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Wine specialist, South Wine Company, is expanding its range of packaging and is now making its “Odyssey”-brand quality wines available on the Russian market in aseptic carton packs. 

Innovia Group has entered an agreement to sell its cellophane business and assets  to Nagoya, Japan-based Futamura Chemicals Co.,Ltd, a manufacturer of plastic and cellulose films. The deal is expected to complete on or before June 30, 2016. 

Oracle Packaging, a leading innovator in packaging solutions in the flexible packaging market, has added a Davis-Standard extrusion line as part of a capital investment at its Winston-Salem, North Carolina facility. 

Packaging in the healthcare market is a growing industry with many challenges to overcome and exciting opportunities to be had.

Prolamina, a brand division of ProAmapc, will display its full PRO-FLEX line of cheese packaging solutions at the International Cheese Technology Exposition (ICTE), April 12-14, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 

Uflex plans to display a state-of-the-art UV process manufactured Fresnel, diffractive, holographic and hybrid (combination) lens embossed films for both generalized patterns and customized specialty films in a roll format at Drupa, scheduled for May 31 to June 10 in Dusseldorf, Germany. 

Toppan USA, Inc., a Griffin, Georgia-based subsidiary of Tokyo-based Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. has completed construction of its new Georgia plant, a site for the manufacture of transparent barrier films.

Label Specialties Inc., a trade-only label converter in Louisville, Kentucky, has received approval to produce drum labels on flexographic presses that fully meet the Globally Harmonized System (GHS) requirements for overseas shipments.

MonoSol, a leader in water-soluble films, will open a new $95-million state-of-the-art production plant in Portage, Indiana on April 19, 2016.