Amcor has acquired South African flexible packaging giant Nampak Flexibles and with it, market leadership in the region. In combination with Amcor’s current business in Africa, the closing of this deal firms up Amcor's leadership ...
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Amcor and serialisation business services firm Kezzler are offering cloud platform-backed, full service advanced packaging serialisation with MaXQ. MaXQ offers brand owners unique identification codes printed on every pack. The dynamic ...
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Amcor has delivered Method Products its first liquid laundry detergent to be packaged in 100% PCR PET. The sleek, transparent container is used for its new 4X concentrated detergent product in a 53oz polyethylene terephthalate (PET) ...
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US-based paper packaging company International Paper is said to be exploring a takeover bid of over €8.1bn for Irish packaging giant Smurfit Kappa. Sky News quoted a source as saying that International Paper was considering an ...
Australia’s packaging company Amcor will be acquiring the internal tobacco packaging operations of Souza Cruz in Brazil for $30m (BRL96m). Majority-owned by British American Tobacco, Souza Cruz is considered to be one of the ...
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Australia-based packaging solution provider Amcor has announced the acquisition of South African packaging company Nampak Flexibles for $22m (ZAR250m). Amcor specialises in supplying a range of rigid and flexible packaging products to ...
Australian packaging company Orora has secured a new supply agreement with dairy group Fonterra where the former will supply multi-walled dairy bags to Fonterra’s New Zealand operations. Orora will also construct a AU$20m ($15.25m) ...
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Agua Enerviva has launched its naturally-energising beverages in lightweight, hot fill containers that have been designed by ScorCreative at Amcor. Containing only 10 calories and 3 grams of sugar per 8oz serving, Agua Enerviva claims ...
A new printing technology dubbed ‘Sunshine’ has been introduced from the stable of Amcor’s folding carton business, a division of global packaging major Amcor Group GmbH, which offers a highly reflective metallic effect ...
The Recycling Partnership, a collaborative, industry-funded effort designed to boost residential recycling in the US, has announced its first public grant to the city of Columbia, South Carolina. The funding will support the Recycling ...
After 10 years at the helm of Amcor, Ken MacKenzie has decided to retire from the position of managing director and chief executive officer, Amcor chairman, Graeme Liebelt announced on 22 January. “I believe after 10 years in the ...
Packaging solution providers Amcor has entered into an agreement to acquire Chinese flexible packaging business Zhongshan Tian Cai Packaging Company for $34.04m (RMB211m). The company said that the purchase price represents 7.1 times ...
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Flexible packaging such as plastic bags, confectionery wrappers, frozen food bags and pouches makes up nearly a third (32%) of consumer plastic packaging in the UK, however virtually all of this 556,000 tonnes produced annually ends up in ...
The two-year REFLEX project, funded by the UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK, aims to create a circular economy for flexible packaging – from confectionery wrappers to detergent pouches – by involving the whole supply ...
Few companies in the UK have come together to start work on a two-year project called 'Reflex,' with the hope of significantly improving the recyclability of flexible packaging and diverting more of it away from the landfill. The project ...
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