Hoorah for East Midlands Packaging Businesses! I chair the East Midlands Packaging Society and we visited Mercury last year. Very interesting too. (Martin)
Mercury Packaging was recently shortlisted for a Food Processing Award. One of five finalists in the Packaging Solutions category, the leading UK flexible packaging specialist was nominated for the variety of high quality, [...]
Now, you see, this is what I think biodegradeable ought to mean! (Martin)
Scientists from the ?zmir Institute of High Technology ?YTE have recently developed flexible packaging materials by incorporating substances such as egg white and corn protein into edible film. The scientists hope to see production of the new product within three to four years.
via Turkish [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Delighted to have been able to go along to the UK Packaging Awards last night, presented by Packaging News. They are always good nights, and I quite like getting dressed up in my monkey suit and schmoozing the great and the good of the industry. I can also tie my own bow tie, which means [...]
Don’t understand this story from America at all – 100% polyester lidding films have been available in the UK for 20 years from companies like FFP Packaging Solutions. And I’m not sure 2.5mm works as a film thickness either! There has been a lot of work by FFP and maybe some others in reducing film [...]
Really interesting artice about stand-up pouch development (Martin)
In the 1950s cellophane was the only clear film material available as flexible packaging material. In the 1960s, flexible packages started to evolve, with new processes and material innovations introduced at a daily basis. While many bags and pouches were made of coated papers, polypropylene and polyethylene came [...]
Amcor Flexibles is to cut around half the workforce at its Ilkeston site after Allied Bakeries moved a £30m bread bag-making contract to Bpi.consumer VMB.
Consultations with staff and unions over 75 job losses at the flexibles site, which currently employs around 140 workers, began this week after the bakery decided to move the contract.
Meanwhile Bpi.consumer [...]
FFP Packaging Solutions of Northampton have produced new printed laminate flexible packaging for Marks and Spencer’s fishcakes and crispbakes ranges, consisting of twelve product lines across the two complementary product groups. Marks and Spencer went for a consistent look and feel, with a deep black offset by a different colour cue in the body of [...]
