Smurfit Kappa’s Shelf Smart service is revolutionising the impact of Shelf Ready Packaging (SRP) as a shopper marketing tool driving sales increases of up to eight percent for leading Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) brands, ...
WACKER has expanded the service portfolio at its technical center in Mexico City, Mexico. The local facility now comprises state-of-the-art applications technology and test equipment for polymer dispersions needed as binders for ...
BASF will expand its emollients and waxes production capacity with a new plant at its site in Jinshan, Shanghai. The investment, complementing the current production of wax esters, emulsifiers and primary surfactants in Jinshan, will ...
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Emery Oleochemicals LLC has earned the Certified Biobased Product Label granted by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), for six products from the company’s EMEROX range of renewable-based polyols. This certification, ...
Tags: USDA, polyols, polyurethane foams
Nobel Prize laureate Professor Robert H. Grubbs, Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, was the honored speaker at the Axalta Distinguished Lectures Series sponsored by Axalta Coating Systems ...
Votorantim Metais and its affiliate U.S. Zinc has announced key changes to the company’s leadership team. Rodrigo Daud will serve as chief commercial officer for Votorantim Metais and Tracy Baugh has been promoted to president of U.S. ...
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PPG Industries today announced that it has completed a $27m expansion of its San Juan del Rio, Queretaro, Mexico, coatings manufacturing facility. The company marked completion of the project, which adds 115 new jobs, with a grand-opening ...
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Bunge North America, the North American operating arm of Bunge Limited, has acquired Whole Harvest Foods, a refiner and packager of expeller pressed commercial cooking oil. Whole Harvest Foods products, which including frying oils, pan ...
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Butler Automatic, the inventor and global leader of automatic splicing solutions, announces that its SP1 Series Automatic Film Splicer is ideally suited towards food and beverage packaging applications. The SP1Automatic Film ...
Multi Packaging Solutions, a print, packaging, and labels provider for the spirits, branded consumer, healthcare, and multi-media markets helped Luxco launch the first premium tube for its brand portfolio. Limestone Branch Distillery, ...
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Metal packaging products supplier Crown Holdings is to increase beverage can capacity at its Osmaniye plant, in central southern Turkey with the installation of a new production line. The expansion plans come in response to increasing ...
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PPG Industries has completed the expansion work worth $27m at its coatings manufacturing facility in San Juan del Rio, Queretaro, Mexico. Work under the expansion included the addition of space for production, product development and ...
H.B. Fuller has introduced a new adhesive solution that will promise manufacturers 20% volume savings on typical applications. The new Advantra 8790 adhesive has been designed to cater to customers' requirements for high-performance ...
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Mead Johnson has launched its Enfamil range of products in a new 32 fluid ounce ready-to-use plastic bottle. The bottle comes with an easy-to-grip shape. It ensures accurate proportions due to the formula being premixed, the company ...
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British alcoholic beverages company Diageo is including nutritional information on the packaging of its whisky brand Crown Royal to provide readily available facts to consumers. Crown Royal is the first alcohol beverage brand to ...