Europe: Association shares metal packaging benefits on website
Empac, European Metal Packaging, the association consisting of European producers of rigid metal packaging and their supply chain partners has launched a website to help packagers to be better informed on metal packaging, and in particular its sustainability agenda. The website explains that metals are natural elements that maintain their physical properties forever and therefore will always be available for future...
Europe: Symrise secures funds for Diana take-over
Symrise AG has secured the financing for acquiring the Diana Group, a sensory solutions company using natural ingredients, by successfully issuing a bond. The €500 million (US$679.23 million) bond was oversubscribed several times. Part of a comprehensive financing concept totaling €1.3 billion (US$1.77 billion), it will be used by Symrise to finance the largest acquisition in the company’s history over the...
World: Brenntag Chemicals Nigeria opens to offer warehouse services locally
Brenntag Chemicals Nigeria Ltd was recently established in Lagos, Nigeria. The company says the country is currently ranking number one in terms of gross domestic product in Africa and is one of the world’s largest producers of oil and gas. It says the country holds potential for the distribution of chemicals in the oil and gas sector and serves as a...
World: Global dairy prices to recover in six months, despite slow Chinese demand, El Nino threats, says Rabobank
According to Rabobank’s Dairy Quarterly Q2: Beyond the tipping point, prices fell as a result of improved milk production in export regions and the easing of forward purchasing by China. These mechanisms freed more products for other buyers and lowered the need to ration demand with international dairy commodity prices falling 10-20% in the three months to mid-June. “The pull back...
Europe: Schumacher Packaging opens corrugated packaging plant in Germany
Schumacher Packaging began operations at its new, corrugated packaging plant in Greven on June 30, 2014. The site was completed in less than one year and costs €45 million (US$61.16 million). With the new factory in Greven, the company aims to bring the production of corrugated cardboard packaging even closer to important sales areas such as North-West Germany, the Ruhr area,...
Americas: Green packaging company Cascades sells three units to Rolland Enterprises
Cascades Inc., a company in the recovery and manufacturing of green packaging and tissue paper products, says it has reached an agreement with Rolland Enterprises Inc. for the sale of its fine papers activities in Canada for US$39.5 million. The units covered by this transaction include: - Rolland Division, an uncoated fine papers and security papers plant located in Saint-Jérôme, Canada. Founded...
Americas: US dairy collective uses wastewater technology, enjoys green energy, says GWE
US-based Cayuga Milk Ingredients (CMI) plans to manufacture a wide range of dairy products, such as pasteurized cream, whole milk powder, liquid permeate, condensed milk, skim milk powder, non-fat dry milk and milk proteins. Cayuga Marketing LLC, a collective of dairy farmers in the Finger Lakes Region, New York, US, decided to construct their local processing plant to reduce their milk-hauling...
Americas: Xitron introduces prepress workflow, tool kit for flexographic and packaging applications at ExpoPrint 2014
Xitron, a developer of raster image processor (RIP) and workflow products for the printing industry, introduces Navigator F/P, a prepress workflow and tool kit for flexographic and packaging applications. The tool kit is designed to be compatible with virtually every output device used in flexographic and package printing companies worldwide. “Looking at the high cost of software currently available, we recognize...
Europe: Casein protein helps in sports recovery, says DMV
DMV has shared information about casein protein from a nutritional point of view in sports nutrition. The company says casein protein is digested slowly in the human body, which clots together in an acidic environment such as the stomach. Due to this effect, the amino acids in casein are slowly released into the bloodstream that explains why casein protein is defined...
Americas: CDC reports findings on antibiotic resistance in foodborne germs
Antibiotic resistance in foodborne germs, an ongoing public health threat, showed both positive and troubling trends, according to data tracked by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2012. Each year, antibiotic-resistant infections from foodborne germs cause an estimated 430,000 illnesses in the US. Multi-drug resistant salmonella, from food and other sources, causes about 100,000 illnesses in the country...