Weekly Roundup: Clariant launches line of oxygen-absorber packets for healthcare, ALPLA acquires Zamil ALPLA

15 Feb 2019 --- In this week’s packaging news, specialty chemicals company Clariant launched a new line of oxygen-absorber packets for the liquid infusion market, while Ishida will be exhibiting three of its weighing and quality control solutions at Empack in Den Bosch, the Netherlands, next month. In business news, Austrian packaging solutions company ALPLA has completed a 100 percent takeover of Zamil ALPLA.

In brief: Product launches
Specialty chemicals company Clariant has launched a new line of oxygen-absorber packets for the liquid infusion market. The new Oxy-Guard oxygen-absorber packets were developed jointly by Clariant Healthcare Packaging and Nanjing Tianhua Tech Co, Ltd. These iron-based absorbers can help prevent degradation and color changes caused by oxygen in liquid infusion bags containing emulsion, amino acid, nutrition liquid and other pharmaceutical products. Standard packet sizes are available depending on the oxygen absorption capacity required for the application. Clariant’s Healthcare Packaging business unit exhibited the new line at Pharmapack 2019 in Paris earlier this month.

Ishida will be exhibiting a range of weighing and quality control systems at this years Empack trade show in the Netherlands.In brief: Packaging show previews
The wide variety of weighing and quality control solutions offered by Ishida to meet the specific needs of different products and applications will be demonstrated at this year’s Empack trade show in Den Bosch, the Netherlands, in April. The three multi-head weighers on the stand will all be examples of how Ishida aims to bring the necessary speed, accuracy and efficiency to the weighing products or targets weights. The range will include the Ishida Micro multihead weigher, the 6-head CCW-R2-106WB Fresh Food Weigher (FFW) and the Ishida DACS-GN-SE checkweigher.

Jet Label & Packaging Ltd., Western Canada’s largest producer of labels and printed tape, is to deliver a presentation discussing best practices for effective labeling design and application at Canada Health Foods Association West Show. Entitled, Three Keys to Having a Successful Label on Your Products, the educational “lunch & learn” session will share insights from Steve Smith, Jet Label’s Vice President of Marketing & Sales; and Dan Stickney, General Manager of Jet Marking Systems. Together, the two will share insights from joint ventures that have provided customers with total labeling solutions that include label design, manufacturing, application machinery and services that help customers integrate and optimize their lines for best-possible speed and performance.

In brief: Acquisitions and mergers
Austrian packaging solutions company ALPLA has completed a 100 percent takeover of Zamil ALPLA. Zamil and ALPLA founded a joint venture in 2008, of which ALPLA previously held a 49 percent share. After ten years of close collaboration as part of the joint venture, ALPLA has acquired all the shares of Zamil ALPLA. The buyer will continue to run the company as before, under the name ALPLA. Around 390 employees produce preforms and packaging made from HDPE and PET at three locations in Dammam, Jeddah (both Saudi Arabia) and Dubai (United Arab Emirates). The acquisition was signed on 27 December 2018 and is to be completed in the first quarter of 2019. The contracting partners have agreed not to disclose any of the details of the agreement.

In brief: Sustainability credentials
Aptar has been named one of the Top 100 Most Sustainable US Companies by Barron’s as part of their 2019 ranking, clocking in at number 79. Calvert Research and Management compiled Barron’s list and evaluated the 1,000 largest publicly held US companies (by stock market value). The rankings were then based on hundreds of metrics addressing environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) factors.