November 2014

eisai has announced the launch of a new stateoftheart packaging facility at its emea knowledge centre in hatfield.the new twostorey 2,900 sq m factory expands the current site by nearly 40 percent and will lead to a ten percent increase in the location&39s 500strong workforce. it will be used to handle the packaging of the investigational advanced thyroid cancer treatment lenvatinib.this represents a foreign direct investment of more than eight million pounds into the uk, thus reinforcing eisai&39s position as the country&39s largest japanese pharmaceutical investor.

growth will be driven by consumer and producer preferences for standup pouches over more traditional rigid packaging.&nbsp the adoption of pouches with higher value features in developed markets &mdash such as the us, canada, western europe, and japan &mdash will support gains in dollar terms.faster growth is expected in china and other developing nations, where rising personal incomes coupled with expanding production of packaged goods will promote higher demand for pouches.&nbsp these and other trends are presented in world pouches, a new study from the freedonia group, a

packaging corporation of america nysepkg should head towards 77 per share according to 8 analysts in consensus. however, if the road gets shaky, the stock may fall short to 70 per share. the higher price estimate target is at 82 according to the analysts. packaging corporation of america nysepkg strong bullish mood helped the shares of packaging corporation of america nysepkg appreciate in value. the share price gained 0.45 points or 0.61 to close at 74.31 with 529,981 shares exchanging hands.

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packaging supplier samuel grant group is expanding, with a move to bigger premises and the creation of new jobs.the leeds packaging company will relocate next year to a new 50,000 sq ft warehouse and operations centre &ndash 50 bigger than its current site located in the leeds city region enterprise zone. &nbsp relocating from its existing site in beeston, where it has been based for 65 years, t......for the full story register now for free or login below...&nbsp

eisai, a leading global research and developmentbased pharmaceutical company, today opened a new facility at its emea knowledge centre in hatfield to handle the packaging of its investigational compound lenvatinib, for the treatment of advanced thyroid cancer. this represents a foreign direct investment of more than &pound8 million into the uk by the japanese company.housing innovative hybrid packaging lines at the cutting edge of technology, the facility is specifically designed to cope with highly potent, difficulttohandle compounds.

oca has installed a third big offset press at its print bound subsidiary, boosting capacity and moving the company into the lucrative packaging market.chief executive naresh gulati says the heidelberg speedmaster xl 106 six colour led uv press started producing commercial print jobs yesterday and will be available for trade work.&ldquoi invite all printers in australia to take advantage of the latest and most sophisticated press in the australian market,&rdquo he says.it marks the company&rsquos first foray into packaging, which will focus on high quality shortrun work and make

mike sunnuckssenior reporter phoenix business journalemail &nbsp&nbsp twitter &nbsp&nbsp facebookamw packaging supply has bought a commercial building in phoenix for 1.3 million.the arizona packaging supply company is moving to new 16,000squarefoot digs near 32nd street and southern avenue in phoenixthe company is currently at a 5,000squarefoot building 32nd street and broadway road.the seller of the new building was voytech five llc. that entity is managed by al and ewa grabowski, according to arizona corporation commission records.

transparency market research has released a new market report titled &ldquoflexographic printing inks market global industry analysis, size, share, growth, trends and forecast, 2014 2020.&rdquo according to the report, the global flexographic printing inks market was valued at usd 6.41 billion in 2013 and is projected to reach usd 9.32 billion by 2020, expanding at a cagr of 5.5 between 2014 and 2020. global demand for flexographic printing inks stood at 1,603.7 kilo tons in 2013.&nbspflexographic printing is one of the most important conventional printing processes.

torontobased onex corp. has announced that it is paying up to &euro3.75 billion 4.66 billion to buy out the swiss carton packaging maker sig combibloc group ag. the amount of &euro3.575 billion 4.44 billion will be paid at the closing of the transaction, with an additional amount of up to &euro175 million 217 million payable based on the financial performance of sig in 2015 and 2016.news of the acquisition does not come as a complete surprise since 2007, sig has been owned by reynolds group holdings limited, which is a part of the rank group of new zealand.