Entries invited for DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation
DuPont Packaging has made a call for entries for its annual awards for innovation in packaging.
Archives for February 2, 2011
Allied Bakeries: Carbon foot printing a catalyst for efficiency
Analysing the carbon footprint of Kingsmill loaves has helped Allied Bakeries squeeze out additional cost savings that it would not have extracted through traditional continuous improvement techniques, its operations director has claimed.
Food processor fined for wastewater violations
Food processor Orval Kent Food Company has agreed to pay US$390,000 (€282,000) over allegations that industrial wastewater from one of its US plants overloaded a municipal treatment system, polluting a large stretch of a nearby river.
Silgan expects recent acquisitions to promote profit turnaround
Silgan Holdings expects recent food packaging acquisitions to drive an increase in profits in 2011 after the company reported a dip in net income for the past year.
Bosch renames German and Swiss packaging subsidiaries
Bosch Packaging Technology has renamed two of its subsidiaries as part of a corporate branding strategy.
Sugar: regulatory sweet nothings leave food and drink makers in limbo
Jazz singer Nina Simone’s plaintive, “I want a little sugar in my bowl”, will strike the right note with Europe’s beleaguered sugar industry.