EAA announces Video Education Challenge
Dennis Smith Director Sales & Packaging at Precise Packaging has announced the Eastern Aerosol Association (EAA) Video Education Challenge. The EAA is in the process of creating an awesome new Aerosol 101 taking place on April …
CARB and The Dept. of Toxic Substance Control
CARB The California Air Resources Board (CARB) continues their work on Consumer Products. On Oct. 23, the CARB research division held its first meeting on the Low Vapor Pressure (LVP) Research Study Contracts to be conducted …
GHS is neither Global nor Harmonized
A common joke is that the Globally Harmonized System (GHS) is neither Global nor Harmonized. It is not harmonized due to the implementation differences in many countries. It is not global because it has yet …
Baseline Penalties Increase
In the July 2013 issue of Spray, I detailed the increase in minimum and maximum civil penalties published in the U.S. Dept. of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) final rulemaking, HM-258, on …
Surface anomalies in spray packaging materials and their relationship to corrosion.
The surfaces of spray package materials are far from perfect. The metal-making process, the processes used to fabricate metal containers, coating application processes and the foil lamination formation process often produce surface anomalies that could …
CCL Industries to permanently close Canadian aerosol manufacturing plant
CCL Industries Inc. announced that it plans to permanently close its Canadian aerosol manufacturing operation commencing in the first half of 2014 and completing no later than mid-2015. Geoffrey T. Martin, President & CEO of …
Ball to Consolidate North American Aerosol Can and End Capacity
Ball Corporation announced that it will cease production at the company's Danville, Ill., steel aerosol packaging manufacturing plant during the second half of 2014. Ball will redeploy the plant's assets to other existing company facilities …
Cobra Plastics hires Director of New Business Development
Cobra Plastics Inc. has announced Martin (Marty) Binder as the Director, New Business Development. Marty has thirty years of executive, sales, marketing and general management experience in the consumer packaging industry including food, beverage, pharmaceutical, …
Procter & Gamble Announces Organizational Changes
The Procter & Gamble Company announced that Dimitri Panayotopoulos, Vice Chairman and Advisor to the Chairman and CEO, will retire from the Company, effective January 2, 2014, after 37 years of service. Panayotopoulos joined P&G in …
Colep and Scitra join forces to manufacture aerosols in the Middle East
Colep, with headquarters in Europe, and Scitra, a United Arab Emirates based company, part of the Albatha Group, are proud to announce a joint venture agreement to create an aerosol contract manufacturing operation in the …