Packaging 
Linpac Group has said there is “no formal sale process… currently underway” following speculation in UK newspapers that the global rigid packaging group could be split up and sold off by the banks that control it. But PRW understands informal approaches have been made by interested parties.
9 March 2010
Scottish soft drinks company AG Barr, maker of the IRN-BRU carbonated drink, is planning to cut the amount of PET it uses in bottles across all its product ranges.
9 March 2010
Colortronic (UK) says it has supplied materials handling systems to Nampak Plastics Europe to allow inclusion of recycled HDPE into the rigid packaging company’s HDPE containers.
8 March 2010
M&H Plastics hopes its latest investment in a new injection blow moulding machine from Uniloy Milacron will help it expand in the market for pharma packaging.
5 March 2010
A big increase in UK packaging reduction targets could be unachievable without greater support by central and local government, the plastics industry has warned. The target for recycling plastics packaging has more than doubled to 56.9% by a deadline of 2020.
5 March 2010
Flexible film packaging prices are set to rise in the UK, as increases in raw material costs can no longer be absorbed by producers, says the Packaging and Films Association. Polymer prices are continuing to rise.
2 March 2010
The top five producers of rigid plastics packaging in Europe share a slice of the market worth more than €4bn, according to a new report published this month by European Plastics News, sister publication of PRW.
2 March 2010
Award-winning plastics recycling business Greenstar WES hit new production records in December when it produced nearly 700 tonnes of food-grade recycled HDPE (rHDPE) plastic flake, taking its overall 2009 production total to 5,900 tonnes.
1 March 2010
New research led by Wrap (Waste and Resources Action Programme) is set to calculate the amount of waste in the UK retail supply chain for pre-prepared food for the first time – and identify how this can be reduced in order for businesses to make cost and environmental savings.
26 February 2010
US industrial packaging manufacturer Greif has entered the flexible intermediate bulk container segment by acquiring Storsack Holding, a German specialty packaging group.
26 February 2010
Enhanced barrier PET bottles continue to secure some high profile niche applications in the alcoholic beverage industry, demonstrating that the benefits of PET need not be restricted to the soft drinks sector.
25 February 2010
Germany’s plastics packaging industry saw sales decline by around 10% in 2009 to €12.5bn, according to the latest status report from industry association Industrievereinigung Kunststoffverpackungen (IK).
19 February 2010
Italian headquartered PET resins specialist M&G hope that its latest PoliProtect-brand monolayer barrier PET resin will make inroads into the US beer packaging sector, according to North American business director Mark Adlam.
19 February 2010
Rexam is closing its Constantine plastic packaging plant in Michigan, US, by the end of the third quarter of 2010. The plant, which began operations in 1972, employs 240 and manufactures plastic caps for the beverage market, including soft drinks and bottled water.
18 February 2010
Finnish packaging group Huhtamaki has revealed a profit for 2009, partly as a result of the divestiture of its rigid plastics division. Despite a 10% drop in sales the company registered a pre-tax profit of €9.6m for last year, compared with a €123.4m loss in 2008.
17 February 2010
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