The UK's Wine and Spirit Trade Association (WSTA) has joined forces with trade bodies from across Europe to agree a ground breaking Brexit position paper. While politicians refuse to discuss the future trade relationship between the UK ...
TricorBraun WinePak, North America's leading wine bottle distributor, has hired Steve Grande as a Packaging Consultant, according to Andrew Bottene, Senior Vice President at TricorBraun WinePak. "Steve has a wide and varied base of ...
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Polymer giant Covestro is leading a consortium of 14 partners to study how plastics can be produced from flue gas from the steel industry in an efficient and sustainable manner. The investigation anchored by the materials manufacturer ...
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MPS, a provider of flexo and offset press solutions for label and flexible packaging printers, has launched its innovative ‘talk to me’ real-time connectivity platform at Labelexpo Europe 2017 in Brussels, Belgium. The ...
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Lamb Weston has completed a $200m expansion project at an existing potato facility in Richland, Washington (WA) to increase its processing capacity for manufacturing frozen French fries. The Richland facility, which was built in 1972, was ...
Sofradir of Palaiseau near Paris, France – a subsidiary of Safran and Thales that makes infrared (IR) detectors for aerospace, defense and commercial markets – says that its detector Tropomi is among the instruments launched on ...
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Siegwerk, a manufacturer of printing inks and solutions for packaging and labels, has agreed to acquire Netherland-based Van Son Liquids, a manufacturer of water-based flexo and gravure printing inks. Under the terms of the deal, Van Son ...
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Xeikon has ceased the Trillium liquid toner development project due to difficulties in promoting the product as a commercial product. The company has first showcased the liquid toner technology at the last year’s drupa event. ...
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US-based chemicals and plastics distributor Nexeo Solutions has signed an agreement with Yparex of The Netherlands to distribute the latter’s products in various countries in Europe. The agreement with the extrudable adhesive resins ...
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Songwon has commissioned a second thermoplastic urethane (TPU) production line, to become operational in the fourth quarter of 2017, as part of its global expansion strategy The company’s plant in Suwon, South Korea will be extended ...
Three key global plastics recycling organizations, The Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR), Plastics Recyclers Europe (PRE), and the European PET Bottle Platform (EPBP), have created a coalition aimed at coordinating efforts on testing ...
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US-based Ben & Jerry's said it will roll out glyphosate-free ice cream products following recent tests that revealed traces of a herbicide called glyphosate in several of its flavors. The ice cream manufacturer said that it will no longer ...
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Konica Minolta has introduced new AccurioLabel 190 full-digital toner press for the customers in Europe. The new press has been developed in collaboration with Danish firm Grafisk Maskinfabrik (GM) to replace bizhub PRESS C71cf that was ...
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Fourteen organizations from the paper cup supply chain have signed a deal to boost PE lined paper cup recycling in the UK. The agreement has been signed with Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment (ACE UK), which runs the ...
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Tate & Lyle, a global provider of speciality food ingredients and solutions, has unveiled plans to more than double capacity of its non-GMO MALTOSWEET Maltodextrin product line at its facility located in Boleraz, Slovakia. This major ...
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