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Recently, in the Chinese province of Fujian, a new Sorema rPET line with a production capacity of 9,000 kg/h of flakes became fully operational and a second rPET line will be operational in the coming months. Both lines are designed to achieve high quality of rPET flakes to manufacture polyester monofilaments
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Online conference March 24, 2:00 – 3:00 pm CET Content Ask the experts: Learn from Sascha Baumanns, Head of Sales at Intravis about the possibilities of inspecting tethered caps. Mark Smith, Senior Vice President at Universal Closure and Michael Fink, VP Sales & Marketing of z-moulds will report on their joint
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Each time you embark on an Editour, you end up in countries, or at least part of them, where you never thought you would be when the tour was originally planned. The European Road Show has been running successfully since autumn 2021 and at the end of November, we received a
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The East Midlands of England has something of a cluster of businesses involved with packaging. We visited Measom Freer near Leicester just a few days before meeting Paccor at its site near Mansfield, near Nottingham, and its near-neighbour, R&D/Leverage, who we have known and encountered over many years and in many
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The UK has a history of bright, innovative startups that can change the landscape and evolve into commercial behemoths, from Lever Brothers – which merged with The Netherlands’ Margarine Unie and became Unilever – through Cadbury’s, the chocolate manufacturer; earthmoving equipment company JCB; and Sinclair Computers, which brought home computing to
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Mark Smith, Senior Vice-President at Universal Closures, took time out from a very busy and demanding schedule to visit the PETplanet Insider representative office in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, early in February. It was a pleasure to see him again; his news and views are always of interest and often revelatory. Universal
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While the North of England and pretty much all of Scotland and Northern Ireland were ravaged by Storm Arwen – some areas still hadn’t got power back, nearly two weeks later – the weather for my trip to Newport Pagnell in Buckinghamshire, 80 km NW of London, was changeable but reasonably
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At last – the Editourmobil is on the road again! The second stage of our two-part “Let Your Inspiration Flow” Tour has now begun. Our Team is exploring Europe’s technology hubs and spokes to discover and report on all the news and changes that the industry has experienced over the past
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Texen, a company for ecological transition within cosmetics packaging, is consolidating its materials expertise through an expanded partnership approach. One of the aims of its Materials R&D Roadmap is to make eco-design accessible to all brands and distributors, regardless of their size and environmental maturity, through streamlined and customisable solutions. As
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After the last Drinktec Editour “From Down Under to Japan”, PETplanet will be continuing with the second stage of its Tour, bringing news and exploring the innovations of technology hub Europe! Here, we will be back on the road with our Editourmobil for a new get-together with the industry. We will
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Avient announced the launch of Colormatrix Amosorb 4020R, a non-nylon-containing oxygen scavenger additive specifically formulated to enable the use of up to 100 percent recycled PET (rPET) content. According to Avient Amosorb 4020R delivers full, consistent oxygen scavenging performance with 25 percent, 50 percent, and even 100 percent rPET content. It
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