Medhat Elsewedy Print House, a Cairo-based company with 30 years’ experience serving some major international brands, is expanding its operations and placing a greater emphasis on the packaging sector of print. Accordingly, the company has invested in a raft of new technology to help it achieve its goals and to offer its customers greater value …
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Oui by Yoplait, the premium French-style yoghurt crafted in a glass jar, has been recognised in Nielsen’s 2019 Breakthrough Innovation Report. Oui was one of the biggest yoghurt launches in recent times, generating more than $100 million in first-year sales and finishing among the top three new products according to IRI’s 2018 New Product Pacesetter …
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How Bobst and partners are pioneering high-barrier mono-materials laminates as environmentally friendly alternatives to traditional plastic There is perhaps nothing which defines our consumer-driven society of recent decades better than plastic. Its staggering growth since the 1950s has been driven largely by our industry, which recognises its versatility, durability and impermeability. But these very same …
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Messe Düsseldorf GmbH has postponed the impending propriety fairs ProWein, wire, Tube, Beauty, Top Hair and Energy Storage Europe scheduled for March and early April. Messe Düsseldorf has reassessed the situation in accordance with the recommendation of the crisis management team of the German government and the recent significant increase in the number of infected persons with the COVID-19 globally. In close …
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Packaging MEA team takes a closer look at the company with a 100-year history. Huhtamaki continues to grow, looking to reach deeper into Africa, and has invested in a multi-million-euro new plant near Cairo Huhtamaki, a multinational food packaging specialist headquartered in Finland with a century-long history, has launched a new, start-of-the-art flexible packaging unit …
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As KSA marches forward in a period of growth and change, Jamjoom PP General Manager Mohammed Kashif Awaan tells Packaging MEA Editor Ben Daniel about an impressive opening 12 months Jamjoom Printing & Packaging (JP&P) launched a little over a year ago, and already its GM, Mohammed Kashif Awaan, reckons the company is already the …
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KSA Esko, the global innovator of integrated software and hardware solutions, has agreed on a new deal with Dynagraph to resell its entire portfolio across Saudi Arabia. Under the terms of the agreement, the leading player in the Middle Eastern graphics industry will distribute the complete Esko range of finishing, flexo and software solutions, with …
The Industrial Modernisation Centre Deputy Director for Innovation Hisham Mohamed Basha tells Packaging MEA Editor Ben Daniel about its groundbreaking design awards concept and application to the real world of work. If any economy, and indeed any country, is to grow and thrive, its business environment must invest not only in supporting its existing enterprises …
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UAE: The Middle East’s leading food brand, Pinar, has opened the UAE’s first processed cheese factory. Yasar Group, which owns Pinar, opened the plant with an initial investment of $27 million. The first-ever “Made in the UAE” cheese will be produced at the complex in Abu Dhabi. Attending the launch of the new facility was …
MEA: This new section initiated by Packaging MEA Contributing Editor Doaa bin Thabit aims to support and create awareness about the power of packaging for a good cause. If your product package supports any of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), share your Cause Marketing campaign story with us so we can publish it here. Packaging …
