Berry Plastics Group has signed an agreement to acquire AEP Industries, a North American manufacturer of flexible plastic packaging films, for $765m including debt. Under the terms of the deal, each shareholder of AEP will receive either ...
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Noida, 24 August 2016: ‘Big bags’, as the name suggests are rather heavy duty packages used for bulk-packing items like building materials, flour, rice and pet food among several others. Uflex Limited apart from possessing ...
Researchers from the US Department of Agriculture are developing a packaging film made of milk proteins. The researchers presented their work at the 252nd National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS). Researchers ...
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India based global flexible packaging firm Uflex has launched the EL-1300 extrusion lamination machine designed to efficiently laminate very thin LDPE substrates to woven polypropylene and also to paper/any packaging film. Capable of ...
Organic food delivery company Abel & Cole has become the first firm in the UK to use the new transparent compostable packaging, which is developed by Finland's Plastiroll, for its vegetables. Plastiroll's new easily processable ...
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Toray Advanced Film, a sister company of Toray Plastics (America), has developed a new high-barrier, transparent, aluminum oxide-coated polyester film for retort pouches. The Barrialox SBR2 film has been designed to offer enhanced thermal ...
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SRF Limited is reportedly investing close to $58m in building a new biaxially-oriented polyethylene terephthalate (BOPET) film production plant in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh Of the total investment, around $40m will be provided ...
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Indian Dairy Manufacturing Company (IDMC), a subsidiary of National Dairy Development Board (NDDB), has opened phase II of its plastic pouch packaging film plant in Anand district in the state of Gujarat. The Rs370m ($5.46m) phase I of ...
Croatia-based specialist packaging producers EcoCortec has expanded its product portfolio with the introduction of new multifunctional , high-technology Corpak Static Dissipative Bubble film. Said to be the only bubble film in Europe ...
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Innovia Films and Bio4Pack have jointly developed a new bio based packaging laminate structure using former's NatureFlex flexible packaging film. The companies have used compostable cellulose NatureFlex NK Matt film as the outer layer for ...
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Innovia Films' NatureFlex flexible packaging film has been chosen by South African company KiddieKix to pack its cereals and dried fruit snacks. NatureFlex speciality packaging films are made from renewable resources such as wood-pulp ...
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Kraft Heinz has expanded the recall of Kraft Singles products as the issue with the packaging film may have larger impact than it initially considered. On Thursday, the firm recalled 335,000 cases as a thin strip of packaging film is ...
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German fine chocolate producer Vivani, which is an arm of EcoFinia, has selected NatureFlex films, developed by Innovia Films, to wrap its iChoc bars. iChoc, stated to be the latest range of Vegan Chocolate, was launched at BioFach and ...
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Researchers at the Stockholm University in Sweden have developed pacakging from films of zeolite and nanocellulose, that can remove the odor emanating from food items, such as durian. The films have the potential to absorb the gas ...
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The packaging ordered by Iceland features the new British sausage range. Ultimate managed the complete process, from order to print and lamination; delivering the film to Iceland’s sausage supplier for packing in only 10 days, ...