Engineered equipment company Duravant expands its global offerings with acquisition of Motion06, an Austrian manufacturer of specialized conveyor modules.
UPM Raflatac announces that its pressure sensitive label factory in Mills River is the first manufacturing facility in North Carolina whose electrical supply is generated entirely by renewable sources.
Jabil Packaging Solutions introduces a new suite of sustainable packaging services that enable CPG brands to deliver innovative sustainable packaging formats into the marketplace.
Borealis announces the introduction of a new plastics recycling technology, Borcycle, that will be used to produce high-quality compounds made of recycled polyolefins.
The shipments value of primary plastics machinery (injection molding and extrusion) in North America declined in the first quarter of 2019, according to the Plastics Industry Association.
European companies Neste and LyondellBasell have announced the first parallel production of bio-based polypropylene and bio-based low-density polyethylene at a commercial scale.
Canada-based Premier Tech has acquired IDTec Automatización,a leading integrator of robotic systems specialized in end-of-line applications and material handling solutions in Mexico.
Increasing consumer demands for convenient packages, coupled with an industry-wide push for sustainable shelf-ready designs has the global flexible packaging market poised to eclipse the $290 billion mark by 2023.