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Indorama Ventures completes acquisition of Europe’s leading supplier of packaging barrier products and polyester polymers in Germany

6 Mar 20195 Mar 2019 Heike Fischer 1803 Views 1 min read

Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL), a global chemical producer, announced the completion of its acquisition of Invista Resins & Fibers GmbH, a specialty chemicals asset located in Gersthofen, Germany. The Gersthofen site has a combined capacity of 282,000 tonnes/annum, and employs approximately 140 employees. Indorama Ventures had previously announced its

Companies News

Chuck Flammer joins Bekum America as Business Development Manager

5 Mar 20195 Mar 2019 Heike Fischer 2193 Views 1 min read

Chuck Flammer has joined Bekum America Corporation, one of the leading designer and manufacturer of blow moulding machinery, as its Business Development Manager. Prior to joining Bekum, Flammer served as Vice President of Sales for Kautex North America. “We are thrilled to welcome Chuck Flammer to our team,” said Steve London,

Events News

New approach to packaging sustainability will presented by PTI at Sustainability in Packaging Conference

4 Mar 20195 Mar 2019 Heike Fischer 2513 Views 1 min read

A new approach to packaging sustainability is going to be presented by Thierry Fabozzi, president and chief executive officer of PTI, at the Sustainability in Packaging Conference 2019, March 4-6, Swisshotel Chicago. Fabozzi will be challenging common packaging sustainability initiatives, while calling attention to the low collection rate of post-consumer waste

Events

New trade fair for the food-, beverage and packaging industry in South America: Messe München and ABIMAQ to launch INTECHTRA in 2020

25 Feb 201926 Feb 2019 Heike Fischer 1895 Views 1 min read

Messe München with its subsidiary Messe München do Brasil won the bidding for a new trade fair for the food-, beverage-and packaging-industries: INTECHTRA will be held for the first time fromSeptember 29 till October 2, 2020. The show takes place biannually at the São Paulo Expo. ABIMAQ, together with their Sectorial

News

New IMD production facility

22 Feb 201926 Feb 2019 Heike Fischer 1859 Views 0 min read

Now IMD can guarantee the high order volume with shorter delivery times. The new production area, the warehouse and the demonstration room are spacious and modern, less than 50m away from the old location. From mid-2019, the other areas will also move into the same building – then everything will be

Companies

Festive inauguration at motan-colortronic in India

20 Feb 201926 Feb 2019 Heike Fischer 2324 Views 2 min read

motan-colortronic India Private Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of the motan group moved to their modern larger premises in Chennai, India. In the presence of Karin Stoll, the Consul General for the Federal Republic of Germany, the new company building was festively inaugurated. “With the move to the larger building we

Inspection

Advanced thin-wall measurement for PET bottles

19 Feb 201926 Feb 2019 Heike Fischer 5289 Views 1 min read

With increasing focus on sustainability in packaging, Agr’s new lightweight option for the Process Pilot blowmoulder management system gives brand owners and bottle manufactures another tool to meet this complex and growing challenge. The Process Pilot system, with the lightweight option provides assurance that the limited material available for producing a

Companies Preform Production

Bright future at Retal’s solar powered facility

14 Feb 201926 Feb 2019 Heike Fischer 2868 Views 2 min read

Renewable energy was celebrated at the official opening of the largest roof-mounted solar powered plant in the Baltic States at global plastic packaging manufacturer Retal’s Lentvaris factory. Attended by many of Lithuania’s leading business people interested in green energy, the event, called “Solar Energy and Lithuanian Business: Good Practices and Challenges”,

Companies

Alpla completes takeover of Zamil Alpla

14 Feb 201926 Feb 2019 Heike Fischer 2557 Views 0 min read

The packaging solutions specialist Alpla, based in Austria, has completed a 100 per cent takeover of Zamil Alpla. Alpla and Zamil founded a joint venture in 2008, of which Alpla previously held a 49 per cent share. After ten years of close collaboration as part of a joint venture, Alpla has

Bottles / Bottle Making Bottling / Filling

Complete nutrition on the go

13 Feb 201926 Feb 2019 Heike Fischer 3044 Views 2 min read

With a turnover of £14 million in 2017 and £40 million (45,687,551,97€) in 2018, Huel is one of the fastest growing companies in the UK. Revolutionising the nutrition game in less than four years, it offers customers nutritionally complete meals with a mission surrounding convenience, affordability and lessening the impact on

Recycling

Erema Group acquires 60 percent stake in Plasmac

1 Feb 201926 Feb 2019 Heike Fischer 2716 Views 2 min read

The Austrian Erema Group acquired 60 percent of the recycling machine manufacturer Plasmac Srl to further expand its range of tailor-made plastic recycling solutions for in-house applications. The remaining 40 percent of the recycling machine manufacturer is owned by Syncro Group, a manufacturer in Italy that makes equipment for the blown