US-based Illinois Tool Works Group’s subsidiary ITW has announced its consent to acquire German packaging company The Meurer Group. Competition authorities are yet to approve the deal. The German company, which will retain its ...
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Among the highlights at EastPack will be two packaging awards: one well-established, one brand-new. The AmeriStar awards from the Institute of Packaging Professionals (IoPP) have honored the most innovative packages every year since 1945. ...
Mettler-Toledo Safeline has upgraded its Gravity Fall metal detector designed to remove metal contaminant during the production of powdered and granulated foods. The upgraded system features Mettler-Toledo Safeline's Profile search head ...
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Pharmavite, a US-based manufacturer of vitamins, minerals and other dietary supplements, has announced the official opening of its new manufacturing facility at the Northeast Opelika Industrial Park in Opelika, Alabama. The establishment ...
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Kawasaki Robotics has introduced a lighter and more compact delta arm robot to its Pick-Star Y Series range. The YS200N robot is designed for high-speed pick and place applications in volume production industries including food, ...
We may live and do a lot business in a virtual world today, but there's nothing like a little face time. EastPack, to be held June 18-20 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, will provide plenty of opportunities for ...
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German drug maker Boehringer-Ingelheim and Shanghai Zhangjiang Biotech & Pharmaceutical Base Development Co., Ltd. declared strategic cooperative agreement to build up the first Chinese biopharmaceutical base using mammal cell culture ...
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BSC Drukarnia Opakowan, the rlc | packaging group subsidiary, has expanded its facility BSC Pharmacenter in Poznan, Poland. BSC doubled the capacity at the Pharmacenter at the Poland site by investing around PLN18m (€4.3m) in the ...
Barcode, machine vision and lighting solutions provider Microscan has introduced the new AutoVISION product suite for companies in need of high-speed inline barcode verification. The new suite including compact smart cameras and machine ...
BASF is implementing its global “We create chemistry” strategy in Asia Pacific with a set of ambitious targets and a focus on sustainability. To achieve sales of €25 billion to customers in the region by 2020, BASF’s ...
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Second Genome has signed a microbiome drug discovery deal with Janssen Biotech to advance novel drug targets mediated by the bacterial ecosystem living within the human gut to treat ulcerative colitis. Under the collaboration, Janssen ...
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With suppliers of high grade components for conveying, the ultimate solution has been found where industries involved in pharmaceuticals, dairy manufacturing, bottling of beverages, bread manufacturing and others where manufacturing process ...
Inspection equipment firms Loma Systems and Lock Inspection Systems have outlined their strategy after officially unveiling the partnership at the Total Processing and Packaging show Loma, which is owned by US company ITW, acquired Lock ...
Germany-based global chemical company BASF is planning to invest €10bn with a strategy to focus on sustainability in the Asia Pacific region by 2020. BASF is said to collaborate with the customers in the selected markets to discuss ...
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company said it will start using bio-polyethylene bottles (“Bio-PE bottles”) as the primary packaging container for the hypertension treatment product, Azilva. Made from plastic derived from ...
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