NEWS
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Submissions for the AmeriStar Awards, sponsored by the Institute of Packaging Professionals, are due by October 26, 2007. AmeriStar honors the best packages of the year with winners selected from 15 packaging categories. Any package produced after January 1, 2006, and not previously entered into an AmeriStar competition, can be submitted to the 2007 program. Judging will be held December 7 at IoPP headquarters in Naperville, IL. For more information, visit www.iopp.org/ameristar.
Sold back in March 2007 to Odewald & Cie (Berlin), IWKA’s former packaging technology division has been renamed Oystar, The Process & Packaging Group. Held by Oystar Holding GmbH (Stutensee/Karlsruhe, Germany), the group represents 16 manufacturing companies and several sales and service companies globally as follows:
- Oystar A + F
- Oystar Aerofill
- Oystar Benhil
- Oystar Dawson
- Oystar Erca-Formseal
- Oystar Fabrima
- Oystar Gasti
- Oystar Hassia
- Oystar Hassia India
- Oystar Hüttlin
- Oystar IWK
- Oystar Jones
- Oystar Manesty
- Oystar Packaging Technologies
- Oystar Systems
- Oystar Tecmar
Equipment offerings include: tray and crate machines, palletizers, aerosol filler machines, wrapping machines, form-fill-seal machines for bags and cups, blister pack machines, tube fillers, and cartoners. Sales and service include Oystar USA, Oystar Russia, and Oystar China.
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Neff Packaging has expanded its carton production with its new facility.
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“We serve a growing world market. Our strategic efforts will not be focused just on organic growth. Market share will also be increased through acquisitions,” says Wolf-Dieter Baumann, chairman of the Board of Oystar Holding. The group sees growth potential mainly in Asia and the United States, particularly in the pharmaceutical industry.
Neff Packaging Solutions Inc. has expanded into a 122,000-sq-ft facility in Simpsonville, KY. The producer of custom packaging for health and beauty aids and medical devices and pharmaceuticals is expanding its production capabilities, such as for custom folding cartons. The new facility became operational June 1, and it will employ 110 workers.
To celebrate the expansion, Neff Packaging Solutions held an open house on September 18 in Simpsonville. Also held were seminars on sustainability in packaging and paperboard packaging.
