Summary of Upakovka/Upak Italia 2009
Upakovka/Upak Italia: Even in hard times, the Russian packaging market offers a wealth of opportunities. Moscow trade fair records high levels of visitor interest and satisfied international exhibitor companies.
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Chadwicks expands into shrink sleeves
Leading pre-cut lid manufacturer Chadwicks is moving into the shrink-sleeve market following recent investments.
Eastman Chemical launched new innovative packaging designs
Eastman Chemical Company have introduced new examples of elegant and innovative cosmetic and personal care packaging designs from The Glass Polymer family of copolyesters.
New barrier designs for wide-neck jars
New monolayer and multilayer designs for hot-fill barrier packaging have been developed for oxygen-sensitive foods such as pasta sauces, salsas, and fruit.
Global availability of Tetra Gemina Aseptic
Tetra Pak today announced the global availability of Tetra Gemina™ Aseptic, the world's first roll-fed gable top shaped package with full aseptic performance for the packaging of both juice and milk-based products.
Greiner Packaging sells its composite can production to Weidenhammer
Greiner Packaging AG Switzerland, a company of Greiner Packaging International, will sell its product segment composite cans by 31 May 2009.
Rapid collapse of prices for steel products
In summer last year the manufacturers of tin plate packaging and closures still faced drastic rises in the price of supply materials. Then the December motto ran: feedstock prices for sheet steel packaging no longer follow spot market prices. The result is great insecurity amongst steel processing companies and their industrial buyers.
Double shelf life for fresh poultry
Teva-Off, Israel, launches fresh poultry with an eight-day shelf life. This surpasses all other fresh meat and poultry products available in the marketplace.
Optimising the weight of PET packaging
Container weight is a crucial factor in the packaging of many products as it greatly influences both logistic aspects and consumer habits. Compared to traditional materials such as glass and metal, the use of plastics has brought about a large reduction in packaging weight.
Nonverbal packaging
Creativeness out-of-bounds, a furious interplay of colours and shapes, exploding into brainchildren and fetching ideas of a genius, eventually converging on a perfect solution.
Dell reduces computer packaging
Dell says it`s implementing a new computer packaging plan that will result in estimated savings of more than $8 million and the elimination of approximately 20 million pounds of packaging material over the next four years.
First industrial-scale extrusion blow-molding of Styrolux
For the first time in Europe, a machine manufacturer has demonstrated that BASF`s Styrolux 3G 46 can be processed by extrusion blow-molding.
