US flexible liquid packaging specialist Liqui-Box has agreed to shed its bag-in-box (BiB) business to comply with the requirements of the UK competition watchdog ahead its planned €530m acquisition of DS Smith’s flexible plastic packaging unit.
A small-scale PET recycling project — but one with some large-scale names behind it — is creating sample bottles partially made from marine debris.
Austrian packaging group Alpla is consolidating its offerings in the pharma industry under the brand ALPLApharma, to be launched at the upcoming CPhI in Frankfurt, 5 to 7 Nov.
Spanish beauty packaging specialist Quadpack continues to grow with a new deal to purchase the cosmetics packaging business of Germany-based plastics processor Inotech Group.
Spanish beauty and health care packaging firm Quadpack has acquired German industrial cosmetics packaging company Louvrette to significantly improve its offerings, technology and market position in Europe.
Swiss chemicals company Clariant AG has teamed up with pigment supplier Merck KGaA and polymer producer Sabic to develop laser-marking technology and materials to ease the recycling process for flexible polyethylene (LDPE, LLDPE) packaging film.
Russia’s major film producer Biaxplen, part of Sibur Holding, has acquired a 50% stake in the Italian manufacturer of Biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) films Manucor SpA.
Huhtamaki Oyj has agreed to acquire a 70% stake in privately-owned South African flexible packaging manufacturer Everest Flexibles (Pty) Ltd, valued at €58m.
A joint venture scrap plastic recycling plant, formed by Dutch and local packaging producers, has started operating in the young Balkan state of Kosovo.
Spanish packaging specialist Emsur group has expanded its production with the inauguration of a new production hall at its Emsur Madrid headquarters location, in Alcalá de Henares.
Waste Free Oceans (WFO) has helped form a new partnership with the leading frozen food brand in Belgium - Iglo - to fight plastic waste pollution.
Following its move into Europe earlier in April, US flexible packaging start-up ePac will start production in Silverstone, the UK in late October.
Austrian flexible packaging firm Constantia Flexibles has completed its acquisition of a majority stake in the Moscow-based Packaging firm TT-print.
