Leading global packaging and paper manufacturer Mondi has launched an innovative new mobile app for the sack kraft paper market. The ‘Go2Sack’ app provides information and real-time calculations and is a market first for the paper and sack kraft industry. The app helps users to select the best paper grade for a specific product and …
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Avery Dennison has taken an important step towards supplying a recycled polypropylene (rPP) label material, collaborating with SABIC in the TRUCIRCLE™ initiative, which encompasses circular materials and technologies to enable product manufacturers to reach their sustainability goals. Rob Groen in ‘t Wout, senior marketing manager film EU for Avery Dennison Label and Packaging Materials, said …
Coveris’ latest invention is a cast polypropylene film (CPP), the Coveris Print Layer (PP CPL), designed for flexible packaging of a wide range of food, pet food and non-food products. It boasts of an improved structure and outstanding stiffness for product protection. The key factor behind CPP’s excellent performance is the ability to withstand re-shrinking …
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Smurfit Kappa has introduced an innovative new Vitop® tap to its Bag-in-Box range as part of its ongoing sustainability activity. The Natural Vitop® tap does not contain any carbon black pigment, which is classified as an unwanted component by many recycling facilities due to the fact that it is not always detected by the optical sorting near-infrared (NIR) …
Sappi has expanded its portfolio of barrier papers and is now offering businesses a vast range of innovative packaging paper solutions. A 91 g/m² version was recently added to the high-barrier paper range. It opens up additional applications for manufacturers of branded goods. All high-barrier papers from Sappi ensure that the product quality of foods …
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Huhtamaki has entered into an agreement to acquire the majority of Everest Flexibles (Pty) Limited (“Everest”), a privately-owned flexible packaging manufacturer in South Africa. With the acquisition. Huhtamaki will expand its flexible packaging manufacturing footprint into South Africa, thereby further strengthening its emerging market position. The product range and customer portfolio of Everest are complementary …
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Innovia Films and the German snack manufacturer, Wildcorn have worked together to produce a fully recyclable and sustainable pack for their Wildcorn organic popcorn range. The 2016 founded Wildcorn in Berlin, produces a range of 100% organic, healthy and flavourful snacks. In 2017 the company launched its first sustainability program in partnership with Mellifera (the …
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Jeddah based United Carton Industries Company (UCIC), a leader in Saudi Arabia’s packaging industry, is achieving a breakthrough advancement in digital print for corrugated packaging with the installation of an EFITMNozomi C18000 six-color, single-pass LED inkjet printer from Electronics For Imaging, Inc. The new printer will bring exciting opportunities for UCIC to enter new market segments, …
Herma has launched the 62L luminophore adhesive, for tamper-evident labels, making the presence monitoring of transparent labels becomes more reliable. This results in clearly improved safety – for the product manufacturer as well as the product user. Security features, for example for protection against product piracy, are in great demand in many industries. They have even …
SIG is set to deliver the first integrated APM (asset performance management) and FSM (field service management) digital solution for the food and beverage industry. Developed in partnership with GE Digital, the Plant 360 Asset Management will feature a range of on-demand digital services designed to help manufacturers to attain efficiency, productivity and connectivity in …
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