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New Belgium Brewing, makers of Fat Tire Amber Ale, announced that it will remove cardboard partitions from 12-pack carriers in an effort to reduce its cardboard consumption. At current production levels, the move will eliminate 150 tons of cardboard from going into New Belgium packaging. Consumers will start seeing the new 12-packs after March 2009.

The award-winning Amcor SureFresh™ Fresh Produce Carton is a highly efficient alternative to multiple-use returnable plastic crates (RPCs), because it needs no return transportation and eliminates the use of water and detergent for cleaning and more important wall volume of the crates are also higher then RPCs, fourteen layers high on a pallet, compared to the eleven layers of RPCs. It also easily...[Read More]

The pack is made from recycled paper fibre and functional film laminate recently developed by Amcor Functional Coatings and known as Thermshield™, which combine to produce a light weight environmentally friendly corrugated material solution.   Amcor ChillFresh™ due to it’s construction allows for better shelf utilisation, has a clean sterile appearance and eliminates the problem of loose foa...[Read More]

One of the major recent changes in the corrugated box industry has been the growing use of preprinted linerboard. This product is used to make boxes with a white enamel surface that can be printed on with four-color graphics, while the rest of the box remains the same unbleached brown color. The main reason for the growth of preprint has been the growing belief by manufacturers that an attractive ...[Read More]

The United States is the world’s largest producer of corrugated and solid fiber boxes, and as of the late 1990s, it accounted for more than a third of total world volume. The total value of corrugated paperboard and solid fiber box shipments in 2000 reached $33.1 billion. The United States is a major consumer as well as a major producer of corrugated products. In the late 1990s, annual per c...[Read More]

CHICAGO – Food and beverage product launches declined nearly 30% in 2009, according to the Global New Product Database from Mintel International.   “We see a number of small companies, which typically introduce a wide range of products, have been stopping or slowing their introductions due to the economy. Additionally, some categories have simply become so over-saturated that there is little...[Read More]

With the prevalent use of the internet in all aspects of business today, e-commerce has become an important marketing tool for packaging and printing companies. As the key e-commerce platform in the corrugated industry, E-Corrugated, an affiliate of the official website of the SinoCorrugated show (www.sino-corrugated.com) was launched in September 2009. The majority of the packaging and printing i...[Read More]

CHINA – The Chinese corrugated packaging sector, experienced a massive rise in production values last year with output values in 2008 reaching US$38 billion (RMB264 billion), with board consumption estimated to be in the region of 25 million tons Despite the credit crunch that has crippled world trade, overall packaging output in China was valued at US$125 billion (RMB860 billion), driven by the l...[Read More]

China’s packaging industry has become a world leader and its annual gross value of production has grown by an average of 20% in the last five years. Mainland China’s packaging industry’s output value reached RMB 860 billion (USD 125.9 billion) in 2008.  This confirms China as the world’s second largest packaging producer. In accordance with this momentum, the total output value of China’s pa...[Read More]

The Yangtze River Delta region has been the most rapidly developing region in China’s corrugated box industry in recent years. It has nearly matched the Pearl River Delta region in terms of potential for development and has the capacity to overtake it.  According to the Shanghai Packaging Association Paper Container Packaging Commission figures, the average annual growth of the Shanghai corrugated...[Read More]

Despite  the world economical crisis and slowdown of China’s economical growth, Yataili Re­production & Plate making has re­cently committed to put into place a strategy which is aimed at outper­forming the current market trend. In June 2009, Yataili set up a new plant in Shenzhen, South China and installed a superior nyloflex plate­making line from Flint Group Flexographic Historically, Yatai...[Read More]