Glass container manufacturer Owens-Illinois (O-I) is buying Mexican company Vitro's food and beverage glass container business for around $2.15bn, to gain a competitive position in the Mexican glass packaging market. O-I will acquire ...
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Wellness Natural Pet Food will be using Velcro’s Press-Lok closure for packaging its premium TruFood line. Wellness TruFood is the newest line of pet food recipes for dogs and cats with nutrients of whole prey protein, raw ...
UK-based Connect Packaging has invested more than £1.5m in purchasing equipments to enhance its potential in the shelf-ready packaging market. The company based in Essex has purchased new printing equipment including a ...
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European packaging company Faerch Plast has acquired Cambridgeshire-based Anson Packaging that specialises in producing thermoformed packaging solutions for the UK market. Although the details of the transaction were not revealed, ...
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Installed at its Pudahuel production facility, both machines are producing lightweight PCO 1881 screw caps for the second-largest Coca-Cola bottler in Chile, helping to cut carbon emissions across the value chain and reduce carbon footprint ...
Germany’s Huber Packaging group has acquired the Crown’s chemical-technical tinplate packaging facilities in Switzerland (Aesch), Finland (Helsinki), Great Britain (Liverpool) and France (Rouen) for an undisclosed amount. ...
U.S. demand for adhesives and sealants is forecast to increase 2.8 percent per year to 6.4 billion pounds in 2019, valued at $12.8 billion. A turnaround in construction activity, combined with the expanding use of adhesives and sealants ...
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Tetra Pak is planning a push in the food packaging market with its cartonboard packaging offering. Tetra Recart was the first retortable carton package which enabled filled product to be sterilized within the package. A direct ...
Electronic packaging involves the use of engineering and other technologies to incorporate in-built security and protective features in the packaging of products. The use of electronics in packaging is gaining importance as it reduces ...
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Producer and supplier of paper and packaging products Sappi North America has launched LusterCote, a superior C1S paper for labels and other related end use applications to cater to global consumer demand. Sappi will produce LusterCote at ...
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More and more, people are understanding that the planet needs everyone to manage drink packaging responsibly. Sustainability is a major trend identified by both TechNavio in "Global Beverage Packaging Market 2015-2019" [December 2014] and ...
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Vidrala, through its subsidiary Inverbeira Sociedad de Promoción de Empresas, has completed acquisition of Encirc, an Irish manufacturer of glass containers for the food and beverage industries, for €408.6m. Encirc ...
FLEXcon has introduced a new PVDC-coated film, known as optiFLEX RESEAL BARRIER Clear, to address the growing demand for resealable food packaging. The new offering, which will serve as a barrier against moisture to maintain food ...
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Thomas Blaige, chairman and CEO of Blaige & Co., will lead-off activities on Thursday, February 12 at ICE USA 2015 with a keynote address titled, “Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way: Global Consolidation in Flexible Packaging.” ...
India-based Rajhans Enterprises has acquired a five layer extrusion line for film production to extend its operations to the flexible packaging market. The company has been expanding its operations in the past few months and one of its ...
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