The Dow Chemical Company and Karlville Development Group have signed a collaboration agreement to facilitate the acceptance and proliferation of Dow’s flexible PacXpert™ Packaging Technology in the marketplace. Through the agreement, Karlville will supply machinery for pouch making, spout inserting, and filling and capping equipment from their SPOUTPRO product line while also providing technical support and service to all users.
Health and wellness food company Atkins Nutrition has launched Atkins Harvest, a new sub range of carb-lite, low sugar, gluten free bars, into the U.K. with strategy, identity and packaging design by Brandon. The new range aims to move Atkins into the gluten free aisle, as the trend for healthy eating continues to sweep the U.K. and shoppers look for guilt-free snacking alternatives.
Bibo Barmaid of Annandale, New Jersey, recently partnered with Bemis Co., Inc. to produce individually-sized cocktail mix pouches for the first at-home cocktail machine that produces the drink in less than 20 seconds
The Sigpack VPF (Vertical Platform for Flat Pouches), the first freely scalable flat pouch machine from Bosch, has been honored with the German Design Award 2018 in the Excellent Product Design category. The German Design Award is the second prestigious accolade for the Sigpack VPF following the German Packaging Award in 2016.
The 500th machine of W&H's MIRAFLEX series, a MIRAFLEX II CM8, has been purchased by the Pakistani packaging manufacturer Packages Limited, marking a milestone for the flexo printing press family that was initially launched at Drupa 2008.
Sun Chemical has finalized the formation of a joint venture with Saudi Arabia-based Alliance Holding Company Ltd., the parent company of Ink Products Company Ltd. It will now operate under the name Sun Chemical Saudi Arabia Ltd.
Expanding its range of in-mold label products, Flint Group has announced the global availability of Novastar D 2000 IML BIO for metallized paper and non-absorbent substrates.