20.07.2010Overview of the 2007-2009 Russian Market of Glass Jars
2009 was a difficult year for the Russian market of glass containers. During the previous years, production capacities had failed to meet the needs of glass jar consumers, which led to a deficit in this market segment, while no such deficit was present in the glass bottle segment. In 2009, the latter had to reduce its volume of output by 18.3% under the impact of the economic crisis.
28.06.2010Penetrable casings: sorting out sausage chips
Casings are required for production of sausages: they give shape to items of products, protect them from environmental effects. Initially for sausage production only natural casings were used for filling with forcemeat. With increasing demand for sausage, production of artificial casings started to develop intensively.
23.06.2010Paper and Cardboard (Waste Paper) Processing Market
Wastepaper serves as feedstock for paper and cardboard producing factories. Research in wastepaper processing is currently focused on designing specialized processing equipment and developing chemicals and auxiliaries securing the required level of wastepaper preparation.
08.06.2010Onwards and upwards with bio products
Green investments are the best way to beat the crisis – a summary of the findings of a poll conducted by the European Bioplastics Association of its members. The bulk of companies questioned reported healthy growth figures for 2009, in some cases considerably more than 5% up on the previous year. The figures fulfilled - and sometimes exceeded – expectations. In May, 38 companies, among them many world leaders in polymer manufacture, revealed how they had fared in 2009 and voiced their expectations for the current year and 2011.
14.04.2010Glass Recycling Market in Russia
This market segment has the following specific feature: 97% of the collected glass comprises unbroken glass containers which, after cleaning and disinfection, are reused as packages for juices, beverages, etc. The remaining 3% of the collected glass (glass scrap) is used as source materials for glass industry. Taking into account the fact that the proportion of recycled glass reaches 20% and that the total amount of glass collected in 2009 was 3,277.2 thousand tons, in 2009 the recycled glass made up 655.4 thousand tons.
03.03.2010Flexible Metallized Package on the Russian Market
All varieties of flexible metallized packing materials can be conditionally split into four large groups: monolayer metallized package, composite metallized package, multilayer foiled package, and thermoformed blister trays. Research of the Academy of Conjuncture of Industrial Markets
17.11.2009System Approach to Trend Analysis in Package Development
Everybody knows that package is the product’s outfit making the first impression. This is why every manufacturer wants to dress the product up so that it looks elegant, stylish, beautiful, convenient, and practical; the goal is to catch eye of as many consumers as possible. In self-service stores choice decision is mainly ruled by what consumer can see on the shelf.
01.07.2009Russian Shrink Film Market in 2008
Single- and double-axis oriented film, which can be reduced under heating and fitted tightly to the packed items, is used as shrink film. In practical terms, any film, capable of increased shrinkage (up to 50% and more) and thus used for packing various products is normally referenced to as shrink film.
25.06.2009Flexible Multilayer Package Materials on the Russian Market
The term "multilayer film" is used only for materials consisting of several layers of synthetic polymers while composite films include layers of different materials – paper and foil. Wide application of flexible multilayer films is related to almost unrestricted varying of their properties through...