Packaging firm Cascades has acquired four containerboard packaging plants in Ontario, Canada from Coyle family. The firm has also acquired 33% ownership stake in Tencorr, a manufacturer of sheet stock for box producers, as well as ...
Tags: Packaging, containerboard
Oncap has acquired US-based IntraPac International from funds managed by CI Capital Partners for an undisclosed sum. Based in Mooresville, North Carolina, IntraPac designs and produces specialty rigid packaging solutions such as including ...
Tags: personal care, household products
CSafe Global has secured approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for its new RAP ULD container. Part of the firm’s active and passive cold chain packaging solutions, the new CSafe RAP temperature controlled container ...
Tags: RAP ULD container, container
Tetra Evero, which is claimed to be the world's first aseptic carton bottle, has made its US debut at Gossner Foods, a contract manufacturer in Logan, Utah. The lightweight and recyclable Tetra Evero aseptic package, which has already ...
Tags: Tetra Evero, Beverage
LyondellBasell has agreed to purchase a 50% stake in Netherlands-based plastics recycling firm Quality Circular Polymers (QCP). The remaining 50% stake in the plastics recycling firm will be owned by French water and waste management firm ...
Tags: plastic products, food packaging
UK-based Qualvis Print & Packaging has invested in two Xerox-TRESU digital printing and coating lines to meet the demand for shorter packaging run-lengths in the food and personal healthcare sectors. The firm purchased the two digital ...
Tags: Digital Printing, Coating Lines
Wasdell Packaging has unveiled plans to develop a new 70,000ft2 pharmaceutical facility in Dundalk, Ireland. The new facility will be developed at self-contained site situated at the IDA Dundalk Science and Technology Park in Mullagharlin ...
Tags: Wasdell Packaging, Packaging
Philips Lighting says that it has now delivered 1 billion LED lamps and luminaires as part of its commitment to the ‘Global Lighting Challenge’, the Clean Energy Ministerial campaign to deploy 10 billion high-efficiency light ...
SPTS Technologies Ltd of Newport, Wales, UK (an Orbotech company that manufactures etch, PVD and CVD wafer processing solutions for the MEMS, advanced packaging, LED, high-speed RF on GaAs, and power management device markets) has won an ...
Tags: SPTS, GaN-on-SiC, LED
Ride-hailing company Lyft has secured approval to start trial of its self-driving vehicles in the US state of California. The approval allows Lyft to join the likes of companies such as Google’s Waymo, Uber, Apple, Ford and ...
Tags: Self-Driving Cars, Apple
Pratt Industries has designed a new packaging for Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams, as part of the ecommerce inside print packaging series. Jeni provides ice creams in 32 company-owned scoop shops across the US, in addition to shipping ...
Tags: Ice Creams
Specialty chemicals producer Clariant is planning to revise its ColorForward trend-watching platform, designed to help forecast colors for use in plastics products and packaging. In collaboration with its Masterbatches business unit, ...
Tags: Specialty chemicals, chemicals
Amazon introduced “Frustration-Free Packaging,” an invention designed to reduce waste and delight customers with easy-to-open, 100% recyclable packaging, ten years ago this holiday season. Frustration-Free Packaging ends ...
US-based NGS Printing has invested in a new D3 L-3200 cutting system from Zund, a developer, manufacturer, and distributor of multi-functional digital cutters. The Zünd D3 L-3200, which is the second cutting system to be installed by ...
Denmark-based Danish Crown through its subsidiary ESS-Food has agreed to buy 70% stake in Overberg Food Distributors, a South African foodservice business, for an undisclosed price. Overberg Food Distributors, which is based in Cape Town, ...
Tags: Danish Crown, ESS-Food