Rigid plastic producers Amcor Rigid Plastics will soon operate an on-site production facility within Method’s manufacturing facility in Chicago to produce 100% PCR polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles. Method produces ...
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RPC Superfos, a unit of rigid plastic packaging business RPC Group, has introduced new packaging for dairy products. In line with consumer demand for easy meals on-the-go, the new dairy packaging includes a spoon integrated into the lid ...
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One step. One operation. One machine. And a step-change in efficiency and flexibility. This is what Amcor's launch of its breakthrough technology LiquiForm brings to the packaging market. LiquiForm uses the consumable liquid instead of ...
Amcor's statutory profit for the year ended 30 June 2014 from continuing operations was $737.00 million, a surge in profit of 24.6% over the previous year's result - $589.20 million. Earnings per share (EPS) was boosted by 24.7% to 61.1 ...
LiquiForm uses consumable liquid instead of compressed air to hydraulically form and fill the container on one machine simultaneously. The technology uses the contents of the bottle – such as soft drinks, juices, shampoos etc ...
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Australia-based packaging company Amcor has introduced new technology LiquiForm, which is said to benefit liquid packaging producers. The new technology will use the consumable liquid instead of compressed air to hydraulically form and ...
UK-based rigid plastic packaging provider RPC Group has selected Kyriba to provide its Kyriba Enterprise SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) treasury management system. The system will enable RPC to improve its cash visibility, reduce ...
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Consolidated Container (CCC), an investment arm of Bain Capital in the plastic packaging sector, has acquired plastic recycling companies Envision Plastics and Ecoplast from their founders Massoud Rad and Parham Yedidsion. Both the ...
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Belgium-based cleaning products manufacturer Ecover has introduced new bottle, which is produced from waste plastic taken out of the ocean. Claimed to be manufactured completely from recycled plastic that includes 10% of plastic from the ...
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RPC Group, an international rigid plastic packaging supplier, is set to acquire ACE for an initial consideration of around $301m (£178m) and a total consideration of up to $430m (£255m). RPC proposes to fund the initial $301m ...
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North American rigid packaging manufacturer Placon has completed the acquisition of Plastic Packaging, a rigid plastic container producer in the US. The 100,000ft2 location of Plastic Packaging in West Springfield will bring the total ...
Castle Harlan, the New York-based middle-market private equity firm, announced that Castle Harlan Partners V has agreed to sell Pretium Packaging to Genstar Capital, a private equity firm based in San Francisco. Pretium Packaging, ...
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Consumption of prepared meals in Thailand is forecast to rise at an annual rate of 9.8%, while other South East Asian countries, such as Indonesia and the Philippines, are only expecting respective growths of 6% and 2.3%. According to ...
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The recycling of rigid plastics excluding bottles rose to nearly 1.02 billion pounds in 2012, an increase of 10 percent over 2011 and triple the amount recycled in 2007 when the industry first began tracking rigid plastics recycling. The ...
Market research firm Canadean has rsaid the Japanese plastic packaging industry is in rapid growth, with flexible and rigid plastics packaging demand projected to increase by 6.9 billion packs between 2012 and 2017. “Japanese ...
Tags: Plastic Packaging, Packaging