Charles Osborn
SLAC manufactures equipment to assist in the COVID-19 Pandemic
SLAC International have begun to manufacture equipment to assist in the global COVID-19 pandemic. The firms Mingjia manufacturing operation in the Shandong Province, China, has begun to produce folding masks, designed to protect individuals against the coronavirus. The Mingjia CV20R automatic N95 mask production system is used for fully automated N95 ‘folding mask’ production. The…
CFUK launch children’s Packaging Design Challenge with Tata Steel
Canned Food UK (CFUK) in collaboration with Tata Steel Europe, will launch the Packaging Design Challenge this week on April 24 2020. The competition invites children under the age of 15 to design and create a pack that demonstrates optimum durability, recyclability, and decoration. The winner will receive £100 in Amazon vouchers. The challenge launches with…
Ball Corporation approves targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
Ball Corporation have announced that the Science Based Targets initiative’s (SBTi) has approved the firms own targets to reduce absolute carbon emissions within its own operations by 55 percent and within its value chain by 16 percent by 2030, against a 2017 baseline. The milestone affirms Ball’s efforts to help accelerate the transition to a low carbon economy…
AkzoNobel and BYK-Gardner digitise surface texture for powder coatings
AkzoNobel has entered a new territory with the help of pioneering technology developed by BYK-Gardner , which can digitally measure and control the textured surfaces of powder coatings. Launched on April 10, the spectro2profiler represents a major step forward for the industry. Currently the only way to check the quality of a textured powder coating surface…
CMbE win the Queens Award for Enterprise for the fourth time
CarnaudMetalbox Engineering (CMbE), along with 220 organisations, has been nationally recognised with the prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise. CMbE, are now four time winners of the Queens Award for Enterprise, Including: International Trade, Technological Achievement and now Innovation. The Queens Award for Innovation category is aimed at organisations who are either innovative in their methods…
Northern Monk and Aunt Bessie’s team up for ‘roast dinner’ beer duo
The Roast Dinner Pale Ale has been brewed with Aunt Bessie’s Yorkshire puddings and roast potatoes. The Leeds-based brewery, Northern Monk have teamed up with Aunt Bessie’s to create a two-course roast dinner in beer form. The brewer has taken all of the traditional elements of a roast dinner and turned it into two beers, a Roast Dinner Brown…
Global corona pandemic leaving mark on aluminium aerosol can industry
Government-imposed curfews and restrictions on mobility, including cross-border movement, and the complete or partial closures of companies are causing considerable disruption within the tightly woven international supply chains. In many countries, packaging has been identified as a relevant part of the system for supplying the population with food and healthcare and pharmaceutical products and is…
Sun Chemical to apply surcharges on Latin American solvent-based inks and varnishes
As a result of the recent COVID-19 pandemic, Sun Chemical Latin America have announced that they are to implement a surcharge on solvent-based inks and varnishes. Surcharges will vary depending on product types. The pandemic has caused a global shortage and supply volatility for raw materials throughout the world, most notably, solvents and alcohols. The…
Molson Coors donates 154,000 cans of fresh water to North American truck drivers
Molson Coors Beverage Co. has donated 154,000 cans of fresh drinking water to truck drivers across the United States and Canada in an effort to help keep them safe by limiting the amount of stops they need to make for supplies during the COVID-19 pandemic. Last week, the company delivered 50,000 cans to the national…
Heinz opens first online shop to help feed the nation
Heinz has opened its first ever online shop to help feed the UK amidst the coronavirus outbreak with key workers getting free postage and priority shipping on all orders. The brand is selling boxes filled with cans of food to families across the UK as part of its new ‘Heinz to Home’ campaign, offering the…
