UK-based RPC Group will acquire French closures and dispensing systems manufacturer GCS Group for €650m in a bid to bolster its position in European plastic packaging market. RPC proposes to fund the acquisition by combining ...
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The amount of natural gas used by UK power stations to generate electricity neared an 11-month high Monday as unfavorable weather conditions for renewable generation technologies led to higher gas-fired generation, figures from the National ...
Clariant is planning to set up a new healthcare packaging manufacturing plant in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. To be built in Cuddalore, the proposed plant will see around CHF10m ($9.7m) in investment. It will cater to the growing ...
Austrian plastic packaging firm Alpla Holding is to expand its market position in Africa by acquiring a production site in Egypt from Argo. The acquisition is scheduled to take place at the end of this year whose financial terms are not ...
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M&H Plastics, part of the RPC Group of companies has recently completed a new family of packages for Champneys. Champneys opened its doors in 1925 as the UK's original health spa. Since then, every single Champneys product is tried and ...
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China accounts for nearly half of the world's luxury consumption so far this year, but Chinese consumers do most of their shopping outside of the country, a Beijing-based consultancy said in a report on Tuesday. Chinese are expected to ...
Arkansas-based Tyson Foods is planning to close two of its prepared foods manufacturing plants as part of its efforts to enhance overall performance and streamline operations. The company's plants that will discontinue operations are ...
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It was a full house for the Packaging Council of Australia's Australian Packaging Design Awards presentation in Melbourne on 12 November. Brand owners, pack designers and packaging suppliers involved in the design projects selected as ...
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Rigid packaging specialist Berlin Packaging has acquired Diablo Valley Packaging, a move that bolsters the company's glass packaging supply chain to better serve the food, beverage, and wine & spirits markets. The deal comes on the heels ...
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Milacron Holdings, a industrial technology company serving the plastics processing industry announced its Klear Can technology has undergone and passed an important food safety test and is undergoing additional testing with a number of ...
Tekni-Plex is planning to begin the production of its Tri-Seal coextruded closure liners in newly acquired Ghiya Extrusions' facility in India. With the addition of new production capacity in India, Tekni-Plex will be able to better serve ...
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Sonoco, one of the largest diversified global packaging companies, today reported consolidated financial results for its third quarter, ending 27 September 2015. Sonoco president and CEO Jack Sanders said: "We are encouraged by the ...
Clariant, a specialty chemicals company, has announced that its healthcare packaging manufacturing facility in Belen, New Mexico, has achieved ISO 15378:2011 certification for products manufactured for healthcare applications, including ...
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RPC Group subsidiary M&H Plastics has packaged Asda’s new range of own brand shampoos in PET contour bottle on behalf of Potter & Moore. The PET contour bottle comes with an oval flip-top that is made out of polypropylene. ...
Flexible packaging and filling systems provider Rapak of North America has launched Strivo, the twist lock bag-in-box connecting system for dispensing liquid foods. The simple connect, twist and firm lock functionality of the new ...
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