Several companies have announced moves to support clean production and ban harmful chemicals such as plasticisers or perfluorinated and polyfluorinated chemicals from their production processes. In particular, Aldi, Lidl, Rewe/Penny, ...
Tags: Chemical-Free Packaging, PVC, The Cantonal Laboratory of Zurich
Tekni-Plex has agreed to acquire Sancap Liner Technology, a manufacturer of cap and closure sealing materials to the global market, for undisclosed amount. Sancap is a producer of heat-seal, pressure-sensitive and gasket-sealing liners ...
Acquisitions are an almost weekly occurrence in Silicon Valley, but Apple’s next scoop could be closer to home. Apple is said to be in “advanced talks” to buy Imagination Technologies, a UK-based chip design firm partly ...
50 Strong, a manufacturer of innovative, high-quality American-made bike accessories and water bottles, is shaking up the hydration aisle with the introduction of Simply Better Bottles, a smart and stylish line of reusable water bottles ...
Tags: 50 Strong, Simply Better Bottles, Reusable water bottles
German packaging company Kisico has developed a cap which protects a package against counterfeiting through the use of a hologram. No additives, inks or labels are needed for the hologram as it has been fully integrated into the ...
Sainsbury's, Argos and Amazon also took home the gongs at the annual retailer awards earlier this week. Online retailer Shop Direct emerged as the big winner at this year’s Retail Week Awards 2016, taking the gong home in no less ...
Tags: Shop Direct, Retail Week Awards, Amazon, Argos
Global Headgear & Parts Import Trend from 2011 to 2014 Global headgear & parts imports showed a V-shaped growth in the four years and the import value was USD 7784 million, 7564 million, 7782 million and 8637 million. 2014’s ...
China Headgear and parts thereof exports trend from 2011 to 2014 From the picture above, China headgear exports had a tendency to increase during this period. In 2014, the headgear export value was USD 4545 million, 28.5% higher than ...
KHS is offering a multistage preform inspection under the name of Innocheck PPI (PET Preform Inspection) program. This recognizes faulty preforms, finds foreign objects in preforms and detects the tiniest damage. The Innocheck PPI ...
Greg Cameron Call for an “Upper Hunter Economic Development Corporation” (Newcastle Herald Editorial, March 9) were also made 20 years ago when the region wanted to participate in the benefits of a container terminal after ...
Tags: Upper Hunter, Newcastle
Lee & Man Paper Manufacturing ,one of the containerboard manufacturers in China, announced its annual results for the twelve months ended 31 December 2015. During the period, the Group recorded a total sales volume of 5.44 million tons, a ...
Packaging company Tetra Pak has released what it claims to be the first fully renewable 'gable-top' package in the US. The company's bio-based packages are made solely from renewable materials, defined as natural resources that can be ...
UK's natural spring water company Montgomery Waters has invested in second PET bottling line from liquid packaging solutions provider Sidel. Sidel's complete line includes compact blow-fill-cap Combi solution featuring a Sidel Matrix ...
Unilever is reducing the size of its ice cream offerings Cornetto, Ben & Jerry's and Feast by one third in an effort to bring all its single-serving ice creams to 250 calories. This move comes in response to the UK government's ...
China's Ministry of Commerce plans to grant crude import licenses to four independent teapot refineries in eastern Shandong province, namely Huifeng Petrochemical, Chambroad Petrochemical, Tianhong Petrochemical and Luqing Petrochemical, ...
Tags: crude import, teapot refineries