December 19, 2002 | By S Chidambar
As per the latest details received from Cidex Trade Fairs, the number of exhibitors at Indpack 2002 has come down drastically to about 70 from the level of 198 at Indpack 1998. According to our inform... Read More >>
December 17, 2002
The following article is part of the public relations effort of the Interpack exhibition in Germany. We have only corrected some of the grammar in a few places in the interest of making it read better... Read More >>
November 18, 2002 | By S Chidambar
In the last issue, we looked at the complex framework of some discrete but interdependent concepts that come into play when we discuss the packaging-environment interface or, to put it more correctly,... Read More >>
October 28, 2002
South Asian Petrochemical (ASPET) - a new company promoted by the Dhanukas of the Dhunseri Tea Group - is setting up a new 140,000 MT per year Polyester (PET) Bottle Grade Resin plant at Haldia, ... Read More >>
October 26, 2002
Ntanya (Israel), October 3, 2002 - Aprion Digital has been awarded the Green Label by the "Standards Institution of Israel" (SII) for its family of water-based pigmented inks. It has also been awarded... Read More >>
October 21, 2002 | By S Chidambar
Sealed Air Corporation is currently test-marketing an inflatable version of Bubble Wrap. This system enables them to ship the material to customer sites in small rolls and have it inflated there. This... Read More >>
October 19, 2002 | By S Chidambar
Some of the pioneering work on regulating packaging waste vis-à-vis the environment has been done by the European Union. The EU realized very early on that the problem needed to be tackled on a co-coo... Read More >>
September 19, 2002
Tetra Laval has launched an appeal with the Court of First Instance of the European Communities in Luxemburg against the European Commission's decision not to allow its acquisition of Sidel. According... Read More >>
August 20, 2002
ITC posted a 17 per cent increase in net profit at Rs.259.23 crores for the third quarter of this fiscal as compared to Rs.221.60 crores during the same period last year. Gross income went up from Rs.... Read More >>
August 18, 2002
In the future, rather than just providing passive protection, packaging will additionally play an active role. Developers in the USA, Japan and Australia have been looking into the idea of active pack... Read More >>