Packaging

Swiss food giant Nestlé topped last year’s global dairy industry rankings with revenue of €20.6 billion, followed by Lactalis at €17.6 billion and Danone at €15.2 billion.

Coca Cola Hellenic Bottling Company Bulgaria has invested more than €24 million in a new PET bottle production line which will double production capacity at the Kostinbrod plant in western Bulgaria.

Durst will present innovations and show live demonstrations of the updated Tau RSC portfolio on its at Labelexpo 2019 (Hall 9 - Stand C50, from 24 to 27 September, Brussels).

The Canadian frozen french fry giant McCain Foods has announced a US $100 million investment to build its first factory in Brazil, which will be located in Araxá, Minas Gerais state.

Belgian beer giant Anheuser-Busch InBev has agreed to sell its Australian subsidiary Carlton & United Breweries to Japanese group Asahi for US $11.3 billion.

The new P1EL series retro-reflex photoelectronic sensors developed by wenglor use a continuous, homogeneous light band to reliably detect objects with irregular or asymmetric shapes within a range of up to 1.6 metres. They accurately detect dark, transparent or glossy objects, including those with perforated surfaces.

Debem has expanded its product portfolio with the introduction of the new KM 70 magnetic drive centrifugal pump available in both polypropylene and PVDF versions which attains higher levels of performance in terms of flow rate (65 m3/h) and energy efficiency.

According to the latest edition of the Osservatorio Immagino report, following a 2.3% upturn in 2017, sales growth of “free from” products slowed in 2018 to just +0.1%, reaching €6.8 billion of sales in supermarkets and hypermarkets.

Belgian holding company CTH Invest, a Ferrero affiliate, has spent $300 million to acquire Danish brand Kelsen, producer of the famous Kjeldsens and Royal Dansk butter cookies owned by Campbell Soup Company.

According to research by IWSR, 1.8% of the value of all global beverage alcohol is sold through e-commerce (2018 figures) despite regulation complexities.

Bologna, August 7. The Board of Directors of IMA S.p.A approved the Group results at 30 June 2019, which is expected to be a year of growth. The Group acquires 60% of Perfect Pack S.r.l. thus completing the range of machines  for single-dose packs in the pharmaceutical market. An extraordinary shareholders’ meetings on August 8 of IMA and GIMA TT approved the merger plan for the incorporation of…

30 July 2019. After assessing the requests of the Comieco, Corepla, and Rilegno Consortia for Packaging Materials, the CONAI Board of Directors approved the restructuring of the Environmental Contribution for paper, plastic, and wood packaging, which will come into force on 1 January 2020.

Sidel, a manufacturer of machinery and equipment for blow moulding of plastic containers belonging to the Swiss group Tetra Laval, has announced the acquisition of Cognac Moules Emballages Plastiques (COMEP), a French company that produces moulds for PET.

From the analyses contained in the 24th Comieco report, separate waste paper and cardboard collection in Italy grew by 4% in 2018 to over 3.4 million tons (127,000 tons more than in 2017). The per capita average stood at 56 kg/inhabitant (64.9 in Northern, 68.3 in Central and 38.1 in Southern Italy).

As part of its sustainability programme, Lavazza has unveiled its first 100% compostable Eco Caps coffee capsules in London.

At its facility in Sissa in the province of Parma, Italy, Corteva Agriscience™ (DowDuPont)  has adopted a packaging solution that keeps seed sacks firmly anchored to pallets without the need for further containment films.

RadiciGroup, a Bergamo, Italy-based company specialising in the chemicals, technopolymers and synthetic fibres business, posted a record €1.211 billion revenue in 2018 (+6%).

Nestlé Uzbekistan has sold its water and dairy business to French group Lactalis.

Plastics and the challenges of sustainable packaging in general were the subject of a roundtable discussion held in Milan on 24 June during the presentation of the Ferrero group’s 9th corporate social responsibility report.

New processing and finishing for additive manufacturing with the ProX® SLS 6100 printer by 3D Systems.