrugated products KapStone Paper and Packaging has announced plans to invest $29mn in the company's North Charleston, South Carolina paper mill in the US. According to KapStone, the investment ...
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UPM a Finland-based paper company has announced that the company is set to negotiate with VPK Packaging Group and Klingele Papierwerke for the sale of the assets and part of the land at its French Stracel paper mill. Both the companies ...
European corrugated giant Smurfit Kappa is set to invest £98m over three years in its Townsend Hook, Kent paper-making facility. The installation and commissioning of a five-meter, lightweight recycled container board machine is due ...
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Global packaging company Sonoco has announced the commercial availability of its radial crush tester, which simulates the pressures applied during the winding processes of rolled products such as plastic films and measures the radial ...
Canadian packaging products company Atlantic Packaging has announced plans to re-open its Whitby Ontario Mill in March 2013, which is the company’s second paper mill to open in the last six years. The mill, which was formerly a ...
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The Textile, Clothing and Footwear Union of Australia (TCFUA) will take its case to Canberra calling on the federal Government to reverse last week’s decision to slash $7 mill from a targeted program for retrenched workers in TCF ...
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US-based GreenBlue’s Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC) has released a report on the opportunities and challenges for using recycled fiber in packaging, after recognizing the growing interest in increasing recycled content in ...