US-based buyout firm Lindsay Goldberg will sell German packaging company Weener Plastik for approximately $500m (€400m), as per a report by Reuters. Reuters quotes that rival buyout firms including CD&R, Ardian, Charterhouse and ...
Tags: Weener Plastik, packaging firms, Agriculture
Processing and packaging equipment supplier MG America will launch its new Kartos I/100 Cartoner in the North American market post its showcase at Pack Expo conference. The cartoner offers a wide format range and is specifically designed ...
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Nampak has opened its energy-efficient glass furnace in Gauteng, South Africa, with an investment of around $0.11bn (R1.2bn). The new furnace, which is the company's third, will increase the plant's capacity to 295 000 tons per annum and ...
Tags: Nampak, Third Glass Furnace, Printing
To celebrate Polaner All Fruit becoming Non-GMO Project Verified earlier this year, the brand has re-launched its website, www.polanerspreads.com, with a fresh look and enhanced functionality. In addition, Polaner has launched a consumer ...
Tags: Polaner, Revamped Website, Food
Capsicums are increasingly being used in some of the world’s most innovative food products launched in Australia, according to recent market research commissioned by the Australian vegetable industry. Following a recent domestic ...
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As a membership warehouse club, everything we sell at Costco has to be of better value than our competitors in the marketplace,” Costco MD Patrick Noone told the audience at a Packaging Council of Australia Industry Leaders Forum in ...
Tags: lower the price, Costco, Packaging
Recycling is great when it works. To make it work, recyclable glass has to be separated from all the other material that ends up in recycling bins. In the UK, glass manufacturer, Ardagh, has just signed a fifteen year agreement with ...
Ardagh has three glass manufacturing plants in Yorkshire, and is partnering Reuse to increase the volume of cullet, which has so far boosted recycling for clear glass by 12%. West Yorkshire based Reuse is one of the UK’s leading ...
Tags: clear glass, Ardagh Glass, Recycling Push, Packaging
High Supply, an American distributor of child resistant CRREO bags, jars and vials, has invested an undisclosed amount to expand its warehouse space to cater to the growing demand for child resistant packaging in the retail and medical ...
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US-based rigid packaging company TricorBraun has commenced Indian operations with an aim to cater to the growing need for rigid packaging products in the second largest Asian market. The company has opened TricorBraun-India in Mumbai, ...
US-based private equity firm CHS Capital could be eyeing to sell its rigid packaging supplier TricorBraun, which is valued at $1.3bn, including debt. TricorBraun, which is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, is one of the largest ...
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Grolsch is launching a new way of drinking lager in Romania – ‘The Jar’. The novel and creative packaging will attract experience-seeking consumers and build on the popularity of mason jars on-trade, Canadean predicts. ...
UK-based rigid plastic packaging provider RPC Group has selected Kyriba to provide its Kyriba Enterprise SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) treasury management system. The system will enable RPC to improve its cash visibility, reduce ...
Tags: RPC, Kyriba Enterprise SaaS, Packaging
Congress government in the US has introduced a new bill, 'Ban Poisonous Additives Act of 2014', to ban the usage of toxic bisephenol-A (BPA) in food packaging, citing its role in disrupting hormones especially in elderly, pregnant women, ...
Grolsch is launching a new way of drinking lager in Romania – ‘The Jar’. The novel and creative packaging will attract experience-seeking consumers and build on the popularity of mason jars on-trade, Canadean predicts. ...
Tags: Grolsch, The Jar, Agriculture