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Inside Verallia’s large-format and custom Champagne bottle production site

The glassmaker produced 8,000 bottles this year during the month-long production run dedicated to 9-liter, 12-liter and 15 liter formats. Luxe Packaging Insight got an inside look at the annual manufacturing process.Each year in a month-long...

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HP: Opening a world of possibilities

Christophe Gramfort, Country Manager France at HP, talks to Luxe Packaging Insight about recent partnerships and the company’s new digital presses for labels and packaging, which are opening up a whole new world of possibilities for a...

How Guala Closures' future UK site fits with its premiumization strategy

Italy’s Guala Closures Group has been given planning approval to build a new 20,500m2 plant in Gartcosh, Scotland. The facility, set to debut operations from January 2024, will exclusively serve the whisky closures market.Italian closures...

Steklarna Hrastnik to buy Serbian glassworks SFS Paracin

With Serbian glassmaker SFS Paracin slated to join its portfolio early next year, Steklarna Hrastnik is moving ahead with its strategy of focusing production at its Slovenian headquarters on premium glass packaging.Slovenian glassmaker...

Quadpack opens decoration facility in Germany, reveals further investments

Representing an investment of €1m, a new 900m2 decoration center at Quadpack’s Kierspe plant in Germany enables the beauty packaging supplier to bring two previously outsourced activies, silkscreening and hot-stamping,...

Van Genechten signs JV with CartonCare Group

Reinforcing its presence in the UK market, Belgian packaging group Van Genechten has inked a 50/50 joint venture with UK-based paper packaging supplier CartonCare.A joint venture was announced this week between Van Genechten and CartonCare,...

Fedrigoni acquires Arjowiggins’ Spanish subsidiary as insolvent UK activities fail to find buyer

Italian papermaker Fedrigoni has announced the acquisition of Spanish premium papers specialist Guarro Casas from Arjowiggins. The news comes as Arjowiggins’ struggling UK operations failed to find a buyer within the allotted timeframe.Hot...

Formes de Luxe x Glass Valley fetes the Year of Glass

Formes de Luxe, Luxe Packaging Insight's sister publication, published a special issue dedicated to Glass Valley, France's industrial glassmaking cluster, this summer. Access the full digital version of the magazine...

Superga Beauty’s Cosmeurop site bets on fragrance made in France

As a subcontractor specialized in the production and packaging of beauty products, Superga Beauty has high hopes for the sector. Its Cosmeurop factory in Strasbourg, acquired from L’Oréal last year, is helping the supply position itself...

Amid market challenges, Bormioli Luigi positions for growth

The European energy crisis is proving to be a critical time for glassmakers. Luxe Packaging Insight visited Bormioli Luigi’s glassworks at its Parma headquarters earlier this month and spoke with the Italian company’s management about...