Growth will be driven by consumer and producer preferences for stand-up pouches over more traditional rigid packaging. The adoption of pouches with higher value features in developed markets — such as the US, Canada, Western Europe, ...
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UK-based supplier and contract slitter of flexible packaging materials Lean Flexibles has installed a X6 slitting machine from Universal Converting Equipment. The machine has helped the company to minimise job set up times, produce ...
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Pete Selleck, left, and Ralph Dimenna hosted the grand opening of the Michelin Tweel plant in Piedmont, S.C., on Nov. 20. Michelin North America Inc. opened its $50 million Tweel Airless Radial Tire plant in Greenville, S.C., today. ...
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DS Smith’s plastic division Worldwide Dispensers, providers of high quality precision-injection molding, automated assembly and custom-design dispensing solution, has opened a new manufacturing facility in Illinois, US. The new, ...
UK-based plastic pallets supplier Goplasticpallets.com has launched the GoBox 1210 BBE, a grocery box that helps in keeping fruits and vegetables fresh for a long time. These new perforated, rigid plastic pallets are said to be ...
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Saxco International, a US-based distributor of rigid packaging for alcoholic beverages, has designed new packaging for Ambrabev's Boteco Ultra-Premium Cane Vodka range. Ambrabev's Boteco Ultra-Premium Cane Vodka range is being introduced ...
Tags: alcoholic beverages, Boteco Ultra-Premium Cane Vodka, Agriculture
Global packaging company Sonoco has announced that it has acquired Germany-based Weidenhammer Packaging Group for $360m (€286m) in cash. Weidenhammer specializes in producing composite cans along with composite drums and rigid ...
Folding cartons, rigid paper boxes and paperboard specialty products manufacturer Colbert Packaging Corporation has launched patient compliance packaging solutions, MedLock EZT. The new product is a child-resistant, senior-friendly and ...
Rigid plastic packaging manufacturer Plastipak Packaging has won a bid to acquire La Seda de Barcelona Group’s APPE Packaging Division for €360m. The investment will include a gross up of €65m that will be transferred with ...
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Sonoco has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Weidenhammer Packaging Group, Europe's leading provider of composite cans along with composite drums and rigid plastic containers, for AU$443 million, in cash. [The final consideration is ...
Linpac’s 16 plants throughout the world are about to get an Australian sibling. The UK packaging company is investing $22 million in its first Australian manufacturing headquarters, at Truganina, in Melbourne’s west. ...
Anchor Packaging, a manufacturer of rigid packaging, will add the new three-compartment 9” to its Gourmet Classics line of hinged RPET containers. Designed to keep the food fresh and appealing, the new product is best suited to pack ...
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The decade of the 1950s saw women's clothing in China lose all aesthetic significance after the founding of New China. After experiencing the Great Leap Forward [*note] and the People's Communalization Movement [*note], Chinese women's ...
The Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI) said that in the highly labour-intensive textile sector, rigid labour laws have been a major hindrance to investments and scaling up of production facilities. Prem Malik, Chairman, CITI ...
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The Department of Transportation Services of the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii has selected BAE Systems’ HybriDrive Series-E propulsion system to power four New Flyer Xcelsior 60-foot, low-floor rapid transit buses. The system ...
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