industry news
Environmental investment for
Korsnäs Korsnäs Gävle has built a new evaporation plant investing a total of SEK 570 M to enhance energy efficiency and cut emissions. The investments mean that oil consumption will decrease by nearly 50 percent and that carbon dioxide emissions will therefore fall by the same amount. The plant was inaugurated by Barbro Holmgren, the County Governor of Gävleborg and Christer Simrén, CEO of Korsnäs. Alongside the inaugural speeches, project participants and employees of Korsnäs Gävle who were present enjoyed cake and entertainment provided by a brass band. The new plant has taken a number of years to plan and build, employing as many as 130 people. Tests of the plant have resulted in unanimously positive assessments. "This is an important investment for Korsnäs. It halves our carbon dioxide emissions and enhances the efficiency of our work," says Christer Simrén, CEO of Korsnäs. For more information call 0046 26 15 10 00 or visit
www.korsnas.com.
New future for Staeger
Staeger Clear Packaging is poised to enter the next phase of its exciting plans for the future with a move into new premises and investment in new equipment. The company is now based in a high specification production and warehouse facility at the Swallowgate Business Park, Coventry. The modern 24,000 sqft unit is ideally suited to Staeger`s requirements, with excellent connections to the UK`s transport infrastructure, including close proximity to the motorway network. Staeger Clear Packaging is one of the UK`s leading transparent carton, lid, base, sleeve and tube producers. It won the prestigious Company of the Year award at the UK Packaging Awards in 2009. Plans include a commitment to a further expansion of the business, which has seen sales grow
Quality and regulation
key in processing Multivac, the packaging solutions provider, has claimed that its process technology is being driven by regulatory and quality considerations. The company made the announcement ahead of demonstrating how its vacuum and modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) options can be integrated with high pressure processing (HPP) at this May’s interpack. Tobias Richter, product manager in the Systems Business
POLYPRINT ACHIEVES
CERTIFICATION Norfolk-based flexible films printer Polyprint has signalled its intention to expand into the food packaging sector by achieving British Retail Consortium (BRC) certification (packaging and packaging materials) – widely held to be the global standard within the food industry – at the first time of applying. The accreditation means that Polyprint can expand its operations into primary-contact food packaging printing – and the company is already winning orders destined for major supermarkets and their suppliers. Polyprint started life printing flexible mailing films, but has increasingly been called upon to print packaging materials over recent years, so the
NOBEL HELPS OUT KELLOGGS
What do Kelloggs think about Nobel Fire Systems? They’re gr-r-reat!!! That was the response from the people at the Kelloggs production facility near Wrexham after Nobel installed one of their K-Series fire suppression systems in the kitchen of the on-site staff canteen. With the majority of staff working on a 5-shift continuous rota basis, Nobel had to carry out all the installation work at a time when the staff would be least
inconvenienced. So the Nobel team of installers agreed with the specialist Fire Safety contractors that all work would be carried out in four hour shifts over a two day period to ensure minimum interference as far as the canteen and the all important Kelloggs workers were concerned. For more information call 01706 625777, email
ian.bartle@
nobel-fire-systems.com or visit
www.nobel-fire-systems.com.
by 35% since the Clear Packaging acquisition in 2008. For more on Staeger’s expansion, see page 30. For more information call 02476 581197, email
ian@staegerclear.co.uk or visit
www.staegerclear.co.uk.
Group, said: “Despite it being a niche technology with slightly higher costs, we see a lot of potential for HPP. In most cases, the advantages balance the costs quite well and open up new markets. In the US, many companies are already facing a situation where they actually have to use HPP because it’s demanded by retailers. We see a trend in Europe as well for regulations
to become stricter. The European Food Safety Authority has issued a proposal to Brussels indicting a possible change.” For more information call 01793 425800, email
sales@multivac.co.uk or visit
www.multivac.co.uk.
move towards BRC certification was a logical one – but far from straightforward. “The BRC standard is widely regarded as the global benchmark for best practice in the food industry.” For more information call 01603 721807, email
info@polyprint.co.uk or visit
www.polyprint.co.uk.
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