UK-based Kite Packaging has introduced new range of cardboard recycling shredders, which serve as an alternative to void fill products. The new shredding machines will help businesses to turn their waste cardboard into useful packaging ...
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Australian horticultural company Costa Group has agreed to acquire Lankester Avocado's orchards and packing operations in Queensland for an undisclosed price. The avocado business owned by the Lankester family cultivates the fruit in a ...
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UK-based Kite Packaging has introduced new do not stack cones, offering a instantly recognizable way of finding where products cannot be stacked on top of one another. The cones have been developed to immediately recognize where products ...
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St Merryn Foods, a subsidiary of The 2 Sisters Food Group, is mulling to shut down its retail packing operations at its Merthyr Tydfil meat processing site in the UK. The closure is expected to affect around 350 out of a total workforce ...
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Pro Mach subsidiary IPak Machinery is set to unveil the new TF-350B tray former machine at Pack Expo in the US. The event will take place from 6 to 9 November in Chicago. The new TF-350 family of tray formers produces different trays, ...
Fresh produce firm Produce World Group is planning to shut down its plants in Butterwick and Swinderby, in the UK. The move forms a part of the company's strategy to restructure the business in order to face market challenges. The ...
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The units give carton makers the capability to improve the efficiency, effectiveness and safety of their end-of-line packing operations. Boxpak Limited of Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland, was the first UK company to install the universal ...
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France-based bean sprouts producer Heng Sieng has installed two Ishida multihead weighers – CCW-R-214-WS-50-WP in order to automate its packing operations. According to Ishida, the new weighers deliver the necessary combination ...
Founded in 1941, the Carolina Blueberry Association is the oldest farmer-owned cooperative in North Carolina. Based in Garland, N.C., the co-op’s 24 growers bring fresh and frozen blueberries to stores across North America. In an ...
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When Norfolk vegetable processor Pinguin Foods set itself an aim to increase throughput by a fifth, it looked to Ishida to upgrade its ageing checkweighing set-up. Philip Chadwick finds out more about the installation Who Pinguin Foods ...
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Indian Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), the marketer of the Amul brand of milk and dairy products, is set to open INR1.6bn ($29.7m) robotic dairy facility in Virar, Maharashtra, India. The Virar facility, which will ...
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Aluminium tray maker The Nicholl Group has completed a restructure of its manufacturing network that has involved moving production to the UK from a German facility The business has ended production at its subsidiary Bachmann’s site ...
US-based Ossid, a division of integrated packaging products Pro Mach has unveiled a new weigh-price labeler, Ossid WPL1522. The labeler has been introduced for meat, poultry, dairy products, seafood, and produce packing operations that ...
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Calavo Growers has completed the expansion of its fresh avocado packing operations at its facility in Uruapan,Michoacán,Mexico,positioning the company to address the strong consumer demand in that produce category. Calavo Growers ...