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PET expands into dairy

25-Jun-2002 - PET packaging for dairy products is starting to take off in Europe, following the launch of a premium milk brand. Reed Kite Farms has chosen...

Dairy plans supply

25-Jun-2002 - Prescient Systems, a US-based provider of supply chain planning solutions, has supplied ice-cream maker Wells' Dairy with a Prescient XEi for its supply chain planning...

UK reconsiders package recycling

24-Jun-2002 - The UK government is re-forming the committee that advises it on regulations implementing recovery and recycling targets set by the EC Directive on Packaging and...

Battle for Brazil can market

24-Jun-2002 - CSN, the Brazil-based flat steelmaker, and Canadian aluminium manufacturer Alcan are on a head-on collision course over which will dominate the metal packaging market, reported...

King Oscar closes another plant

24-Jun-2002 - King Oscar will be left with one brisling sardine canning plant in Norway after the owners decided yesterday to close the King Oscar canning plant...

Canning and bottling slips in Japan

24-Jun-2002 - A report from the Japan Canners' Association puts last year's output of canned and bottled goods at 4,551,015 tonnes, down 6.4 per cent from year...

Tasty Baking names head of manufacturing

24-Jun-2002 - Joseph Bauerhas has been named vice president manufacturing at Tasty Baking Company, one of the largest independent bakeries in the US. Bauer, 55, will assume...

Pechiney speculates over Corus aluminium

21-Jun-2002 - French packaging and aluminium group Pechiney says it is still interested in the acquisition of the aluminium activities of Anglo-Dutch counterpart Corus, and that it...

Perrier to build third bottling plant in the US

21-Jun-2002 - Perrier Group of America has recently begun construction on a new $60 million (€62.3m), 400,000 sq ft bottled water plant in Hawkins, Texas - according...

Food packaging training

21-Jun-2002 - The British Retail Consortium will be holding a series of in depth course on how to implement the latest food packaging standards into the production...

21-Jun-2002 - International flavours and food ingredients manufacturer Quest International and its joint venture partner, Kuala Lumpur Kepong, are doubling the production capacity in their Malaysian emulsifier...

Pactiv plans ahead

20-Jun-2002 - Pactiv FoodService - Packaging Europe says it will close its Caerphilly, Wales thermoforming operation by the end of the year and consolidate production at its...

Baldwin expands

20-Jun-2002 - Baldwin Richardson Foods, one of the largest African-American owned food companies in the United States, has won a multi-million euro contract to supply Kellogg's Nutri-grain...

Burns Philp closes Melbourne facility

20-Jun-2002 - Burns Philp, an Australian food ingredients company, has announced the closure of a yeast manufacturing plant in South Yarra, Melbourne. The plant is expected to...

Six food parks planned in India

20-Jun-2002 - The Indian state of Karnataka aims to increase its food processing exports threefold within five years by setting up six exclusive food parks in different...

Packaging price increase

19-Jun-2002 - Sonoco, the global provider of packaging products for the food and beverage industry, has announced that it will increase prices for all coreboard grades manufactured...

Growing demand for food processing machinery

19-Jun-2002 - Worldwide demand for food processing machinery is projected to rise 4.6 per cent annually up until 2006, to $21 billion (€22bn), according to a study...

Beef processing plant

19-Jun-2002 - A privately held US start-up company, Mississippi Beef Processors, is planning to construct a new $32 million (€33.5m) beef slaughtering and processing plant in Oakland,...

TetraPak rival emerges

18-Jun-2002 - A new packaging material backed by former Tetra Pak boss Hans Rausing is making an impact on the food and beverage industry, reports dotpackaging.com. Developed...

Hygienic cert for Micro Motion technology

18-Jun-2002 - Micro Motion's R-Series meter, which measures and transmits mass flow rate for liquids and gases, can now be used in food and beverage applications said...

US packaging producers form joint venture in Russia

18-Jun-2002 - US companies MeadWestvaco and EastPrint have created a new consumer packaging company in Russia called WestvacoEastPrint. The new business will begin operations in autumn and...

New Tetra CEO

17-Jun-2002 - Larry Pillard is to leave his job as chief executive of Tate & Lyle to take over the executive chairmanship of Tetra Laval, the privately...

Dairy Crest expands facilities

17-Jun-2002 - UK dairy foods group Dairy Crest is to pump £41 million (€64m) into expanding and upgrading its cheddar-making plant in Cornwall, according to a report...

Rexam rejigs European plants

17-Jun-2002 - Rexam, the US-based global packaging provider, is to buy the Czech can making plant of German-based packaging company Schmalbach-Lubeca for £15.4 million (€24m), according to...

Caution versus creativity

17-Jun-2002 - Long-established brand icons such as Toblerone chocolate and Polo mints would be considered unacceptably innovative by marketers looking to launch them today and would be...