Silgan Holdings expects recent food packaging acquisitions to drive an increase in profits in 2011 after the company reported a dip in net income for the past year.
Food processor Orval Kent Food Company has agreed to pay US$390,000 (€282,000) over allegations that industrial wastewater from one of its US plants overloaded a municipal treatment system, polluting a large stretch of a nearby river.
Analysing the carbon footprint of Kingsmill loaves has helped Allied Bakeries squeeze out additional cost savings that it would not have extracted through traditional continuous improvement techniques, its operations director has claimed.
Closed Loop Recycling has announced a £12m (€14m) expansion plan that the company claims will double the current capacity of its London site to 60,000 tonnes.
API Group confirmed today that it has completed the sale of its majority stake in its loss-making Chinese foil venture, Shanghai Shen Yong Stamping Foil.
A significant boost in detection capabilities, flexibility and the assurance of food quality and safety compliance are benefits claimed by Mettler Toledo Safeline for its new metal detection system for free-falling products in vertically packed lines.
Low-dose e-beam radiation under modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) is a viable alternative to chlorine to reduce microbes or eliminate Salmonella and Listeria from baby spinach, claims US research.
A host of big names in UK food and drink including Associated British Foods, Coca-Cola Enterprises and Kraft Foods have added their signatures to the second phase of the Courtauld Commitment.
RockTenn has acquired fellow containerboard and corrugated packaging supplier Smurfit-Stone in a $3.5bn deal, months after Smurfit-Stone emerged from bankruptcy.
BASF has obtained certification from the German Technical Inspection Agency (TÜV) for a new biodegradable adhesive used on flexible packaging applications like potato chips and chocolate wrappings.
US bioplastic firm Cereplast has announced two new distribution agreements in Poland and Romania that will aid its expansion into Central and Eastern European markets, according to the company.
A UK robotics body is incentivising the food and drink industry to look at ways investment in the technology can optimise manufacturing and enable more flexible ways of working.
Technology to extract water from potatoes for reuse in processing will go some way to helping PepsiCo UK and Ireland achieve its pledge of unplugging its largest sites from the water mains by 2018, said the snack maker in a new report.
The maturity of many products means that growth in US demand for green packaging will be a relatively modest 3.9 per cent per year until 2014, according to a new industry report.
Lightweighting, cost reduction as well as improved oxygen and moisture barrier performance, are claims made by InMat for its new water-based nanocomposite coating for flexible packaging.
Stora Enso has announced it is to make a €285m investment in Poland to boost its containerboard capacity in the key growth market in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).
A move by the EU Ministers to back a draft regulation dubbed the most significant change in food contact legislation in 20 years should ease its passage into European law, said Nick Kernoghan of Pira International.
Additional safeguards to reduce the risk of chemicals migrating from inks in packaging to food products are included in a new edition of the British Retail Consortium (BRC) Global Standard for Packaging.
Sun European Partners, the private equity company that bought Huhtamaki’s rigid packaging business last month, said the European sector is ripe for consolidation as it served notice to become a major player in the region.
The emergence of new materials and major suppliers are set to shake up the global market for bioplastic packaging over the next decade, according to a report from Pira International.
Varying the extrusion conditions of snacks made with lentil flour may help to create more acceptable sensory attributes in new product development, according to a new study.
Adept Technology announced yesterday it is to acquire robotics company InMoTx in a bid to expand its product range in the “fast-growing” food packaging and processing industries.
Leading European plastic film producer, RKW, has acquired US barrier film and label manufacturer Danafilms in a move that it claims will give it greater access to the North American market.
Huhtamaki has completed the sale of its European rigid plastics operations and immediately served notice of its expansion plans thanks to an acquisition fund of around €300m.
The UK is to slash funding to the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) by almost ₤21m (€24.6m) next year but the organisation remained confident it would have enough cash to deliver its major objectives.
Technology to allow the recycling of any plastic has taken a major step forward thanks to the development of a breakthrough process, researchers from the UK have claimed.
Germany recycled 96 per cent of aluminium beverage cans that are part of a national deposit scheme in 2009 – the highest rate in Europe, according to a survey by research institute GVM Gesellschaft für Verpackungsmarktforschung.
The results of the inaugural FoodProductionDaily.com survey gauging the outlook for the food and drink processing industry reveal that commodity and packaging material price increases, the bugbear of the past few months, are proving a challenge for 80...
Huhtamaki said its decision to reveal for the first time in 2010 a definite forecast for its full year EBIT did not signal a huge jump in its operating profits or a change in the overall economic environment.
Amcor has announced it is to close a flexible packaging plant in Scotland with the loss of 77 jobs following a serious fire at the factory earlier this year.
Silgan Holdings said it has reached a definitive agreement to buy the food can operations of Austrian company Vogel & Noot for €250m as part of a strategy to expand into Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).
Visitors to Emballage 2010 in Paris were given a world tour of ‘incredible packaging’ from students at Strate College Designers. Our camera to a look at some of their discoveries and asked what influenced their decisions.
One of the globe’s largest fresh-cut onion processing plants is expected to save hundreds of thousands of dollars each year after installing a 600-kilowatt energy storage system that will cut the company’s dependence on peak rate electricity and provide...
Northern Ireland should aim for significantly higher recycling targets of between 60-70 per cent compared with 50 per cent at present, warns the province’s minister for the environment.
DS Smith plans to become the leading supplier of recycled packaging for consumer goods in Europe, turning attention away from its paper manufacturing and office products businesses.
Superior properties such as lightweighting and barrier protection will enable plastic packaging growth to outstrip that of paper in almost all US markets to the end of 2014, according to one industry report.
