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The Unkai Sushi Box produced by Ernst Schausberger & Co GmbH in Austrian Gunskirchen, a company of the Mayr-Melnhof Group, unites the MM Karton quality Linoplex 350 gms with extraordinary design and highest functionality to make this carry-box an eye-catcher de Luxe.

Austrian company Berglandmilch has invested in a multihead weigher and checkweigher from Ishida Europe, enabling it to pack grated cheese accurately into bags to within one gram of target weight and leading to a fast payback on the investment.

MTC Pharma Center specializes in the production of high quality foil packaging solutions for the pharmaceutical industry. The company is owned by Austria-based MTC Holding, an international group with production sites also located in Croatia, Slovenia, Romania and Serbia, and works in partnership with Constantia Verpackungen AG Group.

An Ishida RS-Series multihead weigher installed at leading Austrian confectionery manufacturer Zotter Schokoladen Manufaktur GmbH has enabled the company to achieve a new level of packing accuracy for its premium ‘Balleros’ range, resulting in an extra 20 boxes for every 1000 produced.

All polypropylene reactors in a new laboratory at the Borealis Innovation headquarters in Linz, Austria, are now up and running and yielding results well beyond original expectations. The reactors will form an important part of the company's strategy to accelerate product development.

Not long ago everyone was talking about „decoupling“, the supposed ability of emerging market economies to keep growing even if other economies fell into recession. That was then. Now the “hard landing” in emerging markets may become the “second epicenter” of the global crisis and CEE looks like it may take center stage. After years of credit excesses, few places look more vulnerable than the countries from the Baltics to the Black Sea.

On July 4, 2008 Mondi Frantschach inaugurated a Bag Application Centre (BAC) at the site of its R&D Innovation Centre. The already successful development work now also covers packaging technology research. In his opening speech, Peter J. Oswald, CEO of the Mondi Division Europe & International, stressed that Mondi is now in an even better position to provide comprehensive customer-oriented product development from fibre resources to the final packaging solution.

Borealis, a lprovider of plastics solutions, announces the appointment of Alfred Stern as Vice President (VP) for Innovation and Technology, effective June 1, 2008. He will be succeeding Wim Roels, who assumes leadership of the company’s Moulding business, and be based at the company’s Innovation Headquarters in Linz, Austria.

Starlinger, the world’s leading supplier of production technology for FIBCs of various sizes and types and of machinery for load testing of the finished container bags, recently became the newest member of EFIBCA, the European FIBC Association.

A rail strike and snow storms marked the start of BRAU Beviale 2007 in the Exhibition Centre Nuremberg (14-16 November), but this did not deter the 34,456* trade visitors (2006: 36,260*) at this year’s most important capital goods exhibition for the beverage industry. The share of international visitors rose in both percentage and absolute terms. 28 % came mainly from Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Russia, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, France, Great Britain, Italy and other growth markets in Central Eastern and Eastern Europe to source information about beverage raw materials, technologies, logistics and marketing from the 1,416* exhibitors (2006: 1,437*) – almost 40 % of them international.

From 1st December 2007, Hendrik Matischak will take over the responsibility as “Strategic Business Development Manager, International Sales” at HSM and will report directly to the Managing Director, Irene Dengler.

Austrian packaging specialist GIKO is presenting a well-rounded offering at FachPack. This features high-tech packaging films, modern cardboard tubing, cartons and boxes as well as oversize packaging in ultra-heavy corrugated board.