By launching JL Renew, Jersey Lomellina has chosen to offer a range of sustainable fabrics, all produced with a 100% recycled polyamide, deriving from post-consumer materials: fishing nets, rigid tulle, carpet fluff etc... saved from the ...
Nexxt Spine, a US-based manufacturer of spinal implants and instrumentation, has announced the introduction of its FACET FIXX screw system. During traditional or minimally invasive lumbar spinal fusion, the FACET FIXX screw system ...
Tags: spinal implants, Screw System
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 ...
Tags: Empresas Polar, Pet Bottle
The supply of recycled material is not the issue; demand for recycled material has to be created by innovation in the sector. I recently presented a selection of the packaging-related outputs of BFF's work with Defra to develop a UK Soft ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Plastics Recycling
A boroscope is an important and useful optical imaging and video device. It comes with a rigid tube, with an eyepiece on one end and an objective lens on the other end. The mechanism of the boroscope is simple. The objective lens forms an ...
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Following the successful world premiere of the Mercedes-Benz GLA at the IAA in Frankfurt, many customers are already eagerly anticipating the launch of the new compact SUV from Mercedes-Benz. Now the anticipation is being cranked up a ...
Tags: Mercedes-Benz, GLA
Shipments of bikes to U.S. retailers in September took a bigger dip than anticipated, down 4.9 percent in dollars and 11.9 percent in units compared to the same month last year, according to the BPSA Topline for Cycling RetailTRAK from ...
Tags: Transportation, bike
Bordeaux Digital Printink, an industry leader in developing, manufacturing and distributing high quality inks, coatings and solutions for a wide variety of inkjet technologies and applications, announced today a special give-away offer to ...
US-based rigid packaging supplier Silgan has completed its previously announced acquisition of all the assets of plastic closures producer Portola Packaging for $266m. The acquisition includes Portola's eight facilities that are operated ...
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US-based blow-molded plastic packaging supplier Consolidated Container Company (CCC) has signed a deal to buy all the assets of polypropylene containers manufacturer Shelburne Plastics. As part of the deal, Shelburne's plants will operate ...
Several printing systems and products from Agfa Pitman are making their first North America appearance at SGIA: Jeti TitanX FTR - A 122"-wide, high resolution, production-class UV-four- or six-color plus white inkjet printing system ...
BMW has called in its DTM championship-winning driver to help in an extensive round of chassis set-up and tuning for its upcoming BMW M4 coupe. Held at Germany’s Nuburgring Nordschleife circuit, the 2012 DTM champion, French-born ...
Tags: BMW M4, BMW M GmbH
The Dow Chemical Company’s Performance Packaging business announced today at the K 2013 fair in Düsseldorf, Germany, it is expanding its portfolio of DOWLEX Polyethylene resins with the addition of the DOWLEX 6001GC grade. This ...
Multi-material food packaging manufacturer Linpac Packaging has welcomed the European Food Safety Authority’s (EFSA) decision to give an official positive opinion regarding the super-cleaning process used in its factories in Spain, ...
Tags: food packaging, Multi-material
In simple words, fasteners literally hold industry together. These are very important because each component or machinery or vehicle needs these to hold it together. Fasteners are main components used in many sectors such as automation, ...