Mumbai-based private equity firm Kedaara Capital has forayed into the packaging sector by investing close to $32m (Rs 200 crore) in an unlisted folding cartons and paper packaging company, Parksons Packaging. The company said that it ...
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Finnish firm Huhtamaki has signed an agreement to acquire India-based privately-owned flexible packaging firm, Positive Packaging, in a deal worth €247m ($336m). Following the acquisition, Huhtamaki will merge Positive Packaging ...
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Food packaging and processing company Tetra Pak's Indian packaging material facility in Chakan, Pune has received Platinum certification from the Indian Green Building Council (IGBC). The packaging materials facility received the ...
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According to the Union Minister for State for Commerce and Industry E M Sudarsana Natchiappan, the global turnover of packaging is about $550bn . "The annual growth rate of this sector is about 15 per cent per annum and it is expected ...
Flexible packaging group Constantia Flexibles has completed the previously announced acquisition of 60% stake in India-based Parikh Packaging. The remaining shares, according to Constantia, remain with the Parikh family. Parikh ...
Indian packaging printing company Astha Packaging The platesetter has been developed for security printing applications especially to allow printing of fine lines easily for guilloches, microlines as well as micro lettering, printweek.in ...
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Global packaging company MeadWestvaco (MWV) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Gujarat government to invest Rs10bn ($183m) over the next three to four years. The latest investment will be used to expand the company's ...
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Indian designer and manufacturer of packaging materials Nichrome has opened its new research and development (R&D) facility in a bid to develop and set new standards to scale up the country's packaging industry. The new R&D centre ...
Global packaging company MeadWestvaco (MWV) has announced an agreement to acquire Ruby Macons, an Indian producer of corrugated packaging materials. Terms of the deal were not revealed. MWV chairman and chief executive officer John Luke ...
Indian packaging solution provider ACG Worldwide is set to invest Rs4bn ($72m) in order to establish a new manufacturing plant at Pithampur, Indore in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. The company is setting up its new plant in a ...
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The Indian Government said that this move will allow firms to conveniently switch to uniform norms for selling their products. With the revision, its now mandatory for FMCG companies to pack and sell products such as biscuits and milk ...
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The Indian Institute of Packaging (IIP) is organizing 'INDIAPACK 2013' during 28-31 January 2013. The IIP, an autonomous body working under Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India, has launched the four-day show at a press ...
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