Packaging award winners highlight collaboration and security
May 17, 2013 9:06 am ET
WILMINGTON, DEL. — In remote villages in sub-Saharan Africa, medicine can be hard to find, while Coca-Cola is virtually everywhere.
WILMINGTON, DEL. — In remote villages in sub-Saharan Africa, medicine can be hard to find, while Coca-Cola is virtually everywhere.
BAD HOMBURG, GERMANY — Two European packaging associations — France's Elipso and Germany-based IK Industrievereinigung Kunststoffverpackungen e.V. (IK) — met this week to highlight difficulties in polymer sourcing in Europe.
BRAMPTON, ONTARIO -- Canada-based thermoformed packaging company Par-Pak Ltd. is slated to be bought by Waddington North America Inc., a major plastic tableware producer.
ANN ARBOR, MICH. — Amcor Rigid Plastics says it has created the lightest 64-ounce hot-fill PET container of its kind, weighing only 59 grams.
HONG KONG — Hong Kong's government wants to expand its 4-year-old ban on free plastic shopping bags to cover the vast majority of retailers in the densely-populated city, saying the measure is needed to reduce a landfill space crunch.
MEXICO CITY — Global Closure Systems, established after French private equity firm PAI Partners purchased Philadelphia-based Crown Holding Inc’s plastics closure business for $750 million in 2005, is in the middle of a major expansion of its manufacturing operations in Mexico.
SHANGHAI — Coca-Cola Co. announced in April it is launching its PlantBottle package to distribute Coca-Cola, Sprite and Fanta in the massive Chinese market.
NAPERVILLE, ILL. — Portola Packaging Inc. says its North American facilities reduced energy usage by almost 30 percent and recycled about 9 million pounds of material over the past three years.
CRYSTAL LAKE, ILL. — Caps and closures maker AptarGroup Inc. is investing $50 million to upgrade its plant in Mukwonago, Wis., as part of a multi-year process which will include upgrading production lines.
BOLTON, ONTARIO — Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd. is restructuring its global leadership team to put new emphasis on its hot-runner and beverage packaging businesses.
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