US private equity firm Sun Capital Partners has received approval from the European Commission for its proposed acquisition of UK's Rexam Personal and Home Care Packaging Business for $459m. Rexam, which manufactures Red Bull and Pepsico ...
Tags: packaging for food, cosmetics, personal care packaging
Swiss pharmaceutical packaging machinery manufacturer Dividella has selected the linear modular L400 labeling system from self-adhesive labels and labeling systems manufacturer Pago. The system uses a PAGOmat 6/2A labeling head and ...
Irish paper and packaging group Smurfit Kappa has won the PPI award for the Eco Tray, a corrugated tray offering a green alternative to conventional polystyrene and plastic trays. According to the company, the 100% recyclable Eco Tray ...
Smurfit Kappa has announced that it has completed a deal to buy corrugated firm Orange County Container Group (OCCG) for $340m OCCG has operations in northern Mexico and the southern United States. OCCG employs 2,800 people (2,000 of ...
India-based Dynaflex has announced plans to invest Rs250m ($5m) in a bid to expand its security tamper evident packaging product manufacturing plant near Vadodara, Gujarat. According to Dynaflex, the latest investment will enable the ...
Tags: packaging, plant, packaging product, expansion
CHEP, a provider of managed pallet pooling solutions, has announced a new contract for shipping platform solutions with Del Monte Fresh Produce, a marketer and distributor of fresh and fresh-cut fruit and vegetables. CHEP has been the ...
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UK-based Linpac has developed a range of plastic retail-ready packaging (RRP), which is a fast-growing segment of the packaging market. Linpac vice president of innovation Joanna Stephenson said the new range has been developed to enable ...
Tags: retail-ready packaging, packaging market, demand for RRP
A Europe-wide life-cycle assessment conducted by Germany-based Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IFEU) has revealed that carton packs for ultra-high temperature (UHT) milk have a better environmental profile when compared to ...
Tags: Milk Carton, carton packs, milk packaging
A new survey commissioned by the UK-based Confederation of Paper Industries (CPI) Corrugated Sector has revealed that the food and beverage manufacturing industry is backing corrugated retail ready packaging (RRP). Corrugated RRP offers ...
Tags: Corrugated Packaging, Paper Industries, food and beverage manufacturing
Finnish paper company Stora Enso has announced plans to invest EUR1.6bn to build plantation-based integrated board and pulp mill in China, banking on growth in the Asian market. The mill site at Beihai city in Guangxi, for which ...
Canadian packaging company Cascades’ Norampac division has acquired Bird Packaging's converting and storage facilities in Guelph, Kitchener and Windsor in Ontario. The latest investment is part of Norampac's development strategy ...
Billerud Finland has secured approval from requisite regulatory authorities for the previously announced acquisition of UPM's packaging paper operations in the Finnish towns of Pietarsaari and Tervasaari for SEK1.2bn (€130m). As part ...
Indian designer and manufacturer of packaging materials Nichrome has opened its new research and development (R&D) facility in a bid to develop and set new standards to scale up the country's packaging industry. The new R&D centre ...
UK-based food packaging solutions firm Nicholl Food Packaging has revamped its range of aluminum foil trays for the fresh and convenience food sector with five new smoothwall variants. Smoothwall trays feature a smooth rim, so that trays ...
Tags: Trays, Smoothwall Line of Trays, food packaging solutions
Personal care products company Unilever has chosen packaging solutions provider Payne's Rippatape by for a new men's grooming multipack offer in Chile. The tape is being used on 20,000 promotional 'Total Protection' cardboard gift boxes, ...
Tags: packaging, grooming multipack, tape, boxes