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“We are thrilled to add Recycold and its Recycold Cool Packs products to our portfolio of sustainable Cold Chain packaging solutions at Ranpak. Recycold will immediately bolster our position as a highly effective thermal solution provider in the marketplace,” said Omar Asali, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Ranpak.

The Leeds-based thermoformer will exclusively produce GravityTray – a plastic tray that uses gravity rather than absorbent soaker pads to remove liquids from packs of meat and fish. At present these pads render such trays unrecyclable, a problem further exacerbated by the fact that trays are currently produced from a variety of different materials, meaning recycling even without the pads is extremely unlikely.

• New globally available cationic UV curing release system offers excellent coating performance
• Latest release coating strengthens Evonik’s position in the global pressure sensitive adhesives market
• Continued growth in online commerce increases demand for high-performance label and packaging solutions

TEGO® RC 1442 is based on Evonik’s existing RC 1400 series technology and delivers all the same easy release performance benefits customers are used to.

VariOne is designed to immediately generate and print unique creative designs, based on an image or on vector graphics, in ‘endless complex patterns’.

Xeikon claims ‘complete uniqueness of each design’, which it said can be driven by the database or randomly created from bitmap or vector-based images, creating new and unusual designs in millions of shapes, styles and surreal effects.

Brand owners will be able to utilise this in a variety of sectors with different applications including high-end label and packaging.

India’s ethnic snack-food giant Haldiram’s Nagpur has opened its own manufacturing facility for long shelf-life dairy products, setting up a massive dairy facility, with an investment of over Rs. 100 crores.

The brand has tied up with SIG, a leading systems and solutions provider for aseptic carton packaging, leveraging the latter’s pioneering filling machines for aseptic carton packs.