A spate of force majeure declarations by EU polymer manufacturers is putting industry under severe pressure, according to Flexible Packaging Europe (FPE).
The Packaging and Films Association (PAFA) has called on all companies in the polymer industry to work together through a difficult period of stable or falling prices of polyethylene to find a way to avoid sudden shocks in the market.
Kellogg Company says it will ‘have no choice’ but to close at least one US cereal plant if union members refuse to reconsider a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) issued on employment terms.
EPAL (the European Pallet Association), and UIC, a European Pallet Exchange Group (managed by Rail Cargo Group/OBB, on behalf of UIC), has ended a two year conflict and forged a mutual agreement on load carriers.
Building on its efforts to move the grain industry online, Cargill AgHorizons rolled out an e-signature service for grain contracts. It’s the first line grain company in Canada to offer this service, which allows customers to sign grain contracts on their...
The BCTGM union has accused Kellogg of acting outside the law in its lockout, claiming employment terms held under a master contract can’t be negotiated, but Kellogg says the terms fall under a local, supplemental contract which expired last October.
A labor attorney says there could be a number of reasons behind the Kellogg-BCTGM contract dispute and now that the National Labor Relations Board is involved, worse-case scenario it could end up in the US Supreme Court.
A Hovis bakery strike has shed light on the practice of zero-hours contracts, whereby workers are “on-call” as opposed to having fixed hours and must take work when they are offered it.
Metsä Group’s parent company Metsäliitto has said today that UPM-Kymmene has launched arbitration proceedings to claim €58.5m in damages in relation to a deal earlier this year.
Associated British Foods has reached an agreement in principle to acquire Ebro Puleva’s sugar business for €385m – a deal that would further fortify the world’s second biggest sugar firm.
Allied Bakeries has reached an agreement with industrial equipment
supplier APV Baker to cover equipment service and maintenance for
more than 50 key processing units in five plants.
Rexam, a leading consumer packaging company, has reached an
agreement with Belgian brewing giant Interbrew to acquire German
glass container manufacturer Nienburger Glas.
Canadian fruit juice processor D'Angelo Brands has said that
negotiations are almost complete for a new US$3 million (€304m)
credit facility to finance the start of operations at its new
Tiverton processing plant.
Leading Brands said this week it has entered into three new
co-packing agreements with Ocean Spray International, a North
American provider of cranberry juice and other beverage products.
![L to R: Robert Holliger, president, EPAL, Karl Kern, chairman, the Pallet Pool (Federal Chamber of Economy Austria [WKÖ]), Thomas Metlich, chairman, UIC](/var/wrbm_gb_food_pharma/storage/images/_aliases/news_teaser_medium/9/3/8/4/1604839-1-eng-GB/EPAL-and-UIC-end-two-year-pallet-conflict.jpg)
