Articles Tagged with ''packaging industry news''

To accommodate its growth, Delkor recently moved its operations to 4300 Round Lake Road West in St. Paul, MN. The new plant is 114,000 sq. ft. and is located at the intersection of Interstate Highways 35W and 694 in the Twin Cities.

The Sustainable Forestry Initiative® announced it will deliver up to $400,000 in 2013 to support research into responsible forestry practices through the SFI Conservation and Community Partnerships Grant Program.

Online registration is open for PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2013 (Sept. 23–25; Las Vegas Convention Center), and show owner and producer PMMI promises the richest, most solutions-driven event to date.

TimBar Packaging & Display’s point of purchase division is pleased to announce the opening of its new Atlanta Fulfillment facility. The building is 151,119 square feet in total of which about 86,000 will be climate-controlled. Capabilities will include hand-assembly, pack-out, fulfillment and distribution services.

Exopack Holding Corp. a leading global manufacturer of flexible packaging and coated products today announced that executive chairman Jack Knott will return to the company in a full time capacity as the executive chairman and chief executive officer. In addition, Mike Alger, a member of Exopack’s board of directors and chairman of the audit committee, has been named the company’s chief financial officer.

Visiongain’s analysis indicates that the global fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) packaging market will reach a value of $436.5 billion in 2013, as emerging market demand for FMCG products and demographic changes in the developed world heighten the demand dynamics in the FMCG packaging markets. The FMCG packaging market is therefore forecast by Visiongain to record solid growth over the next decade.

H.J. Heinz Company announced that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement to be acquired by an investment consortium comprised of Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital.

Allied Development Corp. publishes “Barrier Materials for Rigid Packaging 2013 to 2017”, a global industry report which provides in-depth analyses of the barrier materials that are used for the production of rigid barrier packages. The study focuses on seven materials that provide desirable low-level oxygen transmission rates (OTR) between zero and 77.5cc/m²/day (5 cc/100 in²/day). The principal barrier materials reported on in the study include glass containers, PET resin, steel sheet, aluminum sheet, transparent oxide-coated containers, EVOH resin, and nylon resin

The Bowling Green Area Chamber of Commerce announced today that Alpla, Inc., an Austrian-based plastic packaging company, plans to establish manufacturing operations in Bowling Green, Kentucky, creating 72 new, full-time jobs and investing more $22.4 million in the Commonwealth.

The continuing importance of openability as the packaging issue that most concerns consumers will be underlined by Payne managing director Martin Dallas at EasyFairs Packaging Innovations at the NEC in February.