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Otto Hofstetter India is expanding its Indian office and production site. In response to the growing interest in high-quality moulds for food packaging in the Indian market, the daughter company of the Swiss mould manufacturer Otto Hofstetter AG is in the process of building a bigger and state-of-the-art production facility in Bangalore.
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Online conference May 6, 1:00 – 2:00 pm CEST The seventh PETinar organised by PETplanet Insider took place on May 6, 2022. PETplanet invited two experts to talk about trends and chances for recyclability, circularity and sustainability of PET and rPET. You can download the presentations here: Casper W.G.M. van den
Read moreFiji based Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP Fiji) recently announced that its PET bottles below 1-litre in volume are now produced from 100% rPET.According to CCEP Fiji’s GM Roger Hare these changes apply to the company’s brands Coca-Cola, Fanta, Sprite, Minute Maid, Powerade and Schweppes. CCEP’s step of increasing the processing of
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The Road Show has made its first visit to Austria! On 20 April, Austria’s leading mineral water producer Vöslauer, a subsidiary of the Ottakringer brewery, held a press conference on the reintroduction of the returnable PET bottle. Interestingly, these reusable bottles were first around thirteen years ago, before vanishing from the
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The mineral water supplier Vöslauer from near Vienna established the first returnable bottle plant in Austria on 20 April with support from Climate Protection Minister Gewessler and the environmental organisation Greenpeace. Taken off the shelves 13 years ago, the environmentally-friendly returnable PET bottle is now making a comeback on the Austrian
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The “Pressure Safe” PET aerosol container design shall give home and personal care brands the opportunity to offer more environmentally sustainable dispensing spray packaging. The PET product-packaging solution is approved for the traditional PET recycling stream and shall serve as an alternative to traditional metal aerosol container for use with products
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In a segment where the product is water and the target group is children, the main challenge is to offer an incentive to consume fewer sweetened beverages and replace them with healthy water instead. Being in the market for some time already, the Bonafont Mascot brand of Danone Brazil was in
Read moreAptar Group, Inc., a global leader in drug delivery, consumer product dispensing, and active material science solutions and services, is pleased to announce its progress in testing and transforming Purecycle Technologies, Inc.’s Ultra-Pure Recycled (UPR) plastic. Aptar and Purecycle are working to determine the right material combination to create hinged closures for food,
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Just under two hours south-west of Turin in Italy, at the foot of the Maritime Alps and close to the French border in the province of Cuneo, alpine water finds its way into PET bottles. Sant’ Anna, as the water bottler is called, is a family business ‘with a heart and
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Tomra has just published its latest white paper examining how to achieve greater performance from Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) programs. This policy principle shall give the power to accelerate society’s shift towards a more circular economy, where resources are reused repeatedly to maximize their value.In a webcast that took place on
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Online conference March 24, 2:00 – 3:00 pm CET The sixth PETinar organised by PETplanet Insider took place on March 24, 2022. PETplanet invited three companies to talk about Tethered Caps. Summary Mark Smith from Universal Closures spoke about his experience in developing the right Tethered Closures solution for specific applications.
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