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Global availability of Tetra Gemina Aseptic

Global availability of Tetra Gemina Aseptic

Tetra Pak today announced the global availability of Tetra Gemina™ Aseptic, the world's first roll-fed gable top shaped package with full aseptic performance for the packaging of both juice and milk-based products.

Rapid collapse of prices for steel products

Rapid collapse of prices for steel products

In summer last year the manufacturers of tin plate packaging and closures still faced drastic rises in the price of supply materials. Then the December motto ran: feedstock prices for sheet steel packaging no longer follow spot market prices. The result is great insecurity amongst steel processing companies and their industrial buyers.

Double shelf life for fresh poultry

Double shelf life for fresh poultry

Teva-Off, Israel, launches fresh poultry with an eight-day shelf life. This surpasses all other fresh meat and poultry products available in the marketplace.

Optimising the weight of PET packaging

Optimising the weight of PET packaging

Container weight is a crucial factor in the packaging of many products as it greatly influences both logistic aspects and consumer habits. Compared to traditional materials such as glass and metal, the use of plastics has brought about a large reduction in packaging weight.

Nonverbal packaging

Nonverbal packaging

Creativeness out-of-bounds, a furious interplay of colours and shapes, exploding into brainchildren and fetching ideas of a genius, eventually converging on a perfect solution.

Dell reduces computer packaging

Dell reduces computer packaging

Dell says it`s implementing a new computer packaging plan that will result in estimated savings of more than $8 million and the elimination of approximately 20 million pounds of packaging material over the next four years.

Bormioli Rocco`s new bottle and combinations for the dropper pipettes

Bormioli Rocco`s new bottle and combinations for the dropper pipettes

The PET bottles family destined to the pharmaceutical market expands with the launch of the 500 ml bottle with rectangular basis. Made by the injection-stretching-blowing technique with neck finish PFP 28, the new PET bottle available in amber stands next to the already existing 200 ml bottle.

Multivac wins German Packaging Award

Multivac wins German Packaging Award

Multivac has received the 2008 German Packaging Award for its new generation of thermoform packaging machines. The German Packaging Institute (DVI) presented the award in the category of machine technology. This is the second major prize that Multivac has received this year for its new machine generation, after having previously been honored with the renowned iF Packaging Award.

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