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Packaging Material Plant to Be Built in China
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Tetra Pak, one of the world's leading processing and packaging solutions providers for food manufacturing, has announced plans to invest EUR 60 million in a state-of-the-art packaging material manufacturing plant in Hohhot, China.
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Dole Food Opens Packaging Plant
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Dole Food opened its $54 million salad-packaging plant in Bessemer City, employing 350 people in a county, hard hit by the demise of the textile industry. The 285,000 square foot facility is Dole's first in North Carolina.
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Contract Packaging World Debut Conference
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Summit Publishing Company has announced the launch of a new conference for professionals who buy and sell contract packaging and related services - "CP 07". It will focus exclusively on contract packaging challenges and solutions.
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Contamination Detection System for Food Packaging
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Thermo Electron, an industry leader in contaminant detection for the food, beverage, and pharmaceutical industries, has developed a contamination detection system to fill the gap between magnetic metal detectors and x-ray imaging systems.
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Biodegradable packaging started with banana envelopes, rubber-tyre pencil cases, and water bottles that disappeared once you'd buried them. Now you will soon be able to plant your lipstick.
Cargo Cosmetics has produced the world's first botanical lipstick, Plant Love, made entirely from compostable products. Once you have used it all, you can plant the lipstick case, which is made from a corn-based renewable source and infused with wildflower seeds, and watch it sprout.
Although Plant Love represents a tiny sliver of the multibillion-pound cosmetics industry, economists predict the market for organic personal care products is set to take off this year.
Don’t miss the next issue of Packaging IDeaS, for more industry updates.
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