Amcor Rigid Plastics has expanded its extrusion blow molded PP bottle capacity in the Midwest, Southwest, and Canada in response to strong market demand for packaging for food and nutritional supplements.
Amcor Rigid Plastics has launched a business platform called UpStart to help emerging beverage companies in their small-volume production with custom PET bottles.
Joint venture with Sidel, Yoshino Kogyosho & Nestlé Waters
Amcor’s LiquiForm, which uses consumable liquid instead of compressed air to hydraulically form and fill a container on one machine simultaneously will be commercialized in two to three years’ time.
Amcor has announced the name of its new company, Orora, following the demerger of its Australasia and Packaging Distribution (AAPD) business this year.
Amcor Rigid Plastics says US airlines are driving demand for wine bottles made from lighter, cheaper PET rather than glass within the high growth single-serve market.
Amcor has said the trend that has seen carbonated soft drink and water (CSDW) players moving towards self-manufacture of packaging over the past decade is coming to an end.
Amcor said strong performance across the board in its flexible and rigid packaging divisions fuelled a 14% profit increase in the first half of the year as recent acquisitions of Ball and Alcan continued to reap rewards.
Amcor Rigid Plastics claims that its new 24oz (680g) polyethylene terephthalate (PET) hot fill container will ‘unseat glass’ as the dominant material for food receptacles of this size.
Amcor has hailed its $280m acquisition of Ball Plastics Packaging Americas as another step outside of PET that gives it new material and process capabilities.
Australian packaging giant Amcor has announced the sale of two of
its European flexible packaging production facilities as part of
its restructuring programme.
A new type of plastic bottling technology allows companies to
package hot-fill products in containers with smooth rather than
ribbed or panelled walls.
Restructuring costs at Amcor's PET plastics and flexible packaging
divisions have contributed to a decline in first-half net profit,
though the Australia-based company expects an improvement in the
second half, despite the impact...
Amcor has introduced a new shaped VB 375ml can for Carlton &
United Breweries in Australia. The can was commissioned for the
launch of a limited edition series to celebrate the cricket
internationals being held there.
Leading juice manufacturer Pampryl has become the first French
producer to adopt aseptically filled multi-layer PET for its
ambient-stored 100 per cent fruit juices. The new packaging, from
Amcor PET Packaging Europe/Asia, also marks...
Dairy Crest, the largest dairy food company in the UK, has become
the latest company to choose Amcor FlexCan from Amcor Flexibles for
its new diced cheese product. Dairy Crest is using the patented
innovative flexible container for...
Packaging giant Amcor continues to consolidate and diversify its
global business with a recent acquisition in Mexico. As they say,
if you want to stay at the top, you've got to keep on moving.
Amcor PET Packaging has launched the Rebound line, which the
company claims sets a new standard for hot-fill polyethylene
terephthalate (PET) bottles. The new line has been developed to
offer improvements to aesthetic and functional...
Australian beverage packaging provider Amcor, which recently spent
A$3 billion (€1.67bn) to buy Schmalbach in Germany, has just spent
A$135 million on a single burner glass plant near South Australia's
Barossa Valley, marking...
