
Supply Chain Risk Management
Coronavirus Outbreak Reveals the Weakest Links in the Supply Chain – The Supplier’s Supplier
For many firms, the outbreak of COVID-19 has meant staff working from home and more use of teleconferencing rather than face to face meetings. However, it’s a different situation for manufacturers because, despite investments in automation, reducing the need for staff on assembly lines, they still need to receive raw ...

Label for biodegradability
Clariant Masterbatches earn ‘OK’ certification for home and industrial composting
Clariant color and additive masterbatches made in five plants in Europe and Asia have been awarded OK compost HOME and OK compost INDUSTRIAL labels by the TÜV AUSTRIA Belgium NV testing company. The certification means that the masterbatch ingredients, including the polymer carrier, will not compromise the biodegradability of the ...

Efficient Use Of Resources
Corrugated: Circular by nature
FEFCO welcomes the new Circular Economy Action Plan published by the Commission on March 11. The circular economy is vital for achieving the Green Deal ambition for climate neutrality, preserving natural resources and supporting the competitiveness of the European economy. The sustainable product policy framework could be a real driver ...

AR Packaging drives sustainable innovation and targets
Major shift to dry molded fibre packaging together with PulPac
AR Packaging informs to aim to be first on the market with commercially viable plastic free trays and cutlery for the food, on-the-go and food service sectors. The group looks to contribute to innovative process developments of fully fibre based solutions and therefore has joined the PulPac Technology Pool and ...

On the way to recyclable plastic packaging
Pioneering new high barrier mono-materials laminates
Nothing perhaps defines the consumer-driven society of recent decades better than plastic. Its growth in production since the 1950s – largely driven by packaging – has been extraordinary. About a staggering 300 million tons of it is produced each year. And it is known that the qualities that make plastic ...

AR Packaging expanding
AR Packaging completes acquisitions of rlc packaging group and Nampak Cartons Nigeria
Following customary closing conditions and local regulatory approvals, AR Packaging announces the completion of the acquisition of rlc packaging group, including indirectly a significant share in BSC Drukarnia Opakowa S.A., and Nampak Cartons Nigeria Limited. Through these acquisitions, AR Packaging continues its successful growth development in line with the strategic ...

Additional "Best Dressed Wine" award this year
Smurfit Kappa supports prestigious international wine contest
Smurfit Kappa Bag-in-Box and Vitop, experts in comprehensive Bag-in-Box® packaging solutions, are official sponsors of the Concours International ‘Best Wine in Box’ contest once again this year. Smurfit Kappa Bag-in-Box has supported the prestigious wine contest since it began in 2015 when a strategic partnership was born. The innovative concept ...

Pack Expo 2019 Las Vegas
Schubert presented the lightline Flowpacker
The Pack Expo is North America’s largest packaging & processing industry trade show. Its venue switches yearly from Chicago to Las Vegas to ideally serve all regions across the continent. “The show is always an ideal event to connect within the industry, exchange best practice knowledge and to set new ...

International forum dedicated to sustainable packaging
Ucima and FICO Foundation organize Packaging Speaks Green forum
Ucima (Italian Packaging Machinery Manufacturers' Association) and FICO Foundation organize Packaging Speaks Green, an international forum dedicated to the development of sustainability and to the circular economy in the packaging sector. The event is scheduled for 20 and 21 February 2020 in Bologna: packagingspeaksgreen.com An event focus on global trends ...

Cooperation with Interseroh
Innovia’s New Strata Film Awarded ‘Made For Recycling’ Quality Seal
Innovia Films has worked with Interseroh, an Independent German recycling and consulting company, to have their newly launched high barrier BOPP Propafilm™ Strata SL film evaluated. We are delighted that the film has been awarded a ‘very good’ rating and has been awarded the ‘Made for recycling’ logo. Interseroh analyse ...

Stora Enso
Organisational changes planed
Stora Enso plans to make organisational changes in the Paper division following the Oulu Mill conversion at the end of 2020. The planned changes could result in a reduction of a maximum of 135 employees in the Paper division. Stora Enso’s Paper division is planning to make organisational changes to ...

Inline solution for brand owners and consumer goods manufacturers
Late Stage Customization for erected cartons
Matching supply and demand in near real-time is the ultimate challenge for brand owners and consumer goods manufacturers – and Late Stage Customization is a key answer to that problem. It enables users to be very fast and agile in designing packaging – for instance for event-related or seasonal marketing ...

Modularity as core competence
Schubert presents new lightline Flowpacker at the Pack Expo 2019
During the Pack Expo show in Las Vegas, the Schubert Group will be exhibiting its new lightline Flowpacker – showcasing its proven dedication to innovation. The machine on exhibit combines a Flowpacker and a Pickerline in a single system and features Schubert’s patented, state-of-the art sealing technology for packaging heat-sensitive ...

Weener Plastics Group
CEO change at Weener Plastics Group
Weener Plastics Group has announced that Roel Zeevat, who has been Chief Executive Officer of the Group since July 2013, has decided to leave the company to pursue the next phase of his career outside Weener Plastics Group. Anthonie Zoomers, who has almost 30 years of executive management experience, will ...

Change the tape not the pack
Self adhesive tape delivers promotional impact for kettle foods
RE:CLOSE™ from Essentra Tapes is enabling Kettle Foods Ltd to promote its new KETTLE® & More range to consumers whilst also providing user-friendly pack reclosability to maintain freshness and support portion control. The 8-colour printed RE:CLOSE™ Tape can be seen on Lightly Salted KETTLE® Chips packs throughout retail outlets in ...

Revamp of italien beer brand
Can design for attracting younger demographic
Italian craft brewer Baladin – founded by Italian craft brewer Teo Musso in Piozzo, Italy, in 1986 – takes Crown’s Accents™ variable printing technology to connect with younger demographic. Originally launched in metal packaging in 2015, the cans were produced in six different designs, to support a collector’s item feel ...

New website for a start into the second centennial
Relaunch for 100 years SACMI
The new www.sacmi.it website is live since 26th July 2019. Available in four languages (Italian, English, Spanish, French), the website introduces visitors to the vast SACMI world. The layout of the extensive new website is designed to showcase everything the SACMI Group has to offer Ceramics, Plastics, Food&Beverage, Metals, Packaging ...

Brückner Maschinenbau Technical innovations for the K 2019
New line concept for single-origin packaging solutions
According to a press release Brückner Maschinenbau is working on a means to make films with the highest possible recycling capabilities producible on film stretching lines. The focus is on mono-material film with superior mechanical and optical properties, which will be able to substitute previous multi-layer films made from different ...

Nomination recognizes industry first for recycled PET liner launched in Europe
Avery Dennison shortlisted for Global Environmental and Sustainability Award 2019
One of three finalists, Avery Dennison is the first pressure sensitive label material supplier to introduce liner made from recycled PET, available commercially in Europe. The liner, which uses 30% PET post-consumer waste, meets technical qualifications while maintaining quality and performance for label design, printing, and application. Life cycle analysis ...

Stora Enso further improve its position in the growing packaging market
ANDRITZ receives a major order for an extensive rebuild from Stora Enso in Finland
International technology Group ANDRITZ has received an order from Stora Enso to supply production technologies and key process equipment for rebuild of the fiberline and drying machine as well as for modernization of the stock preparation system at its Oulu Mill, Finland. Start-up is scheduled for the fourth quarter of ...