HB Fuller, a US-based formulator, manufacturer and marketer of adhesives, has added Flextra Fast SF8700/XR1000 to its Flextra Fast laminating adhesives range. The new adhesive is claimed to offer better cure time to fill safely with food, ...
Tags: HB Fuller, Food Packaging
HB Fuller has announced the addition of Flextra Fast SF8700/XR1000 to its family of Flextra Fast laminating adhesives for flexible packaging converting. The new adhesive system is claimed to offer better cure time to fill safely with ...
A cross-functional team of 10 managers from resealable-closure company Zip-Pak recently completed an intensive 18-month global packaging study. Zip-Pak's goal in conducting the study was to openly observe the packaging landscape and the ...
Tags: Packaging, Retail Packaging, Global Retail
Labeling, packaging materials and solutions provider Avery Dennison Label and Packaging Materials has launched thin PET23 liner for labeling applications. At 23 microns thick, it is said to be leaner and faster than conventional glassine ...
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The paper cup is one of the most common containers we encounter every day. Yet, as with many of the seemingly simple packages we routinely use, the best forming machines to make paper cups and paperboard canisters use advanced ...
Avantium, a renewable chemicals company, and plastic converter specialist Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner have announced a joint development agreement for the development of PEF (polyethylene furanoate) bottles After The Coca-Cola Company and ...
Tags: PEF Bottles, Plastic Converter, Coca-Cola
Avantium, a renewable chemicals company, and ALPLA Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH, one of the world's leading plastic converters, have announced their Joint Development Agreement for the development of PEF bottles. After The Coca-Cola Co. and ...
Tags: PEF Bottle, Packaging, Coca-Cola
Synthetic diamond materials firm Luxembourg-registered Element Six (part of the De Beers Family of Companies, and co-owned by Belgian materials group Umicore) has acquired the assets and intellectual property of Group4 Labs Inc of Menlo ...
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Transparent and translucent ceramics are on the verge of being put to industrial use as new optical materials that offer great potential. As part of the publicly funded research project OptokeraMat, SCHOTT Research and Development has laid ...
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Revenues for South Korea-based LED firms have been rising due to the introduction of affordable LED direct-type TVs and lighting products since 2012. Digitimes Research expects strong performance from Korea LED firms in 2013. Digitimes ...
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After the supply shortages of commodity bi-oriented polyester (BOPET) thin films in 2010, the global BOPET film industry has done its best to ensure global supplies will not dry up again - or has it? PCI Films Consulting's latest review of ...
Cromex is all set to distribute NatureWorks’ Ingeo fibers to its customer base of thermoformers, film extruders and injection molders in Brazil. The Brazilian color masterbatches and plastic additives distributor will supply the ...
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Xilinx Inc of San Jose, CA, USA, which provides all-programmable field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), systems-on-chip (SoCs) and 3D ICs, and Japan's Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd are collaborating to reduce capital expenditure (CapEx) ...
Tags: SEI, Electrical, Electronics
Hewlett-Packard (HP) has produced personalized labels on its Indigo WS6000 series Digital Presses for Coca-Cola’s campaign ‘Share a Coca-Cola’, which has been designed to help the company engage with its consumers in 32 ...
Posted by Lisa McTigue Pierce, Executive Editor -- Packaging Digest, 5/16/2013 6:31:56 PM DuPont celebrated the silver anniversary of its global packaging awards program Thurs. night, May 16, granting top honors to U.K.-based design firm ...
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