Merger creates market-leading board group
Ireland's Jefferson Smurfit (JSG) and Kappa Packaging have announced plans to merge, forming a paper-based packaging giant with operations in
BRUSSELS UPDATE
28 Nov 05Labelling directive droppedThe European Commission has released details of legislative proposals that it will abandon to simplify European Union (EU)
New ceo Chris Buxton
28 Nov 05The Processing and Packaging Machinery Association's (PPMA) new ceo, Chris Buxton, has set out his key objectives.Buxton, who has spent
M&S recycling trial
28 Nov 05A Marks & Spencer trial, reportedly the UK¹s biggest to date into using post-consumer recycled material (PCR) for food packaging,
RFID summit set for May 06
28 Nov 05The challenges facing the packaging sector as retailers and brand owners gear up for RFID adoption, how the labelling sector
DIARY
28 Nov 056 DecemberFood Safety, Traceability & RFID, The RFID Centre, Bracknell. T: +44 (0)7881 828705; www.rfidc.com/foodtraceability6-7 DecemberFirst Sustainpack conference, Radisson SAS
Smiths opens new inspection centre
28 Nov 05X-ray inspection equipment manufacturer Smiths Detection opened a new UK Product Inspection Centre in Grimsby in Lincolnshire on November 7.The
First for dishwasher delivery
28 Nov 05Chelmsford, UK-based water-soluble packaging R&D consultancy Aquasol has jointly developed with Reckitt Benckiser what the companies believe is a genuine
Advanced flexo ink
28 Nov 05Sun Chemical claims to have launched the world's most advanced cationic UV flexo ink system of its kind.Its SOLARCAT ink
Packaging museum reopens in London
28 Nov 05A museum dedicated to all facets of product marketing over the last 200 years, whose 10,000 exhibits will include thousands