Mar 29, 2019 | EC Industrial & Business News, Food & Beverage, Packaging
CODING and marking is a method of printing essential product and traceability information onto packaging, labels and other manufactured goods and materials. These include barcodes, serialisation codes, and expiry or ‘best by’ dates. While codes and marks can also be...
Mar 6, 2019 | Consulting Engineers & Project Management, EC Industrial & Business News, Food & Beverage, Government & Municipal, Packaging, Plastics & Rubber
THE Polystyrene Association of South Africa (PolySA) has hit back at accusations from parliamentarians that its members are among the biggest contributors to environmental pollution. The Association’s Chief Executive Officer, Adri Spangenberg, said that polystyrene...
Mar 4, 2019 | Food & Beverage, KZN Industrial & Business News, Packaging
TRACEABILITY in the packaging industry forms a very important aspect of the manufacturing process. Over the years the most common method of marking fast moving consumer goods has been ink-jet, but laser marking has been increasingly making inroads in this industry....
Feb 20, 2019 | EC Industrial & Business News, Events, Packaging, Plastics & Rubber
MORE than 20 industry leaders from the packaging, printing, and plastics industries will be sharing their insights into the latest developments and challenges in these industries over four days of free-to-attend seminars taking place during Propak Africa in March. An...
Feb 20, 2019 | Commerce & Trade, EC Industrial & Business News, Forestry, Pulp & Paper, Import / Export, Packaging
IN a difficult operating climate, the resilience of Sappi’s, business and the benefits from the diversification of its product portfolio in recent years have paid off. That was the message from Chief Executive Officer Steve Binnie, commenting on the paper and pulp...
Feb 1, 2019 | EC Industrial & Business News, Food & Beverage, Heating, Cooling & Ventilation, Materials Handling & Bulk Handling, Occupational Health, Packaging, Safety, Transport & Logistics
THE quality, shelf life and saleability of consumables are dependent on several factors, including their freshness. Linked to this is the absence of pollutants and unsafe micro-organisms. Creating favourable environmental conditions with temporary climate control...
Dec 12, 2018 | Commerce & Trade, KZN Industrial & Business News, Packaging, Quality Assurance
THE packaging and design industries have experienced unprecedented growth in recent years both locally and abroad. In order to deliver market-ready materials to an end-market that continues to grow both in its demands and its appetite for innovative packaging...
Nov 22, 2018 | EC Industrial & Business News, Food & Beverage, Materials Handling & Bulk Handling, Packaging, Transport & Logistics
IN what’s being hailed as a powerful vote of confidence in Port Elizabeth’s manufacturing industry, the country’s largest brewer, SAB and AB InBev Africa, has launched of a new R438-million production line at its Ibhayi...
Nov 14, 2018 | Harbour Infrastructure & Shipping, Import / Export, KZN Industrial & Business News, Materials Handling & Bulk Handling, Packaging
THE EU and other ports around the world are checking incoming containers at random for compliant contents and have impounded the shipments of a number of offenders over the past few years. That’s the warning from the Responsible Packaging Management Association of...
