Ardagh Group engages in ‘Touch of’ innovation with Bonduelle

22 Feb 2018
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As food brands innovate to meet the evolving needs of their customers, the versatility of the metal can becomes ever more useful as the most contemporary packaging solution. An outstanding recent example is a mini can format developed by Ardagh Group for Bonduelle’s new ‘Touch of’ concept. The French food manufacturer had spotted a gap in the market for smaller servings of vegetables to accompany meals. Research showed that not only would this meet a desire for increased variety, colour and taste on the plate, but also reduce the likelihood of food waste.

Caps and total quality control, Sacmi to showcase the full range at Chinaplas 2018

22 Feb 2018
Bhaskar Ch

The country's main plastic-rubber industry event will see the Group attend with the successful compression press range, now enhanced with new cap-preform integrated design services. Alongside these solutions, Sacmi will also showcase CHS inspection systems for total cap quality control and the advanced Sacmi line supervisor, which manages orders and monitors all plant performance parameters, even remotely.

 

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Innovation tracker: a bottle full of fitness

21 Feb 2018
Ajit Pandey

Fitness goals are not easy to achieve and many people, especially at the beginning of the year, try to boost their motivation levels and set new challenges for themselves. The manufacturer Bibita is helping them to shrink the disparity between expectations and reality with the launch of Dum Dum Fitness Water. This mint-flavored sports drink with L-carnitine and stevia comes in a dumbbell-shaped PET bottle that perfectly fits into the hand and is easy to grip. With the central body smaller in diameter than the ends, it is designed to be used during workouts.

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Private Label Trade Show Japan

21 Feb 2018
Radhika Rewri

Private Label Trade Show Japan is the unique event for private label and OEM businesses in Japan. This event will attract product developers, manufacturers, buyers from food to non-food (cosmetics, miscellaneous goods, furniture, package and so on) exhibit their latest products. . This event shows products like home, art, craft, painting, model, photography, youth home, casing paintings, photography etc. in the Apparel & Clothing, Household Services and Packaging Materials industries.

Don’t Let Your Packaging Salespeople Become Obsolete

21 Feb 2018
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Years ago, packaging salespeople were extremely valuable to customers because they were the holders of information. Without salespeople, customers were hard-pressed to uncover facts and gain insight on pricing, product specifications, similar and innovative applications, and industry trends. Packaging sales reps can still be valuable, but not in the same way — and packaging companies need to make their sales teams relevant or risk losing a valuable asset and competitive edge.

Three things are working against them that threaten to make them obsolete:

Archroma introduces Leucophor® MT, a new cost-effective optical brightening agent for high whiteness surface applications

21 Feb 2018
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Reinach, Switzerland, 20 February 2018 - Archroma, a global leader in color and specialty chemicals, today announced the introduction of Leucophor® MT liq, a new tetrasulfonated optical brightening agent (OBA) modified to give high whiteness performance in surface applications.

 

The application of optical brighteners to the surface of paper is usually done by using either hexasulfonated OBAs, when high whiteness levels are required, or tetrasulfonated OBAs, when standard levels of whiteness are sufficient.