New Zealand's Rank Group to buy Alcoa packaging biz Alcoa agrees to sell its packaging and consumer businesses to New Zealand’s Rank Group Ltd. for $2.7 billion in cash. The deal is expected to close by the end of the first quarter 2008... More
Med-Health Pharma flags genuine drugs with Kodak Traceless Med-Health Pharma LLC, a prescription-drug repackager, has begun placing invisible markers on its packages via the Kodak Traceless System to distinguish genuine medications from... More
Arkay Packaging honors Apprenticeship Training grads
Roanoke, VA-based converter Arkay Packaging Corp. recently honored 22 graduates of its Apprenticeship Training Initiatives. The maker of folding cartons for pharmaceutical and cosmetics packagers created an apprenticeship program for its... More
DVD-packaging printer runs jumbo ROLAND 900 XXL
How do you package larger-than-life hit movies for distribution as DVDs? The answer at Wynalda Litho is to invest in a larger-than-life sheetfed press—the 64-in. ROLAND 900 XXL.... More
Substrate Secrets:
Surface cleanliness
Film surfaces are seldom clean on a molecular level, explains Eldridge Mount. More
Packaging By Design: Can China remove the taint?
Considering it has the world's largest government bureaucracy, it's amazing how fast China can move when it wants to, writes John Kalkowski. More
Conference Alert
"Fast forward into the future" at PLGA ops meeting
Get a closeup look at new technologies and business opportunities that lend themselves to the quality and consistency of the gravure-printing process at the PLGA Global's 11th annual Operational Conference, Feb. 27-29 in Miami. More
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