packaging
$3M in federal funding to cut plastic food, construction waste
Three companies winners of the government’s plastics innovation challenge, part of a plan to ban many single-use plastics by 2021.
CCL Industries buying Polish BOPP film company Flexpol for $22M
Allows the company to deliver label films in Europe using the same technology it has in Innovia Mexico for the Americas.
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Cascades launches a 100% recycled, recyclable cardboard food tray
Patented water-based barrier coating protects it against humidity to enhance the packaging efficiency.
TC Transcontinental selling paper, polypropylene packaging business
Hood Packaging will acquire paper packaging operations and buildings in Iowa, Pennsylvania and Georgia.
F&B packagers focus on sustainable solutions: Frost & Sullivan
Adoption of biodegradable, recyclable paper and aluminum-based packaging materials will drive fresh growth.
Fast food players take tentative steps towards sustainable packaging
Canada is set to ban single-use plastics by 2021.
Pack Expo Las Vegas
September 23rd 2019Presented by the Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies. Co-located with Healthcare Packaging EXPO. More than 2,000 exhibitors covering a 900,000 square-foot show floor featuring packaging machinery in action.
PEI potato shortage blamed as Cavendish Farms closes packaging plant
Shortfall of 68 million kilograms in 2017; bought from new sources on the island as well as from producers in other provinces.
Pack Expo International 2018
October 14th 2018Pack Expo International brings together end users and suppliers from every packaged goods industry. Exhibitors include 2,500+ leading suppliers of advanced packaging equipment, materials, containers, automation technologies and other supply chain solutions. New in 2018, the PACKage Printing Pavilion is…
Transcontinental to diminish printing role with $1.3B packaging deal
$1.32 billion purchase of Coveris Americas makes it North America’s seventh-largest packaging company.
Transcontinental buys Multifilm Packaging, a US snack, candy packager
The company’s sixth acquisition since entering the flexible packaging industry.
Transcontinental ready for large packaging acquisition to transform company
$1 billion to purchase companies would allow flexible packaging revenues to surpass printing for the first time.
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Big Tobacco miffed over health committee snub, opposes plain packaging
Will make it even easier for the contraband cigarette industry to thrive in Canada: Imperial Tobacco.
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Great Little Box Co. bolsters its operations with new packaging machines
BC company invests in new printing press, label converter and label laminator.
Redpath Sugar invests $5.2M for new packaging lines at Belleville plant
Project will create 80 jobs and retain 291 positions; includes $624K provincial investment.
