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EC clears Amcor acquisition

03-Jul-2002 - The European Commission has approved the acquisition by the Australian company Amcor of the world-wide plastic packaging (PET) and closure businesses of the German company...

03-Jul-2002 - Jefferson Smurfit Group, the world's leading paper-based packaging company, has announced details of its new customer service initiative, the "Smurfit Extranet". Developed for its corrugated...

Kellogg packaging partnership

03-Jul-2002 - Commerce One, the Business Internet Company, has announced that it will help Kellogg Company publish critical product information relating to future packaging design. By participating...

Vertex spins off packaging division

02-Jul-2002 - Vertex, Carter Holt Harvey, the New Zealand-based packaging provider, has successfully spun off its plastics packaging business. Vertex raised NZ$61 million (€30m) from the flotation....

Alcoa completes Ivex acquisition

02-Jul-2002 - Alcoa, a leading manufacturer of specialty plastics food packaging, has completed its previously announced agreement to acquire Chicago-based Ivex Packaging Corporation. The acquisition excludes Ivex's...

Thai pineapple processors await action

02-Jul-2002 - Thailand's pineapple growers have been waiting for a year for the government's promised help for the industry to materialise. Last July, the government said it...

Vetropack acquires Slovakia facility

02-Jul-2002 - Vetropack, a leading Swiss manufacturer of glass packaging, has agreed to acquire the Slovakian glassworks Skloobal, Nemsová. Vetropack has its group management in Bülach (Zurich),...

Sensitech wins innovator award

02-Jul-2002 - Sensitech, a leading global supplier of cold chain monitoring systems to the food industry, has been named an "Innovator of the Year" by SBANE (Smaller...

Earthshell consolidates

01-Jul-2002 - Californian-based EarthShell has confirmed that it has laid off 65 per cent of its staff and cut expenses by $2 million (€2m) a month as...

Bavaria invests €1billion

01-Jul-2002 - Colombian brewery Bavaria has announced major plans to invest $1 billion (€1bn) over the next few years to modernise and expand its current production facilities....

Catfish processing expansion

01-Jul-2002 - In the US, Farm Fresh Catfish Company, one of the country's largest processors of catfish, has announced plans for major restructuring and expansion. Willard R....

Wellman announces PET resins expansions

01-Jul-2002 - Wellman, the US-based manufacturer of polyester products used in packaging resins, has announced that it is taking steps to expand its PET resins capacity by...

Arla buys Triple F facility

01-Jul-2002 - Arla Foods of Arhus, Denmark, through its subsidiary Medipharm, Sweden, and Triple "F", of Des Moines, Iowa have announced a restructuring of their partnership Medipharm...

Minute Maid Company to build juice plant

01-Jul-2002 - The Minute Maid Company is to build a new 620,000-square-foot non-carbonated beverage production plant in Auburndale, Florida. The Minute Maid Company is an operating division...

Pechiney wants to boost internet orders

28-Jun-2002 - Pechiney, the French aluminium and packaging group, says it aims to register about €300 million in internet orders this year for its aluminium sector. The...

SSCC mills to be upgraded

28-Jun-2002 - Jefferson Smurfit's US associate company will have to pay around $125 million (€126m) on its pulp mills in order for them to comply with tough...

Bunzl cuts through paper links

28-Jun-2002 - Packaging group Bunzl, which supplies food packaging to the European market, is cutting its historic links with the paper industry, under a deal to offload...

Rexam opens new facility

27-Jun-2002 - The US division of Rexam Closures & Containers has opened a $30 million facility in Madisonville, Kentucky, that will produce packaging products. The facility, which...

Solvay expands plant

27-Jun-2002 - Solvay Advanced Polymers, the US-based provider of high-performance polymers to the food service industry, will expand the production capacity of its polyamide-imide (PAI) plant in...

Turkish food factory poses problems for Cargill

26-Jun-2002 - A €91 million sugar-substitute plant in western Turkey represents the biggest greenfield investment made outside the US by Cargill, the Minnesota-based food producer. Yet the...

Oils and fats megafactory'

26-Jun-2002 - The Alianza Team group of companies has said that it plans to construct a 'megafactory' in Barranquilla for the production of oils and fats in...

Coke Mongolia plant

26-Jun-2002 - Coca-Cola is to be manufactured in Mongolia for the first time after a bottling plant was opened in Ulaanbaatar this week. The factory was opened...

Water purification facility

26-Jun-2002 - True North Water of Canada has opened a new reverse osmosis purified drinking water plant in Mississauga. The fully automated state-of-the-art water purification facility has...

US conference focuses on future of packaging industry

26-Jun-2002 - The Worldpak conference, currently being held in Michigan, US, has brought to the fore the potential of the world's packaging industry. "It's the little recycled...

TurboSonic secures contract

26-Jun-2002 - TurboSonic Technologies of Waterloo has received an order worth €1 million for air-pollution control equipment, the company has said. The order is for a system...