The Association of International Metallizers, Coaters and Laminators (AIMCAL) bestowed its Product of the Year Award on Graphic Packaging International, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia, for a microwaveable bacon package for Embotits Espina, a ...
Tags: AIMCAL, Bacon package, Graphic Packaging International
Rondo-Pak has developed a folding box with a ground-breaking tamper evidence feature that already surpasses future first-opening verification security requirements (mandatory from 2016 pursuant to Directive 2011/62/EU). The folding box's ...
Tags: folding carton, folding box, box
Board and paper packaging solutions provider Edelmann has bagged the Pharmapack Award for its phial packaging for homoeopathic medicinal products from Weleda. Edelmann received award for its folding carton concept. The award is the third ...
Digital color printing technology company Xeikon is all set to demonstrate the Xeikon 3030 in a roll to roll configuration at Propak Africa 2013, to be held from 12 to 15 March at the Expo Centre, Nasrec, Johannesburg, South Africa. The ...
Tags: basysPrint, printing technology, printing
Folding carton printing and converting company Printed Specialties has selected Epicor to replace its existing estimating software system with the Epicor AVP. The US-based company, which offers retail packaging and packaging services to ...
Profit after tax and before significant items was up 5.7% to $322m for the six months up to 31 December 2012. Amcor managing director and chief executive Ken MacKenzie said: “The first half result represented a record underlying ...
Tags: Tobacco Packaging, Specialty Folding Carton Operations
Australian packaging company Amcor has announced its agreement to acquire select printing assets of AGI-Shorewood’s (ASG) Tobacco Packaging and Specialty Folding Carton Operations for $115m. The acquired business has plants or ...
BOBST North America will exhibit its new folding carton equipment technological advancements and service innovations at the IADD*FSEA Odyssey Show, which will be held from 1-3 May 2013 at the Nashville Convention Center in Nashville, ...
Tags: Bobst, Folding Carton Equipment, Packaging
Luxembourg-based Flint Group has announced the launch of new offset UV ink series suitable for folding carton and commercial printing applications. According to the company, the new Arrowstar Plus UV 8000 inks have been designed for ...
Tags: folding carton, commercial printing applications, print jobs
UK-based Atlas Converting Equipment has announced that it will provide a 'next generation' Titan SR9-DT Dual Turret slitter rewinder to CPC Packaging, part of the French CPC Group, at its CPC Cotentin production facility in Normandy, ...
Pulp and paper company International Paper (IP) has announced plans to shutdown its No 2 paper machine and associated equipment permanently at the Augusta, Georgia mill in the US by the end of February 2013. According to the company, the ...
Tags: coated paperboard, Coated Paperboard business, paper company
The US-based paper and packaging firm said that it completed a license agreement with Smart Planet Technologies to use this new technology to reduce plastic used in coated paperboard products. The company’s coated paperboard ...
US-based Presstek has announced that Wausau Container, a folding carton converter specialist, has added a Presstek 75DI digital offset press to its production portfolio. Wausau Container president Chuck Plier said the company has filled ...
Austrian flexible packaging group Constantia Flexibles has completed the acquisition of 100% of Globalpack in Mexico. The parties have not disclosed the purchase price of the transaction. Constantia Flexibles CEO Thomas Unger said, "With ...
Tags: flexible packaging, Constantia Flexibles, acquisition, Globalpack
Packaging solutions provider Graphic Packaging has completed the previously announced acquisition of A&R's European Beer and Beverage packaging business, A&R Carton for euro 26m. The combination of Graphic Packaging's European packaging ...