22 Dec 2021
Colorants Webshop – creating a better customer experience
The evolution of eCommerce has been rapid and enables levels of customer experience we could only dream about even 5 years ago. Customers expect more flexibility, more reliability, more transparency, and more speed. B2B customers are increasingly evaluating suppliers, not just based on product performance and sustainability, but also on their reliability, and customer experience.
22 Dec 2021
Clariant begins construction of flame retardants production facility in China
Clariant, a focused, sustainable and innovative specialty chemical company, today announced that it will construct its first Chinese production facility for its successful Exolit OP flame retardants at its existing site in Daya Bay, Huizhou, Guangdong Province. By establishing local production capacity, Clariant greatly enhances the speed at which it can provide solutions to its customers in China. Driven by the fast-growing electrical and electronic equipment industries, in particular e-mobility, 5G communications technology and transportation, there is a rapidly growing demand for Clariant’s innovative and sustainable flame retardants in China and other Asian markets.
21 Dec 2021
Perstorp increases TMP production capacity
Perstorp, the world leader in the production of Trimethylolpropane (TMP), has ramped up the capacity to meet growing demand from the European market.
16 Dec 2021
Mondi bags nine WorldStar Packaging awards
Mondi, a global leader in packaging and paper, received nine awards in six categories at this year’s WorldStar Packaging awards. Open to packaging companies around the world, the WorldStar awards recognise the best ideas, innovations and technologies on the market, with a focus on sustainability, product protection and end-user convenience.
16 Dec 2021
Airnov expands Changshu manufacturing site and releases new products for Chinese market
Airnov, a global leader in innovating packaging solutions for the healthcare market, has completed an expansion and upgrade of its manufacturing facilities in Changshu, China.
16 Dec 2021
Iceland freezes use of unnecessary plastic with launch of paper packaging from Mondi
Mondi, a global leader in packaging and paper, has teamed up with the UK’s number 1 frozen food retailer to provide renewable, recyclable packaging in a move that further validates Mondi’s approach of using “paper where possible, plastic when useful”.
16 Dec 2021
SABIC, Mars Petcare and Huhtamaki extend collaboration to wet pet food packaging based on certified circular polypropylene for SHEBA® brand
SABIC, Mars Petcare and Huhtamaki have announced that their successful collaboration in pet food packaging using certified circular polypropylene (PP) from SABIC’s TRUCIRCLE™ portfolio has taken the next step and will be used for innovative packaging solutions for the leading cat food SHEBA® brand. Mars Petcare, as part of Mars, Incorporated, a family-owned business with more than a century of history making diverse products and offering services for people and the pets people love, has adopted a flexible film structure with SABIC® PP BCT18F impact copolymer for retort pouches that are used in the packaging of wet pet food products for SHEBA®. The multi-layer film is manufactured by Huhtamaki, a key global supplier of sustainable packaging solutions to customers around the world.
15 Dec 2021
Clariant reveals its 2022 Color of the Year & new decorative color trend palette “golden”
Looking forward to a year of love, joy, mindfulness and making memories. Clariant pays an advance tribute to the year to come in its new Decorative Coatings Trends for 2022 – “golden”. Launched today, consumers are invited to take inspiration for decorating their rooms, spaces and furniture from the palette’s 40 new shades that reflect 4 different phases of natural human behaviors in the new world in which we live.
