Waste management company in the US, Republic Services has announced plans to invest nearly $19m to renovate its North St Louis County (Hazelwood) and South St Louis County (Bella Villa) recycling centers. As part of the enhancements, ...
Tags: St Louis Recycling, Waste management, single-stream recycling
Speech by the Governor Shandong Province has important historical status in the five thousand years' civilization of China. The Confucian culture that originated in Shandong has dramatic influence both in China and overseas. Sunzi ...
Tags: Shandong, business, introduction to Shandong, Shandong economy, survey
Whole Foods Market’s Rocky Mountain Region is planning to switch to 100% recycled paperboard deli boxes with a coating made from 40% calcium carbonate. The company is gearing up to launch two sizes of paperboard deli containers with ...
Tags: Recycled Paperboard Deli Boxes, calcium carbonate, plastics
People Daily Online reported that demand for steel in China is expected to rise 4.1% in 2013, as the nation's economic growth gets back on track. The 2013 China Steel Demand Forecast also predicted a decline in iron ore prices due to ...
Tags: 2013 China Steel Demand, demand for steel, Crude steel output
Japan-based Rengo’s overseas joint venture company Thai Containers Group has signed an agreement to acquire 72% of shares in Thai manufacturer of corrugated packaging, Tawana Container. The acquisition is set to expand the ...
Tags: Tawana Container, corrugated packaging, packaging supply system
A while back, I wrote another look at decluttering, from the moving-on-after-loss standpoint, to which fellow BuildDirect blogger Anabelle Bernard Fournier asked me how one stays on top of cluttering after The Big Purge. Well… it ...
Tags: cleaning, chaos, clean-house type, closets, clears up, healthy life
Irish paper and packaging group Smurfit Kappa has designed optimized corrugated board shelf boxes for Germany-based integrated solutions provider Hermes Fulfilment’s storage purposes. Hermes Fulfilment project manager for logistics ...
Tags: Corrugated Boxes, Hermes Fulfilment, integrated solutions
Photonic BioSystems has developed an oxygen-sensitive dye that can be incorporated into product packaging to evaluate the quality of food and beverages. When the dye is illuminated by a UV laser light, it produces a red emission. However, ...
Avery Dennison has unveiled a Prime Film Portfolio of BOPP and Machine Direction Oriented (MDO) films attached with the new S7000 adhesive. The portfolio comprises clear, white and metalized facestocks on PET liners. The adhesive delivers ...
Tags: Film Portfolio, PET liners, adhesive
CCL Label has announced the launch of a new shrink sleeve, Easy4opening paired with a tamper-evident seal. The easy-to-open sleeve covers the neck/top of bottles and comparable containers for food or cosmetic and hygiene products. ...
Tags: Shrink Sleeve, sleeve, comparable containers
International logistics service provider IFCO has announced the introduction of a suite of new Reusable Plastic Container (RPC) solutions that provide the company’s Fresh Market Advantage to its grocery retail partners. According to ...
Tags: Reusable Plastic Container, grocery retail, reusable containers
US-based Avery Dennison will launch a new portfolio of Fasson Wash-off labels that provide label converters with a replacement for any existing wet-glue product and are suitable for both glass and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles. ...
Tags: Labels for Bottles, Labels, polyethylene terephthalate bottles
Austrian provider of chemical and plastics solutions Borealis has announced the launch of a new polypropylene (PP) grade, Bormod BH381MO to support manufacturers of industrial packaging pails in meeting their growing sustainability goals. ...
Tags: Pail Producers, Pp Grade, chemical and plastics solutions
UK-based packaging supplier Invopak announced a distribution agreement with Polish company Cheko to stock its 100% oxy-biodegradable square and rectangle plastic buckets to recognize the industry’s need to take environmental issues ...
Saudi Arabian polypropylene (PP) producer National Petrochemical Industrial (NATPET) has launched two new polypropylenes for thin-walled injection molded food and non-food containers. According to the company, the new grades, Teldene ...
Tags: Containers, injection molded food, non-food containers