UK-based flexographic printer and laminating company Parkside has announced plans to invest in a 100% secure waste management system provided by its partners Roydon Group. A shredding and compacting system has been installed and ...
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Packaging company Roberts Mart has invested £2.5m in a F&K 20SIX Central Impression Flexo Printing Press for its Aire Valley plant in the UK. The investment also included installation of a new three-layer co-extrusion line for Romar ...
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Paper and paper products manufacturer Sappi Southern Africa has updated and refreshed the packaging for Typek brand, which currently is available in red and white packaging. Sappi Southern Africa chief executive officer Alex Thiel said ...
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Investment AB Kinnevik has received regulatory approval for its previously announced agreement to sell its Korsnas packaging operations to Billerud for SEK2.7bn ($406m), to form a merged group called BillerudKorsnas. According to the ...
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Huhtam ki Oyj's Indian subsidiary, Paper Products has acquired 51% of the shares in Webtech Labels Private, which manufactures pressure sensitive labels to pharmaceutical customers, for about €7m. According to the Finland-based ...
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Sheffield Hallam University in the UK has secured more than €3m from the European Union to launch NEWGENPAK, a new group which brings together experts in sustainable packaging from across Europe. The new group will form to create the ...
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US-based Thoro Packaging has announced that it is converting to carbon neutral printing with the natureOffice programme and will offer customers the option to certify all print jobs as carbon neutral. The company has partnered with ...
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US-based Fishery Products International (FPI), a division of High Liner Foods has converted its corrugated case masters to kraft sustainable packaging made from 100% recycled fibers. The transition from traditional white paper packaging ...
Spanish firm SAICA has acquired Stirling Fibre Group, the UK-based independent provider of waste management solutions. The acquisition is expected to boost expansion of SAICA's Natur business in the UK. The latest acquisition is a part ...
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UPM Raflatac has announced the replacement of its 'Raflacoat Plus' paper with 'PEFC Raflacoat Plus', in line with its commitment to source paper products from sustainably managed forests. According to the company, the semi-gloss PEFC ...
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Producer of technical laminates and protective packaging materials Walki Group will invest in a new multi-colour flexographic printing machine in Poland to improve further the printing quality of its ream wrap products offered to Central ...
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US-based Northern Technologies International Corporation (NTIC), along with its Indian joint venture, Harita NTI has inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Indian conglomerate, ITC to develop and commercialise new biopolymer paper ...
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The packaging giant has launched its biannual sustainability update entitled Mission Possible (26 July). Tetra Pak has set itself ambitious targets to double the global recycling rate of its cartons from 20% in 2010 to 40% by 2020. ...
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The company, which is in the midst of restructuring its operations, said that the plant will close by the end of the first quarter of 2013. Cascades said the plant west of Montreal has about 155 workers, and about 60 of them will have the ...
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Louis Vuitton is to open'Cabinet d'Ecriture'Paris pop-up store with handwriting tools and luxury paper Paris'Cabinet d'Ecriture is Louis Vuitton's latest foray into the world of luxury writing instruments,handwriting tools,luxury paper ...
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