Marchesini Group USA - the American subsidiary of the Marchesini Group – will attend Interphex 2020 (April 28-30) in New York where two stand-alone machines will be on show: the Marchesini BL-A420 CW labeler and the CMP PHAR.MA SV inspection machine.

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Pregis has made several recent investments in its European operations to support the growing protective packaging needs of its broad global customer base. The company recently opened a new energy-efficient facility in Stevenage, UK which includes a Customer Experience and Paper Specialist Centre (PSC) under one roof.

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Stevanato Group, through Ompi, its specialist in glass primary packaging for the pharmaceutical industry, and Bormioli Pharma announce today a collaboration agreement. The agreement will enable biopharma customers, contract filling organizations, and research laboratories to receive Bormioli Pharma’s proprietary primary containers in Ompi’s industry-recognized EZ-fill® secondary packaging configuration.

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The dispersion varnishes available to the market currently has two shortcomings when printed by inkjet and UV LED ink; namely a lack of adhesion, scratch resistance (depending on the properties of the varnish), and inadequate print quality.

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Mauser-Werke GmbH, the German subsidiary of Mauser Packaging Solutions, is investing more than 10 million euros in the extension of its Erkelenz facility.

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European production of glass packaging for food and beverage continues to grow according to latest figures published today from the European Container Glass Federation. The increase of 2% in tonnes and 1.9% in units (representing an increase of 748 million units) recorded in the first half year 2019 corresponds to the best performance over the past 4 years. From 2016-2019, half year production increased by 3.5%. The pace of growth is particularly heartening when comparing to the previous year where the increase was lower (1%).

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Silgan Holdings Inc., a leading supplier of rigid packaging for consumer goods products, announced today that it has signed a binding offer to acquire Albea’s dispensing business for $900 million. This business is a leading global supplier of highly engineered pumps, sprayers and foam dispensing solutions to major branded consumer goods product companies in the Beauty and Personal Care markets.

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Virospack will present at the next ADF/PCD exhibition the first dropper with a massage tip designed for eye contours, serums, oils, fluid makeup, and in general for low viscosity formulas, which want a precise, comfortable and pleasant application and a refreshing effect on the skin.

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Tekni-Plex Medical, a Tekni-Plex business, has named Dan Lazas global head of sales. Lazas will be leading global sales for the recently-formed business unit which includes nine manufacturing locations and products under the Colorite, Natvar and Dunn brand names. Tekni-Plex Medical provides polymer compounds, extruded tubing and components for medical devices and other applications. Lazas joined Tekni-Plex in 2018 as senior director of sales optimization for medical components.

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Following the successful recycling certification of its Propafilm™ Strata SL high barrier film earlier this year by Interseroh, an Independent German recycling and consulting company, Innovia Films decided to extend the testing program across all its uncoated, acrylic coated and EVOH barrier range of films.

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Prestige-Pak, a second-generation, family-owned business, and producer of printed and laminated flexible packaging materials, announced to have purchase a new Fusion C Flexographic press from Paper Converting Machine Company (PCMC), part of Barry-Wehmiller.

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At the next drupa 2020 exhibition (16-26 June, Düsseldorf/Germany), Baumer hhs, supplier of innovative adhesive application systems to the folding carton, print finishing and other industries, will be focusing on sustainable resource management for tomorrow’s packaging production process.

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As of 9th, January 2020, DL Packaging has become part of the Rovema group. DL Packaging is a leading company for retrofit VFFS machines and relevant supplies. The product and service portfolio is flanked by a simple own vertical Form, Fill and Seal machine in the medium price segment. With this acquisition, Rovema broadens its range of products in the retrofit and new machine segment gaining further access to customers in the medium price segment.

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Comexi, a global supplier of solutions for the printing and flexible packaging industry transformation, has appointed Diego Hervás as the new CEO of Comexi from 1st January, 2020. Hervás, who was born in Barcelona and has extensive executive experience (Plyzer Technologies, Xerox Corporation), replaces Jeroen van der Meer, who had held the position since 2014 and who will continue to be involved with Comexi to ensure as efficient a transition as possible.

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The Koehler Paper Group, a family-run company from Oberkirch, in southwest Germany, produces over 500,000 tons of paper and mechanical pulp board annually at four locations across Germany. Its products include thermal paper, carbonless paper, decor paper, fine paper, recycled paper, mechanical pulp board, and, since 2019, flexible packaging paper.

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Duravant, a global engineered equipment and automation solutions provider to the food processing, packaging and material handling sectors, announced the appointment of Chuck Adams to the position of Chief Commercial Officer.

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Catalent announced the completion of the purchase of Bristol-Myers Squibb’s biologics, sterile, and oral solid dose product manufacturing and packaging facility in Anagni, Italy. The 28,000 square-meter (305,000 square-feet) facility has a demonstrated track record in technical transfers and successful commercial product launches.

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Linx Printing Technologies has introduced an ink specially formulated to resist moisture, colour change and transference. It is ideal for consistent coding through pouch and can retort applications where the contents are cooked in the packaging after they are coded.

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Steven Wyatt (ABB, Switzerland) has been elected as the new President of the International Federation of Robotics by its Executive Board. Wyatt succeeds Junji Tsuda (Yaskawa Electric Corporation), who has served in the rotating post since December 2017. Milton Guerry (Schunk, USA) has been appointed as IFR´s new Vice President.

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Tekni-Plex is announcing the formation of the Tekni-Plex Medical business unit, which will facilitate the supply of mission-critical, high-value components, materials, and solutions to medical device manufacturers worldwide. The new operating unit will offer products and services formerly supplied separately by its Colorite, Natvar and Dunn businesses.

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According to the preliminary figures published by the Ucima Research Department, the sector has continued to grow during 2019 (up 1.8% on 2018), reporting positive performances both in Italy and in foreign markets.

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The specialty chemicals group Altana is taking over the Swiss overprint varnish specialist Schmid Rhyner AG, thereby strategically expanding its Actega division. “In acquiring Schmid Rhyner, we are continuing to systematically pursue the Altana strategy of generating value-creating growth through targeted acquisitions,” says Martin Babilas, CEO of Altana AG.

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Knowlton Development Corporation (KDC/ONE) and HCT Group (HCT) announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement to create a comprehensive global end-to-end solutions provider for the beauty and personal care industry. The two companies will partner to provide customers with an expanded suite of manufacturing and packaging solutions.

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The special wash-off adhesive for labels 62Rpw, which HERMA will shortly be introducing, will allow recycling operators to produce high-purity PET pellets that do not contain any detrimental residues – no remains of paper or film labels, and no residual adhesive. Unlike downcycling or cascading, the resulting continuous cycle ranks among the most important requirements of a sustainable economy.

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Duravant, a global engineered equipment and automation solutions provider to the food processing, packaging and material handling sectors, announced the appointment of Mike LaBelle to the position of Vice President of Business Development.

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Siegwerk, one of the world’s leading providers of printing inks for packaging applications and labels, has opened a new fully automated facility for the production of customer inks at its headquarters in Siegburg today. With this commissioning, the new Blending Center is now the largest fully automated production facility for printing inks in Europe.

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Pregis is announcing another $5 million investment in its Pregis Films facility located in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Additionally, Pregis is leasing an additional 35,000 square feet in the same location for expanded warehousing capability.

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To offer more flexibility and agility in aseptic manufacturing and pharmaceutical filling and capping, ARaymondlife, Groninger and Schott have joined forces to present a versatile combination.

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To further strengthen its roots in Asia, KHS has begun work on a brand new plant in Kunshan, a few kilometers from KHS China's headquarters in Shanghai.

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As part of a join project, VDMA OPC Machine Vision Initiative’s members, together with the OPC UA Foundation, have developed a hardware demonstrator that includes the practical implementation of the “OPC UA for Machine Vision (OPC MV) Part 1 Companion Specification”.

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