Multi-Color Corporation Announces Plant Closing
Jan. 9 -- Multi-Color Corporation today announced plans to consolidate its heat transfer label (HTL) manufacturing facility located in Framingham, Mass. into its other existing facilities. The ...
Flint and Unirep Partner in Joint Venture
Jan. 9 -- Flint Group, a world leading supplier to the printing and packaging industry, and Unirep, a major supplier to the Turkish paper and packaging industry, announce that they have establ ...
Dow Chemical-Rohm & Haas Deal OK with EU
Jan. 9 -- The Dow Chemical Company indicated it has been informed of the decision by the European Commission under Council Regulation (EC) No. 139/2004 declaring its proposed acquisition of Ro ...
Bemis Profits to Fall Short of Outlook
Jan. 8 -- Bemis Co. Inc., a Neenah, Wisc. supplier of flexible packaging and pressure sensitive materials, said Thursday that it now expects fourth-quarter earnings to be about 25 percent lower ...
Packaging M&As Down 35% in 2008
Jan. 7 -- Global packaging merger and acquisition activity slumped to its lowest level in a decade in 2008 as the effects of the credit crunch kicked in, and the outlook for 2009 is just as t ...
Pet Food Helps Packaging Industry Grow
Jan. 2 -- 2009 will be strategic to the growth of the pet food industry: this market is in fact dodging the crisis that is affecting the entire industry of consumer goods. The latest surveys by ...
It's True: Food Packages Shrunk Last Year
Jan. 1 -- John Schafer wore a pained expression as he stepped back from the snack food display at a Minneapolis grocery store.
He held two bags of Old Dutch Puff ...
French Plastic Packaging Associations Merge
The two French plastic packaging associations, Chambre Syndicale des Emballages en Matiere Plastique (CSEMP, Paris; www.packplast.org) and Union Nationale des Industries de Transformation d´Emballage ...