GLG News by Container and Packaging Industry Experts in GLG Member Programs

As a shareholder in a trucking company established in 2006, there has been numerous changes impacting the industry.  1.  The cost of Truck registerations, has increased, while drivers are stuggling to pay for their trucks and if there is any repairs needed that sets them back. ...

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- Big packaging player moving into specilised healthcare business shows the importance of the specilised business and the opportunities.

SPX`s acquisition of APV is a fine example of a strategic power play to gain market share from formable giants the likes of Tetra-Laval and GEA.  Timely executed the strategy takes advantage of a recognized need for higher heat exchanger efficiencies and an increase of installed base. ...

Packaging companies are under attack as primary contributors to the waste stream. The media is touting environmental responsibility as the solution to global warming. Retail drivers such as Wal-Mart and Tesco are using "sustainability" issues to divert attention from other problems. Cities such as San...

•The remaining plastics assets at Owens-Illinois have been high profit businesses. •The company is looking to extract a premium – the successful buyer must insure that they acquire and retain all of the key assets and have a strategy to grow a plastic packaging business from the expensive...

-Sustainable Packaging provides triple bottom line benefits - Ecological, Sociological and Economical-Companies across the value chain are developing Sustainable packaging Strategies-Business practices are changing to fit the strategies, and Sustainable Companies are experiencing positive top and bottom...

High US corn and other seed demand and consequent price rises should increase planting in USA and Europe.High demand for bio-fuel may reduce materials available and raise prices for bio-plastics, which may temporarily slow down their uptake.