Iggesund Paperboard, manufacturer of Invercote, is inviting designers from around the world to participate in a unique learning experience. “We tried this for the first time in 2012 and the appreciation and enthusiasm we got from Read More
Staff Writer
March 6, 2013
Parkside Flexibles is celebrating the three-year anniversary of its manufacturing facility in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The plant—the company’s first outside of the United Kingdom—was opened in March 2010 by the Malaysian deputy minister Read More
Staff Writer
March 6, 2013
The Korea Tobacco Association (KTA), a civic group that advocates smokers’ rights, has come out strongly against a government plan to raise cigarette taxes to secure funding for President Park Geun-hye’s welfare pledges, according Read More
Staff Writer
March 6, 2013
Texas state senator, Carlos Uresti, is calling for the legal smoking age to be raised from 18 to 21, according to a report by Karen Grace for KVUE. Uresti says that more than 503,000 people now under the Read More
Staff Writer
March 6, 2013
The first 12 days of Zimbabwe’s flue-cured sales season saw what a Newsday story referred to as a marginal increase in volumes to 8.9 million kg, but a five per cent drop in the value of Read More
Staff Writer
March 6, 2013
Pfizer has agreed to settle the majority of lawsuits alleging its smoking cessation drug, Chantix, caused suicide and injuries, according to a Thomson Reuters story quoting the company’s annual filing to the Securities and Read More
Staff Writer
March 6, 2013
Imperial Tobacco’s sales force in Greece has won a national Sales Force of the Year award for the second consecutive year. The Sales Excellence Awards run by the National Greek Sales Institute (NGSI) acknowledge Read More
Staff Writer
March 5, 2013
Two provisions have been dropped from the final draft of an anti-tobacco law in Bangladesh following lobbying from tobacco companies, according to a story in The Daily Star. One of the provisions that have been Read More
Staff Writer
March 5, 2013
Israel’s Health Ministry is asking for public feedback on electronic cigarettes before deciding whether or not to ban them, according to a story by Judy Siegel-Itzkovich for the Jerusalem Post. This is despite a Read More
Staff Writer
March 5, 2013
Iggesund Paperboard’s magazine, Inspire, which aims to convey inspiration about paperboard, paperboard packaging and design, is now available also in Japanese. Inspire, which has a print run of almost 20,000 copies and which is distributed Read More
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