DISCLAIMER: UBM Canon is the parent company of Packaging Digest. The 12th edition of Pharmapack Europe, Feb. 13-14, 2013, Grande Halle de la Villette (Paris), will welcome more than 3,000 visitors from all over the globe and around 280 ...
Tags: UBM Canon, Packaging, Pharma packaging
Australia-based Pro-Pac Packaging has announced the acquisition of the business and assets of packaging consumables supplier Start Food Tech (SFT) for an undisclosed amount. Following the acquisition, SFT business will operate as a ...
Tags: SFT, packaging, packaging consumables supplier, acquisition
Advanced packaging solutions supplier Rexam Personal Care has collaborated with L’Oreal to create a compact jar for the new Visible Lift Repair Absolute make-up product from L’Oreal Paris, which is launched in the US. Rexam ...
Tags: Rexam, L'Oreal, compact jar
T.H.E.M.,the exclusive North American representative for Sanko Machinery Co.,recently introduced the FP500 and Zero1 machinery lines to attendees at Pack Expo in Chicago,IL on October 28-31. MARLTON,NJ,November ...
Tags: T.H.E.M, Sanko Machinery, Packaging Options
Helicap is a new carton closure that is a one-step twist, resealable cap, according to Tetra Pak. It is currently available in the UK with the Tetra Pak Brik Aseptic one litre Slim Carton. The Rubicon one litre juice drink range will be ...
Tags: HeliCap, carton closure, packaging solutions, packaging
Italian flexible packaging solutions provider Gualapack has announced the launch of its new closure BrickCap, which has three features including security, distinctiveness and sustainability. Designed to hold all sorts of food products ...
Tags: flexible packaging, Gualapack, closure BrickCap, packaging
Packaging solutions supplier Kenmare will promote Metabolix's Mvera B5008 compostable film grade to its European customers, starting 2013, as part of an agreement. Kenmare director Francesco Tognato said the company looks forward to ...
Tags: compostable film, Packaging solutions, single use bags, compost bags
Glass container supplier Beatson Clark has announced that its new euro 5.4m white flint furnace is fully operational. With a daily capacity of about 200t of glass, the furnace gives the company in Rotherham, UK the same size melting area of ...
Tags: Beatson Clark, operations, white flint furnace, Rotherham
Contract pharmaceutical company in the US Patheon has sold its global secondary clinical packaging and clinical distribution services business to Bellwyck Packaging Solutions for an undisclosed sum. Patheon chief executive officer James ...
Tags: Patheon, clinical packaging, clinical distribution, Canadian company
US-based Dow Chemical Company, a performance packaging business, will display its portfolio of new packaging solutions at PACK EXPO International 2012 on 28-31 October in Chicago, Illinois. At PACK EXPO, it will introduce a new laminating ...
Tags: Dow, packaging business, packaging solutions, PACK EXPO
US-based robots and autonomous mobile solutions provider Adept Technology has entered into an agreement to sell 8,000 shares of its Series A Convertible Preferred Stock to affiliates of Hale Capital Partners for $8m. The net proceeds from ...
Tags: Adept Technology, Hale Capital Partners, packaging business
US-based manufacturer of primary batteries Energizer is all set to launch its new child-resistant packaging for coin lithium batteries, which has been designed to reduce the occurrence of ingestions of batteries by children and the ...
Tags: primary batteries, Energizer, packaging
Global consumer packaging group Rexam has concluded the previously announced sale of its High Barrier food container business to a Silgan Holdings’ subsidiary for $250m. The food container business of Rexam provides thermoformed ...
Tags: Rexam, packaging, food container
The global market for packaging machinery is projected to reach $52.9bn by the year 2018, according to a new report by Global Industry Analysts (GIA). The worldwide economic uncertainty notwithstanding, the high-performance packaging ...
Tags: packaging machinery, global market, GIA
US-based Consolidated Container Company (CCC) has announced its proposal to buy all of the assets of Roffe Container, a plastic container manufacturer in Moorhead, Minnesota, US. CCC, which develops and manufactures rigid plastic ...
Tags: CCC, Roffe Container, US