Mold-Masters expands aftermarket support with New Southwest USA service facility

Mold-Masters, a leading developer and supplier of hot runners, controllers, auxiliary injection, and co-injection systems, is pleased to announce the opening of a new full-service customer support center in Phoenix, AZ. This strategic expansion strengthens Mold-Masters’ aftermarket capabilities across the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico. The Phoenix facility is fully

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Avantium collaborates with Hoogesteger on PEF bottles for fresh juices

Avantium N.V., a  well-known company in renewable and circular polymer materials, has signed a conditional offtake agreement with Hoogesteger, a leading producer of fresh cold-pressed juices in the Netherlands. Hoogesteger will purchase the 100% plant-based, recyclable polymer PEF (polyetehylene furanoate) from Avantium’s FDCA Flagship Plant for the use in bottles for

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StackTeck capacity growth update

StackTeck Systems Ltd., a global manufacturer of high-volume injection moulding solutions for thinwall packaging, closures, PET preforms, personal care and medical products, has continued to increase capacity with investments in new machinery and automation throughout their manufacturing and testing facilities totaling $14.3 million USD in the last 3 years. Michael Gould,

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Emirates Biotech and Sulzer advance strategic partnership with the equipment supply contract for the world’s largest bioplastics facility

Emirates Biotech has recently signed a supply contract with Sulzer to provide the proprietary equipment that will serve as the technological core of the world-scale Polylactic Acid (PLA) production facility being built by Emirates Biotech. This follows a licensing agreement signed in December 2024. This strategic milestone confirms Emirates Biotech’s transition

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PepsiCo refines sustainability goals to position business for the long-term

PepsiCo announced refined climate, packaging, agriculture, and water goals to continue to build a stronger, more resilient business that aims to drive scalable positive impact. The updated goals build on nearly four years of progress and learnings since the launch of the PepsiCo Positive (pep+) business strategy, which embeds sustainability into

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MAAG Group to acquire Sikora AG

MAAG Group is pleased to announce that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire SIKORA AG, a recognised leader in measuring and control technologies. This acquisition accelerates MAAG’s innovation capabilities in machine learning, industrial IoT, and AI-driven technologies. Headquartered in Bremen, Germany, SIKORA is well-known in the market in

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CHINAPLAS 2025 review

CHINAPLAS 2025 successfully wrapped up on April 18 with 281,206 visitors (an increment of 13.29% compared to CHINAPLAS 2023 in Shenzhen) in 4 days. Among them, visitors from overseas countries and Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan region of China rocketed to 68,542, accounting for over 24% of total visitors, a remarkable

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Nordson BKG and FIMIC announce enhanced partnership

Nordson BKG GmbH, part of Nordson Corporation’s Polymer Processing Systems (PPS) division, specialist in melt delivery, and pelletising solutions, and FIMIC Srl., a well-known provider of innovative melt filtration technology, announced a deepened strategic partnership, building on FIMIC’s appointment as the exclusive agent for Nordson BKG products in Italy announced in

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One month to go: PET Thermoforms Circularity Conference “How can collection and sorting of PET Thermoforms be improved?

The conference will take place on May 27- 28 2025, in France, Dijon & Beaune. The first day of the event will feature presentations from major experts in the field of thermoforms, followed by panel discussions with the guests from the industry. Speakers from the EU will join the event to explain

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