North America is the world's largest consumer of packaging. Since a brief dip in 2009, the North American packaging market has recently been growing steadily. Although market sentiment is still cautious in the region, the North American ...
Tags: Packaging Market, Packaging, Printing
Empresas Polar, a leading Venezuelan food and beverage manufacturer, has broken new ground with the commercial launch of the first ambient stored yogurt in Venezuela. The non-refrigerated pourable yogurt, called MiGurt, is packaged in an ...
Tags: Pet Packaging, Packaging, Printing
Amcor Rigid Plastics has supplied a new aseptically filled, 750g barrier polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottle to Venezuela-based food and beverage manufacturer Empresas Polar for the launch of its pourable yogurt. The barrier PET ...
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The large wide-opening dome lid will be one of Karat's newest products to be released this autumn. Responding to a high demand, Karat will be one of the few U.S. manufacturers to supply wide-opening dome lids, which are ideal for parfaits, ...
The global glass market is expected to be the largest consumer and driver of soda ash business to 2018 and beyond. Global soda ash demand is expected to increase from around 55m tpa today to more than 65m tpa by 2018, while the capacity ...
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Bristol, Va.-based solution-dyed synthetic filament-based fiber manufacturer Universal Fibers Inc. has acquired the continuous filament bicomponent production assets of Johnson City, Tenn.-based bicomponent and customized fiber producer ...
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US-based packaging products manufacturer Karat has introduced new large wide-opening dome lid in the home-market. The new lids are claimed to be suitable for parfaits, ice cream floats, slushes as well as frozen yogurt with toppings. ...
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The National Assn. for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR) and The Assn. of Postconsumer Plastics Recyclers (APR) have announced the release of the "Report on Postconsumer PET Container Recycling Activity in 2012," which cites a 2012 U.S. ...
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China-based recycled polyester staple fiber products manufacturer JN Fibers Inc. will invest $45 million to set up a manufacturing facility in Richburg, S.C., to recycle used polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles into polyester staple ...
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Sistema JSFC, the largest publicly-traded diversified holding company in Russia and the CIS, announces that its subsidiary JSC United Petrochemical Company has signed a joint venture ("JV") agreement with Mexican company Grupo Petrotemex, ...
While the flexibility and durability of plastic PET bottles have made them popular with manufacturers and consumers, recycling these bottles has proven to be a challenge. PET bottles typically require dense shrink sleeve labels that often ...
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Holfeld Plastics has extended its product range with the launch of a new 30mm recycled polyethylene terephthalate (r-PET) deep burger tray. The new tray has been developed using about 85% recyclate in barrier materials APET or APET/PE in ...
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Taiwan's packaging machinery industry has been developed over the decades by local companies using skills and know-how learned from overseas, initially with the aim of replacing imports. The industry went on to become an exporter, and many ...
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Linpac Packaging, a UK-based food packaging manufacturer, has unveiled a hinged box Vertiwrap, which extends its new Freshware range for sweet and savory foods. Made from crystal clear recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET), Vertiwrap ...
Packaging successful adoption that contains recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) depends on minimizing contamination of the recyclate from caps, labels, inks adhesives and other sources in US. The first commercial product using the ...
Tags: rPet Packaging, Packaging