Packaging 
Miko the Belgium-based plastics packaging and coffee service firm, says both operating and net profit fell 8% over the first half of the year because of rising raw material prices.
31 August 2010
EuPR has condemned a PET recycling study by SRI Consulting as "dangerous." The document states that "disposing of bottles in landfill generates a lower carbon footprint than recycling or incineration." It also states that "waste shipping distances are not footprint critical."
26 August 2010
Rank Group subsidiary Reynolds Group Holdings’ planned $6bn (€4.6bn) acquisition of US packaging group Pactiv, announced earlier this week, will create a global packaging giant and create considerable cost saving opportunities, according to Reynolds Group CEO Tom Degnan.
20 August 2010
Pannunion, the Hungarian plastics packaging group, is raising its rigid polypropylene and polystyrene film manufacturing capacity by 25% with the addition of new extrusion equipment.
16 August 2010
RPC Containers Halstead has strengthened its long-term supply relationship with the Orkla Group, manufacturer of one of Europe’s leading ketchup brands, Felix, with the production of a 43.2mm flip-top cap used by two Orkla sites in Austria and Romania.
13 August 2010
Obesity is on the rise because of ‘obesogens’, endocrine disrupting chemicals that make you fat, according to Stephen Perrine and Heather Hurlock, the authors of The New American diet. And amongst the list of obesogens are phthalates and bisphenol A.
13 August 2010
A new research report from a Swiss consulting firm says that unless the yield from recycling PET bottles is 50% or greater, disposing of the bottles in a landfill will lead to a lower carbon footprint.
12 August 2010
US-based Graham Packaging has signed a deal to buy blow moulder Liquid Container and its subsidiaries for $568m (€431.1m).
10 August 2010
Ball has completed the sale of its plastic packaging, Americas, business to Amcor for approximately $280m. The sale includes five US plants that manufacture PET bottles and preforms and polypropylene bottles, as well as associated customer contracts and other related assets.
3 August 2010
There are still considerable opportunities for plastic bottles to penetrate packaging markets, says UK research firm AMI.
2 August 2010
European demand for enhanced barrier PET bottles is set to grow from 3.94bn bottles in 2009 to 6.3bn bottles in 2014, according to figures from Jörg D Schönwald, managing director of packaging industry research group Schönwald Consulting.
30 July 2010
Closed Loop Recycling, a UK producer of food grade rPET and rHDPE, has hired advisors from investment bank UBS to raise £30m to finance its expansion plans, which include a series of plants nationwide.
28 July 2010
Packaging group Amcor has agreed to sell its Spanish Tobepal flexible packaging operations to Austrian headquartered Constantia Flexibles, part of Constantia Packaging.
27 July 2010
Blow moulding giant Graham Packaging, which entered the China market in April with its first acquisition there, has set an aggressive target of up to $300m in sales in China and Asia within five years.
23 July 2010
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank is planning to help create a $23m bottle-to-bottle plastic recycling facility in São Paulo, Brazil.
22 July 2010
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