The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA) has announced that the 2019 Student Flexible Packaging Design Challenge is accepting entries.

Enel X has signed an agreement with Ontario-based food packaging company Amhil North America for the installation and operation of a 2.34 MW/4.7 MWh lithium-ion, behind-the-meter energy storage system.

Ball Corporation received antitrust clearance from the Federal Trade Commission to proceed with its $6.35 billion acquisition of rival Rexam PLC.

The demand for aseptic packaging in the US is projected to increase 6.8 percent per year through 2020, reaching a value of $6.4 billion.

The European Union’s competition regulator approved the deal on the condition Ball divest 10 can body manufacturing plants and two can end plants.

Colorado-based Ball Corporation, famous for its glass canning jars, said it will close one of its oldest North American beverage packaging plants by the second quarter of 2016.

Peacock Engineering Company has entered into an agreement to acquire Anaheim, CA-based L&L Foods, a provider of high-volume, single-serve/portion-control packages of food products.

 Fines were handed down by the commission for fixing prices and allocating customers of polystyrene foam or polypropylene rigid trays. 

Duravant, a global engineered equipment manufacturer serving the food processing, packaging and material handling sectors, said Thursday it has acquired the Spanish company Mespack, a manufacturer of flexible packaging equipment specializing in horizontal form-fill-seal technologies for flexible sachet, pouch and stick packs.

With a combined value of $16 billion, packaging giants Rock-Tenn Company and MeadWestvaco Corporation (MWV) announced they have entered into an agreement to merge, creating a global provider of consumer and corrugated packaging solutions.