UK glass packaging specialist Beatson Clark has introduced 70ml miniature Vimto bottles for the Middle east market. The British soft drink firm has been available in the Middle East for nearly a century, and sales surge during the Muslim ...
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Swedish firm Iggesund Paperboard is set to showcase its Invercote and Incada paperboard grades for luxury packaging at this year’s Xeikon event. The company will exhibit high-end heavyweight substrates at Xeikon Café ...
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UK master papermaker James Cropper is showcasing Genuine UK Black paper in China at LuxePack Shanghai. The new paper can be used in a range of applications, including luxury goods, packaging, printing, advertising brochures and annual ...
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Packaging and paper producer Mondi is set to invest in its Mondi Simet plant near Pozna, Poland to strengthen its heavy duty corrugated capabilities in Europe. The investment will see installation of a 2.8m corrugator with three single ...
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Mac Papers named John Mark Russell as the new general manager for the Company’s Greenville branch. Russell has relocated from Charlotte, where he most recently served as a Mac Papers account manager, for the position. In his new ...
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Oak Furniture Land, one of the UK’s largest retailers of solid hardwood furniture, has opened its first showroom in Salisbury. The new superstore located on Southampton Road Retail Park has created seven new local jobs. Swindon, ...
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Austrian packaging firm Alpla Group has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Egypt-based Taba Group to expand operations in Africa and the Middle East. Both firms have signed a partnership agreement to form a joint venture, which will ...
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Carpetright is celebrating the success of its first ever graduate apprentices during National Apprenticeship Week. Apprenticeship and work-based training provider, First4Skills, has worked in partnership with Carpetright to deliver the ...
Mondi Group has agreed to acquire the Simet corrugated plant located in Grabonóg, near Poznań in Poland. The plant is designed to produce a wide range of flexo printed packaging including American cases, die-cut and multipoint ...
Huawei and ZTE are building up their presence in Colombia, counting on the quality of their products to attract local consumers. The two Chinese tech giants are now mainstays in the Latin American country thanks to their smartphone and ...
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Cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) module maker First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, international mining group Rio Tinto and the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) have announced that Australia's first commercial ...
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Sika is continuing to increase its production capacity in Russia through new and expansion investments. In Volgograd, in southern Russia, a mortar factory and a plant to produce concrete admixtures are being opened. At the existing site in ...
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Axalta Coating Systems, a US based supplier of liquid and powder coatings for automobiles sector, has boosted its supply capabilities in Southern California region. With daily delivery services covering Oxnard in north and Fontana in ...
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Axalta Coating Systems has expanded its powder supply capabilities in the Southern California region. Axalta's new local delivery service provides daily deliveries expanding as far north as Oxnard, California and as far south as Fontana, ...
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In late March, on the 10 hectare former airstrip at the Gatton campus of The University of Queensland in Brisbane St Lucia, the 3.275MW Gatton Solar Research Facility (the state's largest solar array) was officially opened by Industry and ...
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