Aujan Coca-Cola aims to double sales on youth market

Demographics are region’s bright spot as its costs rise and new taxes target the sector Uae  Saudi Arabia’s Aujan Coca-Cola Beverages Company, one of the Middle East’s largest drink makers, believes the region’s demographics can enable it to double its revenue to $1.5 billion by 2020, according to a report in Gulf Newws. TolgaSezer, who …

UAE’s Hotpack to build packaging plant in Wales

UK manufacturing facility to be set up with GBP50m and to act as Europe head office dubaiHotpack Packaging Industries, a leading producer and wholesaler of quality disposable food packaging materials in the UAE, has announced an investment of GBP50m (USD62m) to develop a facility in Wrexham in Wales in the UK. Abdul Jebbar P B, …

Klöckner Pentaplast signs acquisition deal with LINPAC Group

In a deal that aims to combine annual revenues exceeding $2 billion, the Klöckner Pentaplast Group has signed an agreement to acquire LINPAC Group Limited and its direct and indirect subsidiaries, announced the two companies. Wayne M. Hewett, CEO of KP, said, “This is a highly complementary acquisition that will help KP expand our technological …

DELTA FORCE

Delta Group has opened a 20,000m2 multi-service facility gathering its subsidiaries at Dubai’s National Industries Park and is poised to open a similarly sized plant at the freezone to launch corrugated packaging operations.

MODERN VIEWS

His Excellency Dr. Ahmed Bin Hassan Al Shaikh’s perspective on print and packaging carry the weight of an impressive academic as well as commercial background. Dubai- based Modern Printing Press’s managing director graduated with a political science degree in the UAE before completing a master’s then a doctorate in economics in the UK. In the …

Palestine cup-making plants take off

Turkish entrepreneur sparks development with plan for used kit Palestine Turkish plastics executive Yavuz Eroglu has told plasticsnews.com how a factory he set up in 2008 in Hebron has triggered the emergence of several packaging plants in the West Bank. While Ergolu’s initial goal was to dispose of equipment from his Istanbul-based thermoforming and extrusion …

SIG Combibloc launches stronger carton laminate

Combibloc RS expected to replace standard structure for dairy products and drinks Germany: SIG Combibloc has launched combibloc RS (resilient structure), a compos- ite structure that it claims further improves system stability during processing while contributing to even better environmental performance. In the medium term, this new laminate will become the standard composite structure for …

WorldSkills selection gets under way

Graduates compete to take part in Abu Dhabi printing contest Germany    Germany’s print industry has picked its representative at the WorldSkills printing competition, being held in Abu Dhabi on 14-19 October next year. Three newly graduated printers vied for the role at a preliminary selection round on 23-24 November 2016. Florian Kraus from AZ Druck …

Choc wrapper from potato starch wins eco award

Germany Mars, Rodenburg, and Taghleef have been announced as the joint winners of the bioplastics industry’s leading prize for 2016 with a bio-based film made from potato waste starch. The innovative packaging solution is a joint development by Mars, Rodenburg Biopolymers, and Taghleef Industries. Mon- di’s Consumer Goods Packaging plant Solec in Poland was the …