Packaging

Currency Fluctuations Lead Verallia To Posts Marginal Decrease In Q2

Glass packaging firm Verallia has posted a 0.9% decrease in reported revenue for the second quarter of its financial year, of €650.1 million. Howev...

Stora Enso Shares Fall After Paper Maker's Q2 Disappoints

Finland's Stora Enso reported a 49% rise in second quarter profit on Friday, slightly below analyst expectations, citing production problems, maintenance a...

Plastics Packager RPC Posts 5.8% Rise In Revenue

RPC Group Plc, Europe's biggest plastics packager, has reported a 5.8% rise in quarterly revenue, helped by contributions from its Astrapak moulded-plastic...

Plastics Packager RPC Sees Shares Fall On Cash-Flow Worries

European plastic packaging leader RPC is stepping up capital investments, leading to a 4% decline in free cash flow in the year to end March and sending it...

International Paper To Refrain From Making Hostile Bid For Smurfit Kappa

Packaging giant International Paper will not make a hostile bid for Irish rival Smurfit Kappa, it said on Wednesday, after being given until 6 June to make...

Smurfit Kappa Reduces CO2 Emissions By A Quarter

Packaging giant Smurfit Kappa has released its annual Sustainable Development Report, in which it announced that it has achieved a 26% reduction of CO2 emi...

Plastic-Eating Enzyme Holds Promise In Fighting Pollution, Study Finds

Scientists in Britain and the United States say that they have engineered an enzyme that eats plastic – a breakthrough that could help in the fight a...