BW Integrated Systems, a Barry-Wehmiller packaging company, has promoted Eric Collier to Executive Vice President of Global Commercial Operations. In his six years with the company, Collier has made a significant impact on BW Integrated Systems’ position in the market with clients around the globe, while strengthening the commercial team.

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Blue Box Partners, the pan-European Alliance of suppliers for corrugated board packaging solutions, has launched Ecogrip, a corrugated alternative to shrink wrap for the multi-packing of a wide range of bottles that builds on the growing consumer demand for sustainable packaging.

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Can paper labels, which are made entirely from recycled material, solve the same demanding logistical tasks as labels made from fresh fibres? The self-adhesive specialist Herma conducted a successful large-scale trial on its own behalf – and then completely changed the self-adhesive material in its standardized shipping labels for self-adhesive material rolls. The company produces a total of more than one million of these so-called EPSMA roll labels alone each year.

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JPF Netherlands B.V., the holding company of Jindal Films Europe, an international provider of innovative and sustainable films for flexible packaging industry, has signed an agreement for the acquisition of 100% of the shares in Italy-based nylon film specialist Domo Films Solutions (DFS) from private owned group Domo Chemicals.

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Avery Dennison announced today that it has acquired the business of Ohio-based Acpo for the purchase price of $87.6 million, subject to certain post-closing adjustments. The company is a leader in pressure-sensitive overlaminate products for the label and flexible packaging markets and has approximately 170 employees.

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Mondi has launched a new paper EcoWicketBag for Drylock Technologies’ baby diaper ranges, bringing sustainable paper-based packaging to the hygiene market globally. The global hygiene products manufacturer approached Mondi to create a more sustainable alternative to its existing plastic diaper packaging that would travel well, have strong shelf-appeal, and protect the product - while also using renewable resources and significantly reducing its CO2 footprint.

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H.B. Fuller announced readily available adhesive grades with hot melt advanced technology for extreme cold storage of vaccines and medication packaging. Advantra® adhesives provide a secure bond at -70 C with tamper evident fiber tear.

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Approved by the FDA, the Covid-19 vaccine produced by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer will be rolled out throughout the US to fight the pandemic. Pfizer and the US government have agreed on the shipment of 3 million frozen doses to reach all areas of the country.

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To keep growing within the sector, Aranow Machinery Group announces the acquisition of the company Altero Recycling Solutions, an expert in plastics recycling.

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A.P. Moller Holding, the parent company of the A.P. Moller Group, has signed an agreement to acquire Faerch, the world’s sustainable food packaging company, from funds managed by Advent International.

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The international Cosmoprof Bologna exhibition, the b2b format dedicated to the beauty sector, collecting a community of over 600,000 operators and more than 10,000 companies from all over the world, is ready to confirm its role as special partner for business development.

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Global contract packaging organisation (CPO), Tjoapack, has announced a €10m+ investment into its packaging and supply chain facility in Etten-Leur, Netherlands over the next two years.

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Located in Filderstadt near Stuttgart (Germany), Herma confirmed a planned change in management. On 1 March 2021 Dr. Guido Spachtholz (47) is to succeed Dr. Thomas Baumgärtner, who is retiring, as managing director and head of the self-adhesive technology specialist’s Self-adhesive Materials division. Dr. Spachtholz will start to familiarise himself with his new roles in Filderstadt, where further major expansion work was recently completed, in January.

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The IMA Group, expert in automatic packaging machines, is developing more and more often technologies that offer sustainable solutions, based on waste reduction and the use of materials with a low environmental impact.

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Greif-Velox, German manufacturer of full-line packaging machines for solids, powders and liquids supplying customers in 89 countries, has a new location in America. Greif-Velox America LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary based in Sacramento will operate regional sales and service in North, Central and South America.

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Tekni-Plex has invested approximately $2 million in a new narrow web, flexographic press to meet printed lidding demands for larger-sized medical devices. The press is located at the company’s Ashland, Massachusetts, facility and is due to be operational in January.

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This year’s winners of the Supply Chain Award and the Smart Solutions Award were honoured on 10 November in the context of the EXCHAiNGE 2020 trade fair. The latter was won by Schubert Additive Solutions for its Partbox part streaming platform.

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Duravant LLC, a global engineering equipment and automation solutions provider to the food processing, packaging and material handling sectors, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Cloud Packaging Solutions from its parent company, Hearthside Food Solutions LLC. Cloud is a manufacturer of high-speed horizontal flexible packaging equipment headquartered in Des Plaines, IL.

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Faerch, supplier of trays for the global food industry and integrated tray recycler, announced the strategic acquisition of the Sirap food packaging business in Italy, Poland and Spain, from Italmobiliare (Italy), and thereby strengthens its PanEuropean footprint.

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Rondo-Pak, LLC, joint venture with Körber Pharma, is a provider of folding cartons and printed components for the pharmaceutical, medical device and consumer industries. The company has continued to expand capacity at its primary facilities in Camden, New Jersey and San Juan, Puerto Rico, through infrastructure investment.

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AptarGroup announces that it has acquired all operating assets and the proprietary portfolio of Cohero Health, a digital therapeutics company transforming respiratory disease management for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD). Founded in 2013, New York-based Cohero Health develops innovative digital tools and technologies to improve respiratory care, reduce avoidable costs and optimize medication utilization.

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O-I Glass, Inc. and Germany’s Krones AG signed a strategic collaboration agreement that aims to elevate glass by innovating together and to jointly create solutions for the growing glass market. “For O-I, glass is the preferred packaging solution in a world that increasingly values health, premium products and the environment. Not only does it maintain the integrity of the products and protects the environment, as customers and consumers intend, but it also offers magnificent opportunities for establishing brands and implementing sustainable solutions,” explains Andres Lopez, President and CEO at O-I. “This agreement is the first step that O-I and Krones are taking together in order to offer clients completely integrated, end-to-end solutions in the future.”

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With growing interest from the world’s largest consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands for customer-engaging glow-in-the-dark (GID) inks on food and beverage packaging, Chromatic Technologies Inc. (CTI) introduces highly-anticipated water-based GID formulas for paper and film substrates.

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This acquisition strengthens Nemera’s proprietary product offering and establishes operations footprint in Eastern Europe. Nemera today announced that they have entered into an agreement to acquire Copernicus.

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In summer 2020, Rethink Robotics, as a subsidiary of the Hahn Group, moved into its new company headquarters, where the production of collaborative robot systems takes place as well.

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Tri-Seal, a Tekni-Plex business, has invested $1 million in a new closure liner manufacturing facility in Greater Noida, India.

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Südpack is expanding the production plant at its site in Klobuck near Czestochowa, Poland. In an official ceremony marking the occasion, ground was broken for an extensive investment at the site.

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Aptar Food + Beverage launches its new SimpliCycle™ recyclable valve technology. The new valve offers recyclability while still maintaining all of the same advantages of Aptar’s standard and Swimming® Silicone valves, including high repeatable performance and slit versatility to fit a wide variety of applications for food, beverage, and other product applications around the world.

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In Qingdao, Shandong province, China, the research team led by Xu Jiachao, a professor at the College of Food Science and Engineering at Ocean University of China, made food wrappers to replace plastic from alginate, an extract from brown algae, that is renewable and nontoxic, and shows excellent film-forming properties when crosslinked by calcium ions.

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The Bundesrat (upper house of the German parliament) voted to extend the compulsory deposit to all plastic bottles and beverage cans.

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