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Eco Packs For Cheese Snacks

28 Jul 2012
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Lactalis american group inc. Moves to plantbased plastic packaging for its precious stickers snacks. The new packaging material was developed by clear lam packaging inc. Using plantbased bioplastics derived from natureworks ingeopolylactic acid pla along with ingredients that enhance performance. According to clear lam packaging, this new material, which is 50 plantbased, generates up to 35.2 fewer greenhouse gases and uses up to 36.8 less energy than the conventional petroleumbased materials it replaces.

Jbs Enhances Specialty Beef Lines With New Easyopen Package

28 Jul 2012
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Meat processor jbs has recently adopted a new bag for its premium beef brands to help retail and foodservice customers address costly challenges. Jbs says it selected sealed air&rsquos cryovac® quickrip&trade easyopen bag for boneless fresh red meat applications with an eye toward minimizing yield loss and creating an overall exceptional experience in the premium meat category. The bag is said to enhance employee and product safety, improve backofhouse efficiencies, and reduce product waste.

Medica Unveils New Pharma Carton

23 Jul 2012
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The product has been designed to incorporate the patient information leaflet within the carton structure, helping to ensure that the two do not become separated. According to crewebased medica, the easytear perforation on the back panel of the pack allows the consumer to access information without destroying the whole carton. Chrysalis carton sales director deborah greenwood said &ldquothe innovative design also has the ability to simplify the manufacturing process. &ldquoas the carton is supplied with the leaflet already applied, there is no need to insert it separately.

Smurfit Kappa Celebrates 150 Years Of Paper Making In Birmingham

23 Jul 2012
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More than 200 people including past and present employees, customers, suppliers, local residents and organisations all associated with the smurfit kappa ssk paper mill in nechells, joined together for this event. The event occurred on tuesday evening 22 may. Founded back in 1862 by three victorian entrepreneurs thomas bird smith, sir john benjamin stone and frederick knight, the smurfit kappa ssk paper mill now plays a vital role in providing local employment as well as reducing the city&rsquos carbon footprint, according to the firm.

Uk Meets Packaging Targets Despite Decrease In Glass

23 Jul 2012
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The environment agency has published the results on the national packaging waste database. More than 7.7m tonnes of packaging were recycled or recovered during the 2010 compliance year. The actual 2010 target was 6.8m tonnes. However, uk packaging producers only met their materialspecific target for glass by a small margin. In total, 1.64m tonnes of glass packaging were sent for recycling in 2010 and the uk obligation figure was 1.69 million tonnes. The glass target was met with the help of packaging recovery notes prns carried into 2010 from 2009.

New Oasis Packaging From Cocacola

23 Jul 2012
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The brand will be supported by a marketing campaign called &lsquoit&rsquoll go with anything&rsquo. The new bottle will be available as a 99p pricemarked pack on 500ml variants. Cocacola enterprises communications manager selena taylor said &ldquooasis is set for bumper sales with the return of the blackcurrant apple flavour, and a multi million marketing campaign to support the range.

Pepsi Plans To Reduce Its Reliance On Oilbased Plastic

23 Jul 2012
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Speaking to pn from new york about pepsico&rsquos sustainability agenda, denise lefebvre said that the firm wants its material to come &ldquofrom renewable materials and to reduce our reliance on oilbased plastic&rdquo. Pepsico&rsquos brands include pepsi, tropicana, copella, 7up and walkers crisps. In march, it announced that it will be developing a pet bottle made from 100 plantbased materials using nonfood sources.

Malmesbury Syrups Gift Pack By Graham Packaging

23 Jul 2012
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Graham packaging europe helped malmesbury syrups to create two 50ml gift sets containing four syrup bottles from their range of vanilla, caramel, cinnamon, ginger, banoffee, toffee, mintchoc, hazelnut and amaretto. The 50ml clear pet bottle produced and supplied by graham packaging europe&rsquos factory based in ettenleur has been supplied to the wiltshirebased company.