Tetra Pak has upgraded its packaging material plant in Ponta Grossa, Brazil to meet its products’ demands in domestic and export markets. The €65m upgrade will increase the plant's packaging capacity by 70% to 13 billion ...
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Nestle Pure Life, the 1 bottled water brand in the U.S. by volume, today announced the expansion of its product portfolio with the introduction of Nestle Pure Life Exotics Sparkling Water, a line of unsweetened sparkling water with unique, ...
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The Alliance for Beverage Cartons & the Environment (ACE) UK has welcomed the latest figures, which it said was equivalent to approximately 425,000 tonnes of cartons recycled, and also showed the total recovery rate was now 71% across the ...
The recycling of beverage cartons in Europe has reached 42% in 2013, according to new data provided by the Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment (ACE). Compared to 2012, it represents a 3% rise, while the total recovery rate, ...
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Belgium-based packaging company Van Genechten Group has acquired folding carton producer in Russia, Ost-Print. According to Van Genechten, the acquisition, which is approved by the Russian Anti-Monopoly body (FAS), takes effect ...
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New Zealand businessman Graeme Hart is considering $5bn sale of drink cartons manufacturer SIG Combibloc Group, people known with the matter said. Goldman Sachs Group has been hired by Hart's packaging conglomerate, Reynolds Group ...
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Tetra Pak has announced plans to invest €36m over a period of three years in its packaging material plant in Izmir, Turkey, to complete a €60m technology upgrade project at the plant. The proposed investment is said to be in ...
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You know that carton packaging 'tells' a consumer that your ready meal or packaged meat is superior quality. You've baulked at using it because the carton sleeves have to be applied by hand, and this would slow down your production process. ...
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The gift carton is made of Iggesund Paperboard's Incada 235 g/m2 paperboard and the conversion is by Le Sanglier, which specialises in gift cartons for champagne. The foil lamination is by API. Even the bottle is specially produced for ...
Polymer additive technologies provider Addivant announced that its WESTON 705 liquid antioxidant has secured the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for food contact applications. Following the approval, WESTON 705 antioxidant, ...
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Atlas Holdings portfolio company ASG announced that it has acquired Poland-based beauty and personal care folding carton business Bydgoszcz from MeadWestvaco (MWV). ASG intends to use the assets of Bydgoszcz operation to expand its ...
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Graphic Packaging’s European subsidiary has completed the previously announced acquisition of the UK-based food and healthcare packaging company Benson Group, for about $165m. Announced in February, the acquisition is claimed to ...
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Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Graphic Packaging is one of the largest producers of folding cartons, specialising in coated-unbleached kraft, coated-recycled boxboard multi-wall bag and specialty packaging, and the acquisition has ...
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Stora Enso positions itself as the global rethinker of the biomaterials, packaging, paper and wood products industry. Its goal is to keep innovating solutions based on renewable materials for consumer goods and industrial packaging ...
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WONKA, maker of the world’s most imaginative sweets, is proud to announce its latest innovation: WONKA Peel-a-Pop frozen treats. The dessert pops look like and peel like bananas, but in true WONKA form, the peels are deliciously ...
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