Saudi Arabia-based chemicals firm Sabic has added PP- Ultra Melt Strength (UMS) resin to its global foam portfolio. The new generation of melt strength polypropylenes, Sabic PP-UMS has a melt strength of more than 65cN with improved ...
Europac Group has exhibited its packaging solutions at this year’s Europack Euromanut event in Lyon, France. At the event, the company has exhibited packaging items, which are targeted at the consolidated heavy duty sector. The ...
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A DS Smith Tecnicarton design makes it possible to transport, store and display high volume products such as carpets, blinds, rolls of artificial turf or fabric in a simple and secure way for all agents in the supply chain. A DS Smith ...
DS Smith’s plastics and extruded products division has showcased its polypropylene solutions at the Empack Porto event in Portugal. The event was scheduled between 20 and 21 September in Porto. At the event, the company has ...
Smurfit Kappa’s SupplySmart service has reached 50,000 supply chains, taking optimisation of packaging to a new level. The industry-leading service uses evidence-based analytics and insights, to work with businesses to benchmark ...
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Samsung SDI has completed the construction of an electric vehicle (EV) battery plant in Hungary. Samsung SDI President Jun Young-hyun hosted a completion ceremony for the state-of-art electric vehicle (EV) battery plant scheduled to open ...
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Petainer, a provider of high performance and sustainable packaging, has expanded its distribution footprint in the US with a new partnership with ProStar Distributing. ProStar will exclusively sell petainerKeg products, targeting ...
Tags: PetainerKeg, Craft beer market, Expansion, ProStar, Foodprint
The water levels on the Rhine hit critically low levels this week, which threatened to send the cost of transporting and handling a range of oil and chemicals even higher after several months of rising costs. Freight and logistics costs ...
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General Motors (GM) has received the first load of massive stamping presses for its $174m stamping facility, which is a part of the Lansing Grand River Assembly Plant in Michigan, US. The new presses, which will save about $14 million a ...
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Continental has reached an important milestone in its research project for the industrialisation of dandelion rubber in tyre production. In the autumn of last year, Continental presented the first test tyres in a limited series made from ...
IRL has announced the launch of a new edition of its regional title A Profile of the Central Asian Paint Industry. This fully updated report provides market data for 2013 and forecasts for 2018, and gives an overview of the paint industry ...
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Reusable passive packaging is an economic option and is preferred by the healthcare or pharmaceutical industry, according to a survey conducted by global provider of temperature assurance packaging Sonoco ThermoSafe. The 2014 survey was ...
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According to “China Procedurement Development Report”, and China social logistics costs in 2013 is more than 10 trillion yuan, taking 18% of GDP which is two times of 8.5% in America. It is showed that logistic cost is more ...
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PET and plastics packaging company Petainer has launched its new PET solution, the petainerKeg Linestar, at BrauBeviale 2014 in Nuremberg, Germany. The new solution features a redesigned outer shell which helps it to fit specifically on ...
Tags: PET and plastics packaging company, redesigned outer shell, Agriculture
Ascent Solar Technologies Inc of Thornton, CO, USA, which makes lightweight, flexible copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic modules integrated into off-grid applications and its EnerPlex series of consumer products, ...
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