Swiss supplier of carton packaging and filling machines SIG Combibloc plans to invest euro 36m at its South American packaging plant near Curitiba in Brazil’s Paraná state to install an extrusion line that will allow it to ...
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Chesapeake Limerick, part of Chesapeake’s Pharmaceutical and Healthcare division, will install the first Komori GLX 740RP carton printing press as part of a euro 4m investment program at the site in Ireland. According to Chesapeake, ...
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 ...
Turkish juice company Dimes is revitalizing its broad Juice, Nectar and Still drinks (JNSD) portfolio with Tetra Prisma Aseptic packaging to take on multinational competitors. According to a market research, there was a need to ...
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Pro Mach's ID Technology acquires Logmatix The ID Technology division of Pro Mach Inc. has acquired Logmatix Labels & Tags Inc., a provider of identification products, services and support. With the acquisition, ID Technology aims to ...
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US-based Southwest Ice Cream Specialties is voluntarily recalling ShurFine brand Creamery Select Dulce de Leche ice cream as it may contain praline pecan ice cream, which contains wheat, soy and pecans as ingredients, which are not ...
Indian company Goose has launched the new Goose ‘Tracker’, a new generation 2D serialization bar code for the drug industry. The tool integrates with existing applications to securely meet data management and printing needs for ...
Tags: Goose, 2D serialization bar code, drug industry, data management
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 ...
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Gilster-Mary Lee is recalling Chocolate Chunk Brownie Mix in the US as the product contains walnuts, which is not declared on the carton packaging. People who have an allergy or severe sensitivity to walnuts can experience serious or life ...
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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 ...
Danske Spritfabriker, which is now owned by France's Pernod Ricard, has succeeded in establishing a long-lasting Christmas tradition. For the past 31 years the Danish distiller has produced Aalborg Jule Akvavit, a Christmas aquavit ...
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The brief: Design agency Webb deVlam was tasked with finding an untapped technology to incorporate into the packaging for gin brand Bombay Sapphire. The firm needed to find something that had the ‘wow’ factor and settled on ...
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The deal, which was first announced in November, will see four Contego facilities – in Leeds and Gillingham in the UK, Hoogerheide in the Netherlands and Portlaiose in Ireland – transfer to the US-based cartons giant. It then ...
Tags: Graphic Packaging, Fair Trading, cartons, food packaging
US-based Babson Capital Management, a global investment management firm, has provided subordinated debt and made an equity co-investment to support River Associates Investments’ acquisition of a controlling stake in Rose City Printing ...
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Computerworld - The brouhaha over Apple replacing Google Maps in iOS 6 with its own mapping and navigation technology has not changed customers' minds about the iPhone 5, according to a ChangeWave Research survey. ChangeWave, which polled ...
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