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Dantex Group celebrates 30-year partnership with Windelev
Dantex has supplied Windelev with steel backed printing plates and flexo plates for over 30 years to support their dry offset services. In generating photorealistic artwork and laser engraving printing plates, Windelev supply customers across 55 countries world-wide who produce and print cups, containers, tubes and pails in plastic, and aluminium cans for beverage and…
Goose Island has launched its latest IPA “Today’s Haze”
Goose Island has launched a new Hazy Session IPA, Today’s Haze, to the UK On-Trade. The latest drop from the Chicago-based brewery is now available for pubs and bars to stock in both can and keg formats, having launched to the Off-Trade in May. Today’s Haze has moderate bitterness and fresh, tropical flavours at a…
Aluminium tube and aerosol can industry in Germany ‘resilient and reliable’
The development of the aluminium tubes and aerosol can market in the first half of 2021 can only be adequately assessed for the German market in retrospect to 2020 because the first quarter of 2020 at the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis was still characterised by extremely lively demand from all end consumer markets. In…
Asahi Group unveils alcoholic yoghurt-flavoured RTDs
Asahi Group has launched two yoghurt-flavoured alcoholic RTDs that contain fermented milk. The 4%-abv Asahi Luxury Shibori Plus canned chu-hai drinks roll out across Japan from 7 September, Asahi said last week. Both contain fruit flavours as well as fermented milk for a “sour yoghurt” taste. The RTDs are an extension to the Luxury Shibori…
PackSys Global merges with MADAG Printing Systems
MADAG Printing Systems and PackSys Global have announced their intention to merge. MADAG was founded in 1965 for the manufacture of knitting, hot stamping and pad printing machines. The merger of MADAG Printing Systems AG, Fahrweid with PackSys Global AG, Rüti will continue the firms guiding principle of One Company, One Brand. A statement from PackSys…
Krones sees improved profitability
Following a successful start to the 2021 financial year, Krones’ business continued to develop dynamically between April and June. Overall, Krones’ markets have so far recovered faster than expected from the pandemic-related downturn. Order intake increased by 58.3% relative to the second quarter of 2020, to €975.5 million in the second quarter of 2021. In…
Gores Holdings and AMP merger nears completion
Gores Holdings has announced that, following the anticipated receipt of stockholder approval at its Special Meeting of Stockholders, it expects to close its previously announced business combination with Ardagh Metal Packaging on August 4, 2021. In the business combination, Gores Holdings will merge with a subsidiary of AMP and AMP will become a publicly traded…
Crown ranked as the leader on ESG lists
Crown Holdings has once again held the top position for mitigating environmental, social and governance (ESG) risk within the metal and glass packaging sector, following a new assessment from ESG ratings provider Sustainalytics. The organisation advanced Crown to the Negligible Risk category—a designation achieved by only 1% of global corporations—and placed the Company ahead of…
METPACK registration opens
The next METPACK is in the starting blocks: After the world’s leading trade fair for metal packaging had to be cancelled in 2020 due to the pandemic, the industry is now looking forward to its innovation platform from May 2 to 6, 2023 at Messe Essen. For interested exhibitors, the registration documents are now available…
Toray Graphics launches Prixia plates for can printing
Japanese offset specialist Toray Graphics has developed Prixia, a dry offset printing plate designed to deliver photorealistic imagery in two-piece beverage can printing. The newly developed plate delivers a printing quality of up to 250 lines per inch, compared to a resolution of 75 to 120 lines per inch for standard photopolymer plates. The ability…
