US-based bioscience social enterprise Green Dot has developed a bioplastic which is a better alternative to the petroleum based elastomeric packaging materials, which will be showcased on 28-31 October at Pack Expo 2012 in Chicago. Green ...
Tags: Compostable Elastomeric Bioplastic, Packaging Applications, bio-resins
Plastic packaging products manufacturer in the US, AEP Industries has announced that the company, along with its Canadian subsidiary AEP Canada has agreed to acquire the films business from Transco Plastics Industries for about $5.3m. The ...
GE Capital, Corporate Finance has provided a $143m cash flow credit facility for Taghleef Industries, a UAE-based producer of plastic and packaging films. The financing was used by the company to acquire Applied Extrusion Technologies ...
UK-based Intec Printing Solutions has launched the new Intec Edge 850 label printer for label printing and packaging applications. Intec Printing Solutions managing director Ian Melville said the Intec Edge 850 will bring about a huge ...
Tags: printing, packaging, label printer, cost effective digital solution
Bulgaria-based packaging solutions provider Ideal is set to install the New Rapida 105 in July that it had ordered in March 2012. In addition to the six-color coater press, hybrid and UV capability and a film-printing package, Rapida 105 ...
Ishida,a technology company,has claimed that its iTPS snack packing system,which integrates both weighing and bag making technologies,provides higher efficiencies than those lines that utilise separate machines. The snack packing system ...
Tags: snack packing system, efficiencies, wastage
Chesapeake Raleigh has announced the installation of a new CTP system as part of a capital project for all US sites in a bid to do away with the usage of film by the end of 2013. Chesapeake Raleigh plant manager Dean Robinson said the use ...
Tags: Ctp System, Film, ship films
Food packaging company Sirane has opened a manufacturing facility in Turkey.About 10 years after opening its facility in Telford,UK,the company opened a second operation in Antalya,a port city in Turkey. Sirane managing director Simon ...
Germany-based Multivac has introduced its T 700 traysealer at Anuga Foodtec, the international trade fair for food and drink technology held from 27 to 30 March 2012 in Cologne, Germany. According to Multivac, the twin lane machine, which ...
Tags: Food Packaging Solutions, food and drink technology, packaging machines
Flexible packaging producer Colormasters is all set to open two new manufacturing facilities in Albertville, US. According to Colormasters, a new blown-film extrusion plant is under way on Smith Road, which will allow the company to ...
Australia-based Novasys Group has unveiled the new Hanatek FST, a range of film shrink testers that allow the shrink film percentage to be determined. According to the company, the testers have been designed to measure the effect of ...
Tags: Film Shrink Testers, linear thermal shrink, free shrink
French group Armor has announced the launch of a new wax ribbon AWR 8 for flat head thermal transfer printers. The product offers wide label material compatibilities, printing on uncoated rough papers, coated papers and also on synthetic ...
Tags: wax ribbon, printer, synthetic materials, rough paper, coated paper
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 ...
US-based packaging products firm Zuhlke & Associates has said fresh produce packaging is seeing more demand for recyclable packaging. According to the firm, 99% of all materials are manufactured from cleaned recycled materials, and the ...
Tags: packaging products, recyclable packaging, thermoforming services
The Australian Patent Office and the patent office of Mexico, Instituto Mexicano de la Propiedad Industrial, have granted new patents to Quick-Med Technologies' polyurethane-modified polycation, a new product of the NIMBUS technology family ...
Tags: patent, polyurethane modified polycation, antimicrobial