Pregis has announced the acquisition of the US-based protective packaging products manufacturer Surface Guard, for an undisclosed value. According to Pregis, the acquisition will add new protective film, cohesive material as well as ...
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Posted by Lisa McTigue Pierce, Executive Editor -- Packaging Digest, 4/29/2013 9:52:04 AM By Larry Dworkin, director, government relations, PAC-The Packaging Assn. EDITOR'S NOTE: Packaging Digest's recent webcast "Food Safety & ...
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The printed circuit board manufacturing industry has been growing at a rapid pace. Naturally, this has led to an abundance of manufacturers on the market today. However, there are only a handful of manufacturers that have truly evolved with ...
The worldwide capital equipment market fell 15% last year to $36.9bn from $43.5 billion in 2011, says SEMI. SEMI expects a flat to single-digit decline trend this year and a strong recovery in 2014. ...
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Flexible packaging materials manufacturer Rollprint Packaging Products has announced an investment of $1.25m on a new pouch manufacturing line for sterile medical and other applications. The new multi-configuration Ritemed 900 CHB machine ...
Finnish company Eltete TPM Engineering is all set to deliver PaperRoll-to-PaperPallet & automatic paper pallet assembly (APPA) technology to Nagoya in Japan. According to the company, the capacity of the plant, which will be delived in ...
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Increased spending in NAND and flash by Micron, LEDs by Philips and Osram, and continued investments by GLOBALFOUNDRIES will create new opportunities for equipment and materials suppliers in Southeast Asia. These trends will be explored at ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, semiconductor
The global semiconductor materials market decreased 2 percent in 2012 compared to 2011 while worldwide semiconductor revenues declined 3 percent. Revenues of $47.11 mark the first decline in the semiconductor materials market in three ...
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For many consumer goods and beverage companies, labels allowing customers to effectively interact with their brand, are considered the Holy Grail. Similarly, they are seeking solutions to allow their boxed products to communicate with the ...
Tags: Paper Labels, Packaging, Printing, Electrical, Electronics
X-Rite Inc. with its wholly owned subsidiary Pantone LLC has reached an agreement with ColorMetrix Technologies LLC to offer a seamless way for users of its VerifiedColor software to fully utilize the power of PantoneLIVE Color Libraries. ...
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Demand for recycled-content packaging materials continues to grow in the U.S. But the market and infrastructure for collecting used materials suffers somewhat from various limitations, whether they be financial, logistical or emotional. ...
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Cruising smoothly on the overwhelming response from its launch in August, 2012, Galleria Intima 2013 by the Intimate Apparel Association of India (IAAI) returns to the Grand Hyatt at Goa on the 23rd and 24th of August 2013. India's sourcing ...
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Toray Industries has announced a JPY3bn ($32m) investment in Asia to strengthen its vapor deposition capabilities for food packaging films. As part of the expansion plan, Toray Advanced Film (TAF) will introduce state-of-the-art vapor ...
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Global supplier of technology and services Metso is all set to supply grade conversion rebuild of Blue Paper's paper machine at its mill site in Strasbourg, France. The start up of the re-built machine is set to commence in the last ...
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Avery Dennison Label and Packaging Materials has unveiled a new pressure-sensitive label materials portfolio featuring ten facestocks and four adhesives that meet the design and application needs of craft beer market. According to the ...
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