Esko has collaborated with a range of industry partners at this year’s Labelexpo Europe event in Brussels, Belgium. The company announced collaborations to offer services ranging project management, design and prepress to flexo ...
US-based poultry producer Simmons Prepared Foods has announced an investment of $300m to build a new chicken operation facility in Benton County, Arkansas. Operations at the new chicken processing plant, located between Decatur and ...
Sun Chemical has introduced new range of digital coatings for the label, narrow web and packaging markets. The company is exhibiting the new SunEvo digital coatings at this year’s Labelexpo Europe event in Brussels, Belgium. ...
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Honda Foundation (a public-interest incorporated foundation created by Honda Motor Co Ltd’s founder Soichiro Honda and his younger brother Benjiro Honda) says that the Honda Prize 2017 will be awarded to Kyoto University professor ...
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State University of New York (SUNY) Polytechnic Institute says that associate professor of nanoengineering Dr Woongje Sung has been selected to receive $750,000 in federal funding from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to develop silicon ...
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Paper and packaging solutions provider WestRock has unveiled plans to construct a new corrugated box plant in Porto Feliz, a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo.The facility will meet increasing demand from the ...
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Protective Packaging is donating 15,000 moisture barrier bags to the Salvation Army for use in hurricane relief efforts across the Gulf Coast, Florida and the southeast. These bags are military-grade, moisture barrier bags designed to ...
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Chicken producer Pilgrim's Pride has agreed to acquire JBS’ British poultry unit Moy Park for $1.3bn to expand its portfolio of prepared foods. By adding Moy Park’s operations in the UK and Continental Europe, Pilgrim's Pride ...
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Nestlé has agreed to purchase US-based Sweet Earth to enter plant-based protein market. Sweet Earth produces products ranging in plant-based proteins like wheat-based seitan, tofu as wells as legumes such as lentils, chickpeas and ...
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Sappi said it will showcase its complete line-up of speciality and packaging grades at this month’s Pack Expo Las Vegas in the US. The company's products and solutions will target packaging companies, brand owners, converters, ...
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Massachusetts-based Packaging Partners has opened two new facilities in Dominican Republic. The facilities opened by the American packaging company in the Caribbean country are located in Santiago and San Pedro. Packaging Partners ...
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Grupo Alucaps Mexicano has invested in new Sacmi CCM64MB press, which will be used to manufacture water and CSD caps. The new 64-cavity CCM press allows to produce two differently designed caps by using the same die. Featuring advanced ...
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Seaboard Triumph Foods (STF) is set to begin commercial operations at its new pork processing plant in Sioux City, Iowa from 5 September 2017. STF said that the new facility will make use of robotics and other technologies to supply a ...
Kingsmoor Packaging has installed Atlas Copco’s GA90 VSD compressor in an effort to accelerate the production capacity and enhance energy efficiency. Somerton-based Kingsmoor has been into designing and manufacturing of thermoformed ...
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TricorBraun WinePak, a subsidiary of TricorBraun, has issued a statement in conjunction with the evolution of the wine packaging industry. For the past 35 years, TricorBraun WinePak has been a driving force in the wine packaging industry. ...
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