Packaging 
France-based Aptar Pharma is hoping to expand its presence in the Indian medical market with a new manufacturing plant near Mumbai.
1 February 2012
The European Commission is concerned that France has incorrectly implemented the definition of packaging and packaging waste in its national law, as required by EU waste legislation
30 January 2012
Dow Performance Packaging is one of the sponsors of the IPI International Packaging Institute in Schaffhausen, Switzerland
30 January 2012
Bemis will close two additional North American plants this year, bringing the total number of shuttered facilities to five
27 January 2012
Three students at Birmingham City University have won an international design competition organised by PET packaging company Petainer of the UK. The winning design is a sleek, upmarket table sauce bottle for ketchup, mayonnaise and other sauce-based condiments.
22 December 2011
Beverage giant Coca-Cola Co is making what it said was a multi-million dollar investment in three bio-based companies - Virent and Gevo in the US, and Avantium in the Netherlands - in an effort to accelerate the development of a PlantBottle made entirely from plant-based feedstocks.
16 December 2011
DuPont’s Surlyn thermoplastic alloy has been overmoulded on a glass perfume bottle for a novel aesthetic effect, and improved protection against damage or breakage
15 December 2011
APPE, the packaging division of La Seda de Barcelona, has invested €1.5m to develop and install Sample-PreWatcher technology from inspection system supplier Intravis. The new system checks key quality parameters in preforms automatically
14 December 2011
Korean polymer additives maker Songwon Industrial Group announced 13 December it has acquired German company Additives Technology Greiz, to expand its offerings in the ‘one pack systems’ market
14 December 2011
Bad news for PVC packaging continues to mount as Hasbro plans to eliminate PVC from core product packaging beginning in 2013. The US-based firm has already begun to phase out PVC from some packaging
12 December 2011
Sanner, the German company that specializes in desiccants, closures and other plastic packaging products, has expanded its plant in Kunshan, China, and opened a sales office in Indonesia.
7 December 2011
The German Green Party has called for a punitive tax on plastic carrier bags in the country, which has drawn a fierce response from the German association of plastics packaging, IK Industrievereinigung Kunststoffverpackungen. The party should "listen to factual arguments", it said.
6 December 2011
Continuing growth in the European recycling rate for plastics packaging could result in 100% diversion from landfill by 2020. This ambition has been given support by 2010 region-wide figures released by EPRO.
1 December 2011
Australia’s competition watchdog is investigating whether global packaging supplier Amcor’s proposed acquisition of flexible packaging supplier Aperio Group Australia would lessen competition in the market
29 November 2011
Borealis will launch the latest addition to its range of BorPure random polypropylene (PP) copolymers with improved organoleptics at the Thin Wall Packaging 2011 conference, 6-8 December in Cologne, Germany
25 November 2011
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