New medical package offering improved opportunities for real-time adherence control
Stora Enso Pharma DDSi Wireless - a new medical package offering improved opportunities for real-time adherence control.
Packagings
News Plastech
EquiTherm – unprecedentedly high primary energy savings in the brewing process
One major focus of Krones’ process technology lies in the development of system components that make use of energy-saving potentials in order to minimise environmental impact and progress resource-economy.
Uncan: new packaging delivered by RPC Corby
RPC Containers Corby has launched the ‘Uncan,’ an enhanced range of retortable barrier jars for catering applications that represents an ideal mix of food-safe, long-life, lightweight jars with significant large-format cost savings.
Plastics bags in Italy still illegal
Italian plastics processor association Unionplast has failed in an attempt to have new legislation banning non-biodegradable plastics shopping bags declared illegal.
Producers save time and energy with nucleating and clarifying agents
Plastics additives producer Milliken will be at Interpack to demonstrate how its market-leading Millad clarifying agents and Hyperform HPN nucleating agents can make major contributions to converters’ process economics while ensuring improved product performance.
Over 400 Renowned Exhibitors at Sino-Pack / Drinktec 2011
The largest packaging and beverage technology exhibition in China - The 18th China International Exhibition on Packaging Machinery & Materials (Sino-Pack 2011) and The 15th China International Exhibition on Brewery, Beverage and Liquid Packaging (China Drinktec 2011) will be staged at China Import & Export Fair Pazhou Complex, Guangzhou, PR China during 9-11 March 2011.
Asia is booming in packaging
China has developed into a global super power with giant strides. According to estimates of the German professional association VDMA Chinese machinery manufacturers took the lead for the first time in 2009.
Greener Bottle launched by Volvic
Volvic has launched its Greener Bottle made from 20 percent sugarcane waste. The beverage maker says it is the first UK company to introduce a 100 percent recyclable PET plastic bottle using this renewable plant material.
Soft drinks guidelines calls for 100% PET recyclability
Packaging industry trade associations are encouraging their members to follow a new set of guidelines to ensure that PET bottles are compatible with recycling facilities.
Printing on bioactive paper
An enzyme printing process that prints the product of an enzyme-catalysed reaction, but not the enzyme molecule itself, has been designed by scientists in Australia to produce bioactive paper.
Tale of three countries with high plastics packaging recycling rates
Acording the PlasticsEurope yearly analysis Plastics - the facts 2010, the three EU Member States Belgium, Germany and Sweden all achieve high recycling rates for plastics packaging through different systems.
DSM Engineering Plastics introduces green packaging solutions
DSM Engineering Plastics, one of the world's leading suppliers of engineering thermoplastics, has introduced a number of innovative Eco packaging solutions that anticipate and proactively address market demands.
