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WEBpackaging launches Premium Subscription service
WEBpackaging has launched an exciting new Premium Subscription service giving packaging professionals access to extended tools, services and information not found anywhere else, and providing a number of genuinely useful benefits.
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MG America named exclusive distributor for multiple Romaco brands
MG America, the U.S. subsidiary of MG2 of Bologna, Italy has been named the exclusive distributor for Promatic and Macofar lines of Romaco machinery sold into the U.S. and Puerto Rico markets.
Premium Access RequiredFage USA Dairy Industry buys five Oystar machines
The yogurt manufacturer Fage USA Dairy Industry, Inc. has purchased a total of five Oystar machines. The newest investment is a Flexline FL 8/8 CA for preformed cups from Oystar Hamba. With the sale of its Flexline FL 8/8 CA cup filling machine, the Oystar Group continues to cultivate its excellent business relations to Fage, one of the company’s longstanding customers. Apart from a cup filling and sealing machine from Oystar Gasti for packaging its main product – “Greek Yogurt” – the dairy has already put three other cup filling machines from Oystar Hamba into operation at its New York manufacturing plant.
Premium Access RequiredExcellence United debuts set for Interphex 2012 in New York City
Launched at Interpack 2011 in Dusseldorf, Excellence United is an alliance of six specialty equipment companies who are recognized as technological leaders in their respective markets. Together, these companies comprise more than 4,800 people in total with sales in excess of 800 million Euro. Thanks to common utilization of resources, customers have access to an extensive international service network with 600 employees.
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MMC celebrates 20 years of providing high quality equipment for caps and closures
MMC is celebrating its 20th year as a supplier of high quality automation solutions for the cap and closure industry. In its early stages, MMC developed and supplied innovative cap lining machines. The company then further evolved into a full service supplier of after-molding automation for closure manufacturers, offering high-speed assembly equipment, closing machines for hinged dispensing closures, slitting equipment for Tamper Evident closures, and vision inspection systems.
Read moreKraft's Perales announced as keynote speaker on packaging innovation at SPE's annual blow molding conference in October
The Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) will be holding its 27th Annual Blow Molding Conference and Exhibits at the Chicago Marriott O’Hare on October 12-13, 2011. SPE's 2-day event will also include: technical/business overviews; industrial and automotive materials and applications; packaging machinery advancements; coextrusion and injection blow molding technology, packaging sustainability and recycling, and barrier technology.
Premium Access RequiredAndreas Wilhelm Kraut takes on the chairmanship of the management of Bizerba
It is a step with historical importance for Bizerba: With effect from 1 July 2011 Andreas Wilhelm Kraut will take on the chairmanship of the management. That is the result of the meeting of the supervisory board on 15 April 2011. Therefore for the first time in 15 years, a shareholder and member of the founding family in the fifth generation will once again be at the peak of the company.
Premium Access RequiredNew Independent Closure Testing Lab
Plastic Technologies, Inc. (PTI), a leader in packaging development and engineering, establishes a new closure testing lab. It is thought to be the first independent facility of its type.
Premium Access RequiredEPG inducted into International Metal Decorators Association (IMDA)
EPG (Essex Products Group), the Connecticut-based manufacturer of KeyColor ink and color measurement controls and presetting and scanner interface systems, is pleased to announce that it has joined the International Metal Decorators Association (IMDA). EPG was officially inducted as a new member of the IMDA at the association’s 2011 Annual Conference and Convention in Bloomingdale, Illinois.
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New Company Profile: Trepko
The Trepko group is a long-established, market leading producer of filling and packaging machinery for the food industry. With over 60 years of manufacturing experience, the Trepko Group is firmly placed at the forefront of the packaging industry. Today, Trepko can boast that they have loyal customers in more than 90 countries throughout the world.
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