Ceepackaging

Paperboard manufacturer Iggesund Paperboard, which is part of the Holmen forest products industry group, is investing EUR27m to improve wastewater purification at its Swedish mill Iggesunds Bruk. The purification facility will come online in the autumn of 2009. The mill manufactures Iggesund’s flagship product Invercote, which has a leading market position as a packaging material for prestige products and for use in graphics applications such as book and brochure covers and greeting cards.

Be it hairspray bottles, paint cans or oil tanks – thanks to BASF’s new Ultraform® E3120 BM, hollow objects with demanding requirements can now be made of polyoxymethylene (POM) by means of extrusion blow molding. In comparison to containers made of polyethylene (PE), they display considerable better barrier properties against gases such as oxygen, hydrogen and carbon dioxide. Ultraform E3120 BM is resistant to many types of media such as alcohol, oil and hydrocarbons, and moreover, it can be sterilized with hot steam. This product is now available in commercial quantities.

Maspex Wadowice, Poland, chose a special promotion for their juice and nectar brand “Kubus”: more than 40 different Twist-Off closure designs are printed with all relevant characters of “Shrek” - just in time for the launch of the new movie.

Constar's revolutionary DiamondClear™ oxygen scavenger technology has completed the FDA's Food Contact Notification process and is now available for certain applications. This achievement again demonstrates Constar's commitment to providing the marketplace with superior oxygen scavenging technologies for rigid packaging and is an important step in the evolution of DiamondClear™. Providing a high degree of clarity and exceptional gloss, the patented DiamondClear™ oxygen scavenger is blended directly into PET (polyethylene terephthalate) to create a highly cost effective monolayer structure.