Published: Aug 31, 2012 By: Ben Bouckley

Tetra Pak cartons hold the lowest appeal among all packaging formats for UK wine consumers, and face a tough fight to win significant market share from the likes of glass and PET.

Published: Aug 30, 2012

Sealed Air has announced that CEO, William V. Hickey, will retire in March 2013.

Published: Aug 30, 2012 By: Joe Whitworth

The recycling rate in the US for aluminium beverage cans reached 65.1% last year, according to the latest figures from industry.

Published: Aug 29, 2012 By: Rod Addy

Nanotechnology for food and other industries is receiving strong support in the Basque region of Spain, with cash being channelled to researchers through the EU Framework 7 research funding programme.

Published: Aug 29, 2012 By: Joe Whitworth

Ahlstrom announced today that it is to demerge its Label and Processing business to focus on other areas including food packaging.

Published: Aug 29, 2012 By: Joe Whitworth

Pro Mach has acquired Federal Manufacturing for an undisclosed amount to enter the liquid filler market.

Published: Aug 29, 2012

Wind Point Partners, a private equity firm, has signed an agreement to acquire Shearer’s Foods, a private label salty snack manufacturer based in Brewster, Ohio. C.J. Fraleigh, who most recently was chief executive officer of Sara Lee Corp., will join She

Published: Aug 28, 2012

Joris Nachtergaele has been appointed as director external affairs at Metal Packaging Europe to support members’ interests in Brussels.

Published: Aug 28, 2012 By: Joe Whitworth

The American Chemistry Council (ACC) has defended bisphenol A (BPA) in the wake of a study which links exposure of the chemical to narrowing of the arteries.

Published: Aug 27, 2012

Serena Martin of Chicago remembers her Croatian parents stressing the point that a family should always know its cultural background.

Published: Aug 25, 2012

The trade fair duo, Drink Technology India (DTI) and International PackTech (the seventh edition of an international exhibition and conference for processes, packaging and printing), continues to grow.

Published: Aug 25, 2012 By: Mark Astley

UK-based First Milk has been ordered to pay nearly £60,000 in fines and charges following a court case relating to an explosion at a cheese factory in Cumbria.

Published: Aug 25, 2012 By: Joe Whitworth

BASF has added a flexible laboratory coating and laminating facility to its coating center to boost developing of adhesive systems for flexible packaging, labels, tapes and functional film coatings.

Published: Aug 25, 2012 By: Joe Whitworth

Faerch Plast has created a single layer packaged food tray that it hopes will compete against containers using multi-layer materials and solve potential recycling issues.

Published: Aug 25, 2012

Italian packaging manufacturer ILIP intends to continue its research partnership with the University of Bologna – furthering its efforts to learn more about the effects of its packaging on the fresh produce it protects.

Published: Aug 24, 2012

Bosch Packaging Technology has modified one of its case packers to handle glass jars due to customer demand.

Published: Aug 24, 2012

Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) says it is adopting the British Retail Consortium's (BRC's) on-pack recycling label to provide consumers with information on what packaging materials local authorities collect for recycling.

Published: Aug 24, 2012

The Co-operative Food, a UK-based retail chain, has changed the packaging on its own-brand onion to a recyclable material, a move which allows about 32 tons of packaging to be recycled annually.

Published: Aug 24, 2012

Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA) ‘s Interim Results issued on 22 August 2012 reveal net profit after tax increased by 5.6% to $247.1 million, before significant items. CCA also reported that trading revenue increased by 8.9% on strong Group volume growth of 5.5%.

Published: Aug 23, 2012 By: Joe Whitworth

Amcor said the defensive nature of its food and beverage business led to strong economic performance in its full year results.