Vietnam Beverage, ThaiBev’s domestic unit, has won a bidding to acquire 54% stake in Saigon Beer Alcohol & Beverage Corp (Sabeco) for $4.8bn. Sabeco is owned and under the authority of Vietnam's Ministry of Trade and Industry. The ...
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Tomra, a Norwegian firm engaged in the field of instrumentation for recycling solutions, has unveiled a new solution for separating single-layer PET trays from PET bottles. The solution improves the earlier capability of the ...
Tags: Tomra, PET Bottles
X-Rite’s eXact family of handheld spectrophotometers is now supporting new ISO standard for Spot Color Tone Value (SCTV). eXact allows printers and packaging converters to understand, control, manage, and communicate color through ...
Tags: ISO standard, spectrophotometers
Consumer packaging firm Crown has agreed to acquire Signode Industrial Group Holdings (Bermuda) from Carlyle Group for $3.91bn. The transaction is expected to add strong franchise business to Crown's existing metal packaging business. ...
Tags: Industrial Packaging, packaging
Clipper Teas, the ethical and organic tea brand owned by Wessanen UK, has partnered with like-minded chocolate producer, Seed and Bean, on a large scale on-pack promotion; available to all its retail partners nationwide. Over 300,000 ...
Continental and Huawei have successfully conducted field trials for testing the efficiency of Cellular Vehicle to Everything (C-V2X) communication standard in Shanghai. C-V2X is emerging as a promising wireless communication technology, ...
Tags: Continental, Huawei, Cellular Vehicle
Groupe Renault and Brilliance China Automotive have signed a joint venture (JV) contract to manufacture and sell light commercial vehicles (LCV) in China in three segments with three brands. The new JV, which will be known as ...
Tags: Renault, Light Commercial Vehicles
UPM Raflatac is launching a new visual sample book to showcase its premium label materials for wine, spirits, and craft beverages. Designed in collaboration with a team from SGA Corporate & Packaging Design led by chief designer Giacomo ...
Comexi, specialist in solutions for the flexible packaging industry, was awarded with an E-TECH Digital Award 2017 for its Comexi Cloud technology. These awards, given biannually by the Associació d’Empreses de Noves ...
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Flint Group has increased the prices of its packaging inks products due to incremental cost escalation forces. Further to announcements made in March 2017, it has become clear that the raw material markets for many components within Flint ...
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RPC Zeller Plastik Zell has developed a new closure for personal care and pharmaceutical applications. Part of the screw-on Classic range of polypropylene hinge tube closures, the new closure is available with a size of 25mm and matt ...
Berlin Packaging, the full-service supplier of glass, plastic, and metal containers and closures, has opened a 430,000ft2 office and distribution center in Fairfield. An impactful addition to the company's strong California presence, with ...
Tags: Berlin Packaging, plastic
European Plastics Converters (EuPC), a European trade association, has surveyed plastics converters across Europe to look at the current and future use of recycled content as well as incentives and barriers to its use. With high targets ...
Capitol City Produce Company has agreed to acquire the distribution operations of Table Fresh Foods, effective 30 December 2017 for an undisclosed price. Darin Arceneaux, COO of Capitol City Produce, said: "Table Fresh has a tremendous ...
Hybrid Software is set to exhibit the latest version of PACKZ, its professional PDF editor for the packaging and label markets, at Packaging Innovations 2018 event in the UK. The event will take place between 28 February and 1 March in ...
Tags: Hybrid Software, Packaging