Packaging

Two dates and two clear goals: packaging with zero waste by 2025 and zero impact by 2035.

Ceflex (Circular Economy for Flexible Packaging), a European consortium of companies representing the entire value chain of flexible packaging with more than 140 stakeholders including raw materials producers, converters, retailers and packaging users, has launched an open consultation for the wider flexible packaging industry to enhance and refine phase one of the Designing for a Circular…

Building on its 80 years of experience in the poultry sector, including 20 in the organic segment, Fileni is now taking on a fresh challenge with the launch of a new organic red meat line.

To meet the growing demand for Pringles across Europe, Kellogg Company is investing €110 million in a new manufacturing line to be installed in a 21,000 square metre building at its factory in Kutno, Poland.

Constantia Flexible, the world’s third largest producer of flexible packaging with headquarters in Vienna, Austria, recently opened a new factory in Gujarat, India.

Health-consciousness, sustainability and convenience are the three trends perceived by Mintel as determining the dynamics of global innovations in the non-alcoholic  beverage segment.

Guala Closures East Africa (GCEA), a subsidiary of the Piedmont-based Guala Closures Group, has announced its expansion into the Kenyan market with the inauguration of its new East Africa site in Nairobi.

According to the latest Nielsen surveys, from September 2018 to September 2019 Italians spent €1.4 billion on ready meals (8.7% more than the previous year).

The Sanpellegrino group has signed an agreement to sell the Beltè brand to Refresco Italy (Spumador and Recoaro), a company owned by Dutch beverage multinational Refresco.

The 2018/2019 financial statement approved at the end of October for the Conserve Italia group reveals an essentially stable scenario for the Bologna-based cooperative consortium, owner of the brands Yoga, Valfrutta, Cirio, Derby Blue and Jolly Colombani.

US packaging producer Berlin Packaging has completed its fifth acquisition in 2019 (the thirteenth since 2010) with the takeover of Novio Packaging Group, a Netherlands-based company with 160 employees.

The Swiss group Nestlé has decided to cease independent operation of its mineral water arm Nestlé Waters and integrate the various brands (San Pellegrino, Levissima, Panna and the French brand Perrier) into the group’s three geographical zones: America; Europe, Middle-East and North Africa (EMENA); and Asia-Oceania-Sub-Saharan Africa.

In a club deal promoted by Orienta Partners, a group of Italian and international investors has acquired 100% of the shares of Virosac (Pederobba-Treviso), one of the largest Italian producers of biodegradable bags for food and waste.

ABB robots become an integral feature of the B&R automation portfolio. Machine builders will be able to buy robots and their machine control system from a single source.

Veripack, a subsidiary of the market-leading packaging technologies player Ilpra Group, has signed a thermoforming machine supply agreement with Bombay Sweets & Co. Ltd., the largest snack producer in Bangladesh.

The Italian company Paper Converting Machine Company (PCMC) has acquired Serbian firm Stax Technologies, a packaging machinery supplier specialising in the tissue sector.

Through its Brazilian subsidiary, Massimo Zanetti Beverage Group has acquired the Sao Paulo-based coffee producer Café Pacaembu Ltda, well known for the Café Pacaembu brand and owner of a production site equipped with cutting-edge technology for the production of ground coffee and capsules.

Two leading healthcare industry players have completed major acquisitions aimed at expanding their industrial operations and accelerating growth.

The Catalan group Quadpack has followed up its recent acquisition of the cosmetics division of Inotech with the takeover of the German cosmetics packaging company Louvrette, an operation that positions the group as one of the top ten European cosmetic packaging providers.

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