US-based bioscience social enterprise Green Dot has developed a bioplastic which is a better alternative to the petroleum based elastomeric packaging materials, which will be showcased on 28-31 October at Pack Expo 2012 in Chicago. Green ...
Tags: Compostable Elastomeric Bioplastic, Packaging Applications, bio-resins
Adept Technology has announced that it will be showcasing its Adept Quattro s650H robot in China. According to the company, the robot can be integrated within high-speed automated packaging applications, to help increase productivity and ...
Tags: high-speed automated packaging applications, productivity, food safety
Finland-based liquid packaging systems producer, Lamican Oy, has developed a new ambient recyclable packaging system for liquids. LamiCan 250ml, which offers up to one-year shelf life without the need of any costly product refrigeration/ ...
Swedish food processing and packaging company Tetra Pak has completed a €42m (S$67m) investment to upgrade and expand its operations in Singapore, which includes a new printer and building. According to Tetra Pak, the investment has ...
Tags: Tetra Pak, investment, operations
Swedish food processing and packaging company Tetra Pak has announced the sale of more than 20 billion of its packages globally during 2012, which carried the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) label. The label certifies that the paperboard ...
Tags: FSC-label Carton Packs, packaging material, forest management
The Indian Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved the mandatory packaging of 90% of the production of foodgrain and sugar in bags made of jute packaging material during the current jute year 2011-12. The decision exempts sugar ...
Tags: Jute Packaging, packaging material, mandatory packaging
Pregis has unveiled its foam-in-place packaging technology for the European market that is powered by its IntelliPack solution meant to act as cushioning system for automotive parts, valves, areospace and marine products and various tools ...
Switzerland-based packaging company Tetra Pak has opened a new Coconut Knowledge Centre(CKC)and has completed expansion of its facilities at its packaging material plant in Singapore with an investment of$42m. The company said that the ...
Tags: CKC, packaging material, market, technology
Toppan Printing has developed a laminated packaging material that uses biomass polyethylene film (biomass PE) with a thickness of less than 40μm. The flexible packaging material, a new product in the company’s series of BIOAXX ...
Tags: Laminated Packaging Material, flexible packaging material
The 3rd annual RISE 2012 Conference held October 23-25,2012 at the Hilton Baltimore in Baltimore,Maryland,brought together the global nonwovens/engineered materials value chain for two days of thought-provoking,boundary expanding ...
Scotland-based Henry Schein Animal Health, a veterinary products and services wholesaler, has chosen woolcool packaging material for temperature-sensitive vaccines for cold chain logistics benefits. The woolcool material is touted as a ...
Tags: Wool Packaging, woolcool packaging material, cold chain logistics
California-based compostable packaging material producer, Be Green Packaging has partnered with engineering and construction firm, The Austin Company to undertake the development of its new $7.3m manufacturing facility in Ridgeland, South ...
Gaoger Machinery in China has presented the new "Eco|Save|Pack" packaging which will be produced on the new CUT 120 horizontal cartoning machine. The new packaging protects the goods from transportation hazards due to storage in ...
Tags: New Packaging, pack style, mono-packaging
Be Green Packaging, a compostable packaging material producer in the US, has finalised the purchase of the manufacturing plant, where it will house the compostable packaging facility. Be Green said it plans to open a manufacturing plant ...
Tags: Green Packaging, Manufacturing Plant, packaging material
The packaging giant has launched its biannual sustainability update entitled Mission Possible (26 July). Tetra Pak has set itself ambitious targets to double the global recycling rate of its cartons from 20% in 2010 to 40% by 2020. ...
Tags: Tetra Pak, Carton Recycling Rates, recycle, packaging