packaging
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.
Cascades to close New York City packaging plant
Facility has reached its physical limits, selling property for $72 million.
Manufacturer receives $188K to develop wood-based bonding agents
Sustainable bonding-agents replace petroleum-based products.
Cannabis industry opposes call for plain packaging, advertising bans
But licensed producers argue that cannabis isn’t as dangerous as tobacco.
CCL Industries acquires LabelOne in Belfast for $17.7M
Company provides labelling for clinical trial and pharmaceutical sector.
Cascades invests $4.5M in two packaging plants
Machinery upgrades aim to increasing market share in the food packaging sector.
Packer provides a tight seal
Up to 30 cycles per minute.
