After a rough 2009 for the packaging industry, the Flexible Packaging Association predicts that its segment will rebound along with the U.S. economy and perhaps at an even faster clip.Speaking Thursday at the FPA's 2010 annual meeting in Orlando, John Baumann, president and CEO of Ampac Packaging and new chairman of the FPA, delivered the [...]
This is good news – as long as you’re a metal or glass producer, less good for the plastics sector, I suspect. For me, it all depends how deep they are going to go when they consider Carbon issues. There is a mind-boggling complexity at work – for example, how do bioplastics fare, when you [...]
Amcor announced today that it has completed its $1.95 billion acquisition of the Alcan Packaging businesses, including the former Alcan Packaging Global Pharmaceuticals, Food Europe, Food Asia and Global Tobacco divisions. The purchase consideration represents a profit before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization PBITDA multiple of 5.1 times based on earnings for the year ended [...]
Great news for Amberley, who have been pushing new ideas, particularly in digital labels, for some time. I have to say though that there are too many companies who are happy to let their suppliers control their image by sending out press releases on their behalf – HP is a great company, but WHY didn’t [...]
A great article by Richard Cooper of IOM3, feauring yours truly, Chris Penfold and JoAnn Hines, the Packaging Diva (Martin)
Social networking sites can boost your packaging know how and aid company promotion, but it helps to understand the platforms first. Richard Cooper, IOM3 Webmaster, speaks to prominent users.
‘Hundreds of people an hour are discussing packaging [...]
And again – compliance ain’t hard, but it needs to be considered. I wonder whether packaging manufacturers ought to be doing more to advise their customers. After all, they live in the industry, while the poor product manufacturer is focused on his own business. For example, GHD, the hair straightener people, were fined £9000. They [...]
Mondi Packaging Wheatley is to become the group flexo printing following an expansion of the site and the creation of 30 new jobs.
The Scunthorpe site has been expanded by 2,500m² and a new 2,600m² warehouse has been taken into operation, leading to the creation of the new positions.
via Mondi makes Scunthorpe site beacon for flexo [...]
The Times has published an exposé of Manchester University’s Sustainable Consumption Institute being funded to the tune of £25 million by Tesco. In SCI’s latest report, they favourably mention Tesco’s green point scheme for reusing carrier bags while ignoring the Irish compulsory bag charge scheme. Now, while I realise that University departments have to develop [...]
But we already knew this, didn’t we!? (Martin)
For a few days each year, the packaging and processing communities come together at PACK EXPO to network, exchange ideas and do business. There’s nothing that replaces face-to-face connections, but there’s another way to foster the business relationships that are the hallmark of PACK EXPO: Social media.“More than [...]
This has been an open secret for weeks. Flexible Packaging is one of my main ‘things’ and this looks dangerously like monopoly to me at the high-volume end of the market. I think people like Nestlé and Cadbury will be asking serious questions. (Martin)
Amcor has today confirmed a $2.025bn offer to buy Alcan’s pharmaceuticals, food [...]
