Italy-based packaging provider Bormioli Rocco has introduced a line of 100 per cent recyclable PET bottles and roll-ons to meet growing demand for sustainable packaging.
An interactive tag incorporating the use of mobile phones enhances the promotional aspect of packaging while delivering additional information to consumers, claims US developer.
Production of glass and aluminium packaging within Europe is showing a positive turnaround amidst processor concerns over economic and environmental factors, according to their respective industries associations.
Australian packaging company Amcor has announced a profit after tax and before significant items (PAT) of AUS $369m (€214m) for the year ended June 2008.
Rexam has opened a new centre of technical expertise, giving its personal care division a dedicated facility aimed at enhancing its quality of service and packaging product innovation.
Beauty plastics specialist Texen buys Mar-Lee Companies, Molded Fiber increases sustainable production and Oystar USA launches a cosmetics cartoner for rapid delivery.
Manufacturers realize they need to become sustainable to remain competitive. Eco-friendly packaging is a vital component of this but presents companies with a myriad of choices and challenges.
The Irish food industry and the Department of Environment have
together launched a training initiative to achieve a reduction in
packaging amid growing environmental concerns.
BASF's tough and transparent styrene-butadiene copolymer can now be
used as a cost-effective plastic for blow moulding, according to
recent internal research.
The packaging trade body EUROPEN has defended the industry and its
environmental impact after the European Commission was called onto
examine the potential 'eco-taxes' may have in reducing climate
change.
Cosmetics packaging firm CSI/Cosmolab has teamed up with material
supplier Cereplast to develop environmentally friendly
double-walled jars and closures from bio-plastics.
Packaging giant Gerresheimer crowned its first year as a public
company with a leap in profits for the fourth quarter of 2007,
helped by its acquisition of plastic specialist Wilden Group.
Cosmetics and fragrance packaging specialist QSLD Paris has opened
up its second affiliate in Geneva, in a move that aims to grow its
presence on a global basis.
M&H Plastics is launching an antimicrobial packaging product
aimed at personal care and pharmaceutical product manufacturers to
help stop the spread of infection.
A new radio frequency identification (RFID) logger combines
tracking and tracing with temperature readings, giving processors a
way to identify when product safety may have been compromised.
Manufacturers and retailers should start planning for the 2010
deadline for adopting a new smaller, international bar code that
can help improve logistics, says the organisation that created the
standard.
Keeping up with the incredible number of new innovations in the
personal care packaging segment recently, leading player Rexam
Dispensing Systems has unveiled two new technologies.
Eco-friendly packaging specialist Plantic will soon be entering the
US market as part of a development, marketing and branding
agreement with chemical firm DuPont.
Virginia based packaging company, MeadWestvaco, has announced its
acquisition of Keltec Dispensing Systems, which specializes in
airless packaging systems.
Applied DNA Sciences is to take its DNA marker technology, which
protects products against fraud and counterfeiting, to the 'Future
of Ink on Packaging' conference in London next week, in the hope of
bringing its product...
Making packaging stand out is one of the most important criteria in
today's overcrowded colour cosmetics market, a challenge that
UK-based RPC Group has countered with technologies that
include partial electroplating to differentiate...
A recent campaign from bath and beauty chain Lush, that urged
shoppers to avoid excess packaging where possible, has received
criticism from a Canadian business woman who claims that the
tagline violates her trademark.
Heat-shrink labels with integrated holograms could help the
personcal care industry in the fight against counterfeiting and
forgery, the manufacturers claim.
Purac has invested in new lactides that will potentially provide
the food, pharma and cosmetics industries with cheaper and more
effective bioplastic packaging, the company announced yesterday.
The European Commission demand that Hungary remove taxes on
packaging designed to penalise foreign companies could be the start
of the dismantling of such barriers to trade.
In a bid to push processors and other manufacturers to reduce their
greenhouse gas emissions, the UK government yesterday unveiled a
proposal to put "carbon footprint" labels on all products.
Premium oral and beauty care brand Rembrandt, part of the Johnson
& Johnson group, says it has re-branded by updating its
packaging featuring a design that aims to rejuvenate its share of
the tooth whitening market.
The European the Court of First Instance has upheld a European
Commission ruling that ended monopolistic practices in the
collection of packaging waste in Germany.
RPC beauté Thornaby has developed a design flexible tooling concept
that cuts out the high cost element normally attached to bespoke as
standard packaging creations - making it a more desirable packaging
option for manufacturers in...
Continued expansion in Asia and a 12.4 per cent rise in
sales were the key highlights during the
first quarter 2007 for international packaging group Crown.
Munich based designer, Dieter Bakic has received acclaim from the
iF product design awards 2007, with two of his cosmetic packaging
designs for giants Beiersdorf and Shiseido receiving the coveted
award.
US based rolled packaging products company, Novelis has created a
new range of bright finish aluminium sheet products for the
cosmetics industry - designed by its European plant.
Two different packaging seals offer easier opening with security --
while one is designed for industrial and commercial use, the other
meets increasing consumer demand, the manufacturer claims.
The RPC Bramlage Wiko group has been chosen as the packaging
company to create the dispensing system for the new male grooming
range created by Champneys - a company more commonly known for its
health spas.
Packaging company Bradman Lake is selling off recently acquired
brands Albro, Dico and Gravfil only months after investing in a new
multi-million euro manufacturing facility.
The UK-based RPC Group has provided enhanced packaging for the
Estée Lauder Cyber White skin care range, with the new jar caps
aimed at maximizing all-important on-shelf impact.
German based cosmetic manufacturer, Oekametall, has raised the bar
in the packaging industry with an innovative new double-ended
mascara-packaging concept for Lancôme - set to challenge
competitors with its elaborate centre piece...
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