Europe: KHS wins 2014 German Design Award for ClearLine
KHS' ClearLine system has won The German Design Award, which was held awarded once a year by the German Design Council.
A total of 1,900...
Europe: Bioplastics have the potential for being truly sustainable, says EU
Bioplastics made from bio-feedstock, and reintegrated into the biosphere as a nutrient, or recycled together with conventional plastic, have a potential for being a...
Europe: RTD iced coffee grows in region, says report
Europe has seen robust growth in the niche iced/ready-to-drink (RTD) coffee market during the last few years, despite many other fast moving consumer goods...
Europe: Pasta sauce company Ragú switches to RPC Superfos’ barrier pack
UK pasta sauce company Ragú has packaged its product in RPC Superfos’ SuperLock barrier pack.
Instead of glass, Ragú has used a 400ml pack, supplied...
Europe: Krones introduces 500 mm, 12.5 g PET bottle for aseptic filling
Krones’ Contiform AseptBloc technology has created a square 500 mm polyethylene (PET) bottle weighing 12.5 gram for aseptic filling.
Presented for the first time at interpack...
Europe: Coveris invests in machines at site to produce pouches, plastic packaging
Plastic packaging manufacturer Coveris is expanding the machine park at its site in Neuwied, Germany.
With the new triplex laminating unit, the company can offer...
Europe: GEA receives major dairy processing orders worth more than €60M
German-based engineering group GEA received various major orders from the dairy processing industry in the second quarter of 2014.
The orders, under which GEA will...
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...
Europe: UK institute, company develop tool to tell animal species apart in meat
The Institute of Food Research (IFR), working with Oxford Instruments, has developed a new, rapid testing regime based upon benchtop nuclear magnetic resonance that...
Europe: Energy drink producers create healthier versions to attract UK consumers
Although energy drinks producers report record sales, a new survey by Canadean finds that more than half of energy drink consumers in the UK...