Americas: Eastman Chemical Company awards Berry Plastics Group unit for excellence

Berry Plastics Group’s Flexible Intermediate Bulk Containers (FIBC) group recently received two awards from Eastman Chemical Company. Berry Plastics was one of approximately 21 suppliers from Eastman’s 6,000 vendors, to be awarded Eastman’s Supplier Excellence Award. It was also presented with an Innovation Award for 2013. The Supplier Excellence Award recognizes suppliers who demonstrate consistency and performance in metrics such as on-time...

Europe: AkzoNobel unveils sustainable paper cup

AkzoNobel’s coatings technology EvCote Water Barrier 3000 – which itself is made from plant-based oils and recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles – have enabled restaurants to serve cold drinks in a more sustainable paper cup that do not require any modification in the current recycle stream or special handling and are fully compostable and recyclable. "This is an industry-changing innovation...

Europe: Lanxess rolls out program, combines business units for competitiveness

Lanxess has defined a three-phase program "Let’s Lanxess again”, divided into business and administration structure competitiveness, operations competitiveness, and portfolio competitiveness. The group-wide restructuring program initiated by the board of management on July 24, 2014 will initially focus on the first area – the business and administration structure competitiveness. Preparations for the following phases have already begun. Effective January 1, 2015, the...

Asia Pacific: Fonterra, CSIRO partner on dairy innovation

Fonterra Co-operative Group and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) have signed a signed a five-year agreement to drive innovation in sustainable farming, manufacturing, health, nutrition and consumer dairy products. Under the agreement, CSIRO will apply its expertise to the co-operative’s global dairy chain using its broad range of industrial know-how and scientific capability in remote sensing, resource...

Europe: Ball Corp to expand beverage can manufacturing plant in the Netherlands

Ball has announced the expansion of its beverage can manufacturing plant in Oss, the Netherlands. The company will build an additional production line for 50-centiliter aluminium cans at the existing plant location. “In the Benelux countries, more and more breweries are choosing cans for their beer packaging,” said Colin Gillis, president, Ball Packaging Europe. “The Oss plant is the only beverage can...

Europe: Flint Group Flexographic Products presents new plate for flexible packaging, label printing

Flint Group Flexographic Products presents with nyloflex NEF Digital a new durometer plate that is designed for the nyloflex NExT exposure technology to print flexible packaging and labels. Developed for the efficient creation of flat top dots and an excellent reproduction of surface screenings, the new plate shows quality in highlight areas due to a stable reproduction of highlights and...

Asia Pacific: Toyo Ink Group opens second facility in India

The Toyo Ink Group has in July 2014 inaugurated its second production site in the country, in Dahej, Gujarat state, along India’s eastern coast. The new US$17 million facility has commenced production of offset inks to satisfy demand in the rapidly growing printing market in India. With a production capacity of 10,000 metric tons—nearly three times that of the company’s first...

Europe: UK packaging company uses natural inks in corrugated packaging

Weedon PSC Ltd, UK’s manufacturer of retail ready packaging (RRP) and point of sale (POS) display units, has begun using predominantly natural printing inks on corrugated packaging. The company has been awarded exclusive rights to print RRP and POS displays using a new range of environmentally friendly, water-based flexographic and screen printing inks, Earthinks, which are made from up to...

Americas: Husky World Tour in Mexico hosts specialty closures conference

In June 2014, Husky Injection Molding Systems hosted the first event of its Husky World Tour for 2014 – a specialty closures conference at its Technical Center in Cuajimalpa, Mexico. This small event featured presentations and discussions with nearly 40 attendees, made up of both current and prospective customers. The one-day event included networking opportunities and presentations from speakers including Greg Lathrop...

World: Coca-Cola Company, African bottling partners to invest US$5B in region over six years

The Coca-Cola Company and its African bottling partners has on August 5, 2014 announced an investment of US$5 billion during the US-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, US. The investment, to be made over the next six years, increases its total announced investment in Africa to $17 billion from 2010 to 2020. The company and its bottling partners anticipate that this investment...