Packaging

RPC, the UK-based plastic packaging supplier, has announced the €386m (£306m) acquisition of Iceland-based Promens Group.

Multi Packaging Solutions (MPS) has bought Scotland-headquartered gifting packaging specialist Presentation Products Group (PPG).

Heidelberg unveiled a new die-cutter and two new additions to its Diana folder-gluer range at its two-day Packaging Days open house in Wiesloch-Walldorf this week.

More than 80% of consumers globally want companies that source certified material from sustainable managed forests to use certification labels to communicate their responsible sourcing practices,...

Packaging printer Benson Group has launched a new range of microwave cooking products.

Durst used a two-day open house at its production facility in Lienz, Austria on 10-11 November to demonstrate its new Rho 1300 series wide-format printers, which were launched at Fespa 2014.

Mark Kerridge has stepped down as managing director of Benson Group, the £120m turnover packaging printer that was acquired by Graphic Packaging International earlier this year for £100m.

Packaging businesses are gearing up for next month's introduction of new EU regulations that require changes to the information that is displayed on food packaging.

Paper merchant and convertor Vision Paper and Board, part of the Middleton Paper Group, has increased its Calisto Hi Bulk gloss and silk range by adding new grammages and sizes.

Antalis UK will rebrand its packaging business as Antalis Packaging as of 1 January 2015 to consolidate its corporate identity under the single Antalis brand.