
Mondi acquires mill in Canada
Mondi is entering a long-term partnership with West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd and acquired their 250,000 tonne per annum Hinton Pulp mill in Canada.
Mondi is entering a long-term partnership with West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd and acquired their 250,000 tonne per annum Hinton Pulp mill in Canada.
To provide more transparency on the footprint of its products, Avery Dennison is implementing the Carbon Trust Footprinting Tool.
By 2030 Tubex wants to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 42 percent compared to 2020. This target was now approved by SBTi.
Stora Enso and AFRY have come together to convert Stora Enso’s paper machine in Oulu, Finland, into a consumer board production line.
Even if some company CEOs would prefer differently: Nobody can be the market leader in everything. Some companies therefore enter into cooperations to be able to offer their customers more comprehensive and adapted solutions. Around 86,000 cooperations outside the proprietary business group have been noted by the EU Statistical Office since 2020, involving small and medium-sized enterprises within the EU. The example of Koch Pac-Systeme and Zahoransky shows the details of how such a cooperation can work.
Next to the energy crisis, the lack of resources, problems along the supply chain and the constant issue of sustainability, it is the lack of trained professionals that continues to affect the industry. Added to this is the fact that existing staff keep being confronted with continually new machine technology and new materials. Schubert meets both challenges with an expanded training concept.
SustainaPac LLC has joined PulPac’s licensee network aiming to strengthen the shift from single-use plastics to more sustainable alternatives.
At the Flexography Congress in Dijon, France, Coveris received a silver and bronze award in two categories for its packaging films.
The German economy is characterised by medium-sized companies which. The Felix Schoeller Group is one of these so-called hidden champions.
2022 ends with a new acquisition by Marchesini Group. The target is Rejves Machinery Srl, a company from Marmirolo (Mantua) which specialises in the construction of filling and capping machines for packaging cosmetic, pharmaceutical, chemical and food products. As a result of the operation, Rejves Machinery Srl joins the team of the Pianoro (Bologna) multinational, one of the world’s top producers of technologies for packaging drugs, vaccines and beauty products.
Smurfit Kappa has signed an agreement to acquire Pusa Pack S.L., a bag-in-box packaging plant located in the Valencia region in Spain.
Packaging specialist Theegarten-Pactec has invested in the Turkish company Makrev Packaging and hopes to provide new solutions to customers.
After eight months of war, CEO of Ukrainian printing company Slavena, Valeriia Grankina, looks back at what has changed in the Ukrainian printing industry. For packaging journal, she takes a look at different types of companies that are still operating and how the competition on the market has changed.
In almost 30 million homes in Germany, at least once a year someone reaches for a product with the unmistakable brand logo in red and gold. Whether stock cubes or powdered stock, ready meals like ravioli or helpful seasonings for cooking, like the „Fix“ product line: most people will have held a Maggi product in their hand already. This year sees the 125th anniversary of the products in Germany, and their range has kept steadily growing. Regarding their packaging design, the Swiss have remained true to their beginnings for their entire company history, following the motto: never change a winning team. This traditional brand offers convincing proof that packaging can be much more than a mere protective shell for a product.
With an investment of 94 million US dollars, Gerresheimer is expanding its production, supply and logistics capacities for glass vials in the USA.