contracts and projects
IPP Logipal lands leading paint
brand Dulux Akzonobel UK Decorative Coatings Business Unit, manufacturers of Dulux, Cuprinol, Hammerite and Polycell brands, has appointed IPP Logipal to provide a pallet pooling service for delivering its products to DIY centres and retail outlets in the UK. With several customers increasing quality control checks on incoming pallets, AkzoNobel appointed IPP Logipal to ensure Dulux products were consistently distributed on high-quality pallets across the UK. IPP Logipal’s simple one-way nationwide operation makes weekly deliveries to AkzoNobel’s Slough Manufacturing Unit and a depot in Stowmarket, Cambridgeshire. Over 150,000 pallets trips are made per annum to major DIY retailers, such as B&Q and Focus, as well as the leading supermarket chain, Tesco. Once utilised, pallet collections are arranged by IPP Logipal, with inspections carried out matched to KPI (key performance indicator) criteria, ensuring customers receive consistently high-quality pallets. For more information call 01676 524000 or visit
www.ipplogipal.co.uk.
Law Print turn up the heat with Qbag acquisition
L
aw Print & Packaging Management Ltd, have announced that they have now completed
the purchase of the Qbag business from FFP Packaging Solutions Ltd. The acquisition included the Qbag business, trademark, intellectual property, pending patents, website and manufacturing machinery. According to Tim Law, Managing Director of Law Print & Packaging Ltd, the Qbag manufacturing machinery will be re-sited to a new production facility and the award winning Qbag will be re-launched internationally within six months. Qbag Ltd has been formed as a subsidiary of Law
Novostrat imports its expertise into the UK & Irish markets
his extraordinary table and stools arrangement is made entirely from Novostrat Polyethylene foam plank, the same plank as Novostrat provide to the packaging industry, and each foam stool can easily take the weight of a 20 stone man, so just imagine how robust that will be in protecting any delicate, high value, item when converted and used as packaging material. Novostrat is one of, if not the, largest privately owned provider of polyethylene foams for packaging in Europe with massive production facilities in both France and Poland. Their new production facility in Limerick is geared
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Redpack supply two more HTS flow wrapping machines
wrapping machines. The two HTS machines, one left hand and one right hand will be supplied with product conveyering and will be configured to wrap Polyolefin shrink film. Part of the supply includes an important new development; an
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edpack have won another major contract for two of their HTS Top Seal flow
integrated check weighing system that will take the place of the flow wrapping machine product outfeed, an arrangement that will greatly reduce the space requirement of the flow wrapping lines. The Redpack supply will include product conveyors from the loading operators through the flow wrapping machines and will also convey the wrapped product to Redpack supplied shrink wrapping tunnels. Set onto the wrapped product conveyor will be a reject station to remove out of
weight product from the line.
For more information call 01603 722280 or visit
www.redpack.co.uk.
FACTORY PROFITABILITY SYSTEM BRINGS IMPORTANT BENEFITS
Marco have designed and commissioned an extensive factory profitability system for medical nutrition specialists Nutricia Liverpool at their stunning new UK manufacturing facility. Nutricia Liverpool specialises in Advanced Medical Nutrition and today, as part of Danone’s Medical Division, its products and services are available around the world through Nutricia International. The Marco Trac-IT system, which is a blend of bespoke software and hardware
modules, plays a pivotal supervisory and process management role throughout the manufacturing and packaging processes within the new plant. Working in conjunction with the Nutricia ERP system, Marco Trac-It manages the execution of factory floor processes including stock control, recipe control, packaging and labelling of finished product. For more information call 01342 870103 or visit
www.marco.co.uk.
up to produce packaging foams, in both rigid/semi- rigid plank and roll form, to the same standards as they do in Europe, in terms of quality, relative volume, and service support. For more information call 0035 3 61-339287 or visit
www.novostrat-insulation.com.
Print & Packaging Ltd to promote the Qbag product internationally from a Stockport based HQ. For more information 0161 440 7302 or visit
www.qbag.com.
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