Packaging
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Mauser buys in Canada Mauser has acquired Armco Industries, a Canadian distributor of industrial packaging and accessories. |
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New face for steel drums The Steel Shipping Container Institute (SSCI) has renamed itself as the Industrial Steel Drum Institute, and revamped its website. |
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Hoover building new IBC plant Hoover Container Solutions has broken ground on a new IBC and tank production site in Scott, Louisiana, local media report. |
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Mauser goes Mexican Mauser has established a new joint venture with Mexican plastics drum producer Plastienvases. |
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Werit wins Schütz patent case The UK's Supreme Court has "unanimously" upheld an appeal by Werit in its longstanding patent dispute with Schütz. |
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Hoover cleans IBCs in Houston Hoover Container Solutions has completed the construction of a new IBC cleaning facility at its Houston headquarters. |
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Mauser adds fibre drum capacity Mauser has opened a new fibre drum plant adjacent to existing plastics drum facility in The Woodlands, Texas. |
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Hoover buys offshore container firm US-based IBC maker Hoover Container Solutions has acquired Norwegian offshore container provider Consult Supply. |
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Link to the tank TELEMETRY Do your IBCs keep disappearing in the supply chain? Is managing the IBC fleet a costly business? Perhaps recent advances in the application of telemetry systems can offer a solution, Pat Barron* suggests |
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Werit wins in court CROSSBOTTLING The UK's Supreme Court has unanimously upheld an appeal by Werit in its longstanding patent dispute with Schütz over the crossbottling of intermediate bulk containers. The ruling has much wider implications for industrial and private consumers |
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Keep it closed DISPENSING Closed-system drum and IBC dispensing can offer shippers significant economic, safety and environmental benefits. Thomas A Braun, business manager, chemical and packaging products for US-based Colder Products Company (CPC), explains more
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Globally unique MANUFACTURING An unwavering attention to product quality and design is continuing to pay off for US steel drum maker Skolnik Industries, with its units regularly deployed across the globe to safely handle some of the most demanding applications going, from chemicals to radioactives and more |
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Steels for success MANUFACTURING Mauser anticipates future growth for steel drums. Meanwhile, it has now harmonised it European plastics portfolio and opened a new fibre facility in North America |
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Achieving closure CLOSURES Packaging closure requirements have been around for more than 100 years and have evolved substantially since then. But do they really make the world safer? Paul Rankin* considers the issues |
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Fût alors! EXHIBITION REVIEW Anyone looking to combine romance with UN-approved industrial packaging for the transport of dangerous goods could have done a lot worse than making a beeline for Paris and the 40th instalment of the biennial Emballage exhibition this past November 19-22 |
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