DS Smith Plastics is set to open a new rigid packaging manufacturing facility in Romeoville, Illinois, US. The company intends to start production at the new rigid packaging facility in the last quarter of this year. DS Smith will use ...
Tags: Smith Plastics, Rigid Packaging
Oclaro Inc of San Jose, CA, USA (which provides components, modules and subsystems for optical communications) has begun volume production of 100G 40km pluggable solutions in compact QSFP28 transceivers that support the new ER4-Lite ...
Smurfit Kappa has produced 150th automatic Bag-in-Box filling line machine for the liquid and semi-liquid industry. The automatic web filling line, which was used for Bag-in-Box and Pouch-Up products, was manufactured by Smurfit ...
The Ontario Government is helping pork processor Conestoga Meat Packers to expand local production and bring 170 new jobs to Waterloo Region. The government is investing up to C$5.3m ($4.35m) as part of its C$2.7bn ($2.2bn) Jobs and ...
Tags: pork processor, Meat
The Small Form Factor Pluggable Double Density (SFP-DD) Multi Source Agreement (MSA) Group has completed the initial hardware specification and drawings for the SFP-DD pluggable interface designed to enable high-speed, high-density ...
Tags: pluggable interface, hardware
Kaiam Corp of Newark, CA, UA (which makes optical transceivers for hyperscale data centers) has announced general availability of the XQX5000-series of QSFP28 100G-CWDM4 transceivers based on its LightScale2 platform. The product is ...
Tags: optical transceivers, packaging
Creative Edge Software plans to launch the iC3D v5.0 packaging design software at this month’s Labelexpo Europe label event in Brussels. In version 5.0 of iC3D, five major new features have been added by the software firm to expand ...
Linx Printing Technologies has appointed a second distributor in Pakistan to help meet demand for its extensive range of equipment in key markets such as snacks, meat, foods, pharmaceuticals, personal care and cables. Scalesmen Weighing ...
Tags: Linx, Linx Printing
Butler Automatic, the inventor and global leader of automatic splicing solutions, announces an expanded sales team to focus on market growth in the packaging sector, expanding its team in North America, and Europe, the Middle East and ...
Bobst is set to unveil new automated print production and finishing system at this year’s Labelexpo Europe event in Belgium. The event will take place between 25 and 28 September in Brussels, At the event, the company will present ...
Tags: Bobst, Flexible Packaging
Food processing, packaging and weighing equipment manufacturer Heat and Control has opened a new manufacturing facility in Chennai, India, which has a manufacturing area of more than 11,800m2. Building on a foundation of 35 years ...
LiquiGlide will showcasing its patented technology at the Coatings Trends & Technologies (CTT) conference, which will take place between 14 and 15 September at the Westin Lombard Yorktown Center in Lombard, Illinois. The company will also ...
Tags: LiquiGlide, Coatings
Protective Packaging is donating 15,000 moisture barrier bags to the Salvation Army for use in hurricane relief efforts across the Gulf Coast, Florida and the southeast. These bags are military-grade, moisture barrier bags designed to ...
Tags: Protective Packaging, Packaging
Evatec Ltd of Trübbach, Switzerland (which makes thin-film deposition and etch processing equipment for advanced packaging, power device, MEMS, optoelectronics, wireless communication and photonics applications) is setting up its own ...
Tags: Evatec, advanced packaging
The 100G Lambda Multi-Source Agreement (MSA) Group has announced their intent to develop specifications based on 100Gbps per wavelength optical technology. Under the MSA, 22 participating companies are addressing the technical challenges ...
Tags: Nokia, Microsoft, Optical Links