The Dow Chemical Company has partnered with national nonprofit, Keep America Beautiful, to award two $50,000 grants for organizations to establish Hefty EnergyBag programs in their communities. The program is an innovative approach to ...
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Kulicke & Soffa said it will participate at SEMICON West trade show, which is being held in San Francisco, California. The company will give a video illustration of its lithography solution, developed for advanced packaging at the trade ...
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Tyson Foods will invest $59.7m to expand its distribution center in Pottsville, Pennsylvania which would create more jobs, improve efficiency and support its growth plans. The project, which will begin this summer, includes construction ...
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Smurfit Kappa’s SupplySmart service has reached 50,000 supply chains, taking optimisation of packaging to a new level. The industry-leading service uses evidence-based analytics and insights, to work with businesses to benchmark ...
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PolyOne has acquired North American color and additive materials producer Mesa for an undisclosed sum. Established in 1990, Mesa manufactures both solid and liquid colorant technologies, which can be used in a range of end markets such as ...
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France’s new ecology minister Nicolas Hulot has announced that the country will ban the sale of petrol and diesel-powered vehicles by 2040. The announcement is part of the country’s commitment to Paris climate agreement. It ...
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Campbell Soup has agreed to acquire organic food manufacturer Pacific Foods of Oregon for $700m in an all cash deal to expand its footprint in the rapidly growing health and well-being categories. Based in Tualatin, Oregon, Pacific Foods ...
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Budweiser has released a new summer packaging lineup of bottles and cans inspired by local breweries of the US. This new packaging style, as per the brand owned by Anheuser-Busch, was inspired by 12 local breweries. From now on 11 ...
Henkel has completed the acquisitions of Darex Packaging Technologies business and the Sonderhoff Group Darex is based in Cambridge, MA, USA and supplies high-performance sealants and coatings for the metal packaging industry around the ...
Screen has launched two new game-changing digital label presses for high-end labels and food packaging. The company said it will debut new inkjet presses Labelexpo Europe 2017. The two new digital label presses Truepress Jet L350UV+ and ...
Comexi, a machinery supplier in the flexible packaging industry, continues to strengthen its presence in the US, Canada and Southeast Asia. Recently the group has reinforced its Service and Technical Assistance Department (SAT) in these ...
Volvo has said that every new car it launches from 2019 will feature an electric motor, describing the move as placing electrification at the core of its future business. The move will mark the end of cars that only have an internal ...
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Finnish packaging company Huhtamaki has agreed to acquire International Paper’s foodservice packaging operations in China for €15m. The acquisition will include two manufacturing units in Shanghai and Tianjin, which employ ...
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GTI Graphic Technology has donated a MiniMatcher-4e to The Sonoco Institute of Packaging and Graphics at Clemson University. The MiniMatcher-4e is a desktop color matching booth with a 14.25″ H x 24″ W x 16″ D viewing ...
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Aston Martin is now offering its DB11 with a 4.0-litre twin-turbocharged V8 engine. The new 4.0 litre, V8 engine is a slightly reduced version of the original 5.2 litre V12 engine. Yet, it is claimed to deliver 503 bhp, with 675Nm of ...
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