American packaging company Sonoco has agreed to acquire Germany-based Weidenhammer Packaging for an amount of approximately $383m (€286m). Sonoco president and chief executive officer M Jack Sanders believes the acquisition will help ...
Amcor Rigid Plastics has joined 'The Recycling Partnership', an industry-funded program designed to increase residential recycling in the US. The program is also supported by Alcoa Foundation, American Chemistry Council, American Forest ...
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The Alliance for Beverage Cartons & the Environment (ACE) UK has welcomed the latest figures, which it said was equivalent to approximately 425,000 tonnes of cartons recycled, and also showed the total recovery rate was now 71% across the ...
The European Union Committee of the House of Lords has recently published a report, 'Counting the cost of food waste: EU food waste prevention', which looks at the issue of food waste and what steps can be taken to reduce it. The report ...
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Packaging firm Sonoco's rigid plastics facility in the US has secured LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Silver Certification from the US Green Building Council. Located in the Beauty and Home Care Campus of New ...
Sonoco is planning to invest $20m to construct a new high-speed composite can production facility in near Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, to produce packaging for snacks. The company is set to add three high-speed composite can production lines, ...
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Global packaging firm Sonoco has announced plans to invest about $20m in the establishment of a composite can production plant for snacks packaging in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The company will also add three additional high-speed composite ...
Sonoco today announced that it will raise the price for all paperboard tubes and cores by five to eight percent, effective with shipments in the United States and Canada beginning March 24, 2014. "This price increase is necessary to ...
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Packaging services provider Sonoco has unveiled a new biomass facility at its Hartsville plant in South Carolina as part of a $100m investment in the Darlington County compound. According to the company, the new boiler can generate about ...
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For the third consecutive year,Mohawk was honored as the most sustainable flooring manufacturer in the 2013 Southeastern Corporate Sustainability Rankings,the only annual assessment of sustainability practices among the region's ...
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The flexible packaging market is estimated to be worth $351bn by 2018, meaning that it is rapidly gaining market share from other sectors such as traditional rigid packaging. There have been many exciting new product developments which ...
The way in which consumers view and interact with packaged products is changing. With a growing focus on convenience and sustainability, traditional pack types are being replaced by innovative and flexible options designed to meet these ...
To do this well, Adobe Creative Suite can only take you so far. 3D technologies, colour management and accurate colour proofing are at the top of the list and Elmwood will continue to invest in these products in 2014 to strengthen the ...
Packaging products supplier Sonoco Protective Solutions has increased the prices of its packaging products to adjust inflationary input costs. The company has increased the price of on fabricated packaging assemblies containing EPS and/or ...
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Temperature assurance packaging provider Sonoco ThermoSafe introduced new Aeris Series of pre-qualified shippers for maintaining pharmaceuticals, biologics, vaccines and other high-value products between the temperatures of 2–8 ...
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