Sensory closure for flexible packaging

New closure from Aplix provides audible and tactile feedback when opening and closing, so consumers know their package is sealed. See this at ProPak Asia in Bangkok.

Allen Pack offers packaging materials and sleeving machines

Taiwan-based Allen Pack has a wide range of packaging materials and produces shrink sleeving machines.  

Ageing well: Trends and new products

Health and nutrition for adults and the elderly are a growing business not only in Asia, but across the globe.

New study on prebiotic chicory root fibre

Prebiotic chicory root fibre maintains microbiota balance in children – even following antibiotic treatment.  

SIAL China welcomed 117,595 visitors in 2019

The 2019 edition of SIAL China surpassed all key figure set in 2018, expanding 23% year-over-year (YOY) in scale by occupying all 199,500 square meters of SNIEC, attracting 4,300 exhibitors (+26% YOY), and welcoming 117,595 professional visitors (+7% YOY).

PLASCO monofilament line levels up

PLASCO has made significant improvement in its monofilament extrusion lines and Tony Wang, General Manager, was present at CHIINAPLAS 2019 to talk about it.  .

Italy has biggest pavilion in ProPak Asia

Supporting Italian companies in Asia and across the globe, UCIMA brings 40 packaging exhibitors to this year’s ProPak Asia.  

Arburg Thailand expands premises

Arburg has expanded in Thailand with the inauguration of a new building that houses the largest Arburg showroom in Southeast Asia 

Cost a barrier to healthy eating in Malaysia - FIA

The Food Industry Asia (FIA) and IGD survey Malaysian consumers and F&B businesses to understand behavioural trends and provide a reformulation landscape.  

Award-winning gin celebrates the Asian spirit

A shot at gin manufacturing wins awards and a growing list of clients for Singapore-based company, writes JEAN ALINGOD-GUITTAP.  

Drying with IoT, cloud-based data management

PAUL MCKEITHAN, head of Digital Services at Bühler Aeroglide, explains the 10 ways this new frontier is changing operations as we know them.  

Ishida system inspects potato chip packaging

Sealtesters and checkweighers from Ishida Europe help maintain quality control on packaging lines for potato chips made by Johanning Snack.