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Renowned PepsiCo bottler, MenaBev, has utilised Sidel’s extensive expertise to deliver seven new bottle formats across two PET lines. Sidel worked closely with MenaBev to convert two Combi PET lines in just one week at its vast mega plant. The quick, efficient and sustainable transition resulted in improved line performance, with
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The PETinar took place on June 6, 2023 at 2:00 – 3:15 pm CEST What is the current status of PET collection, capacity and availability of rPET? Casper van den Dungen presented the latest figures and draw attention to problems and challenges in the rPET market from Plastics Recycler Europe’s perspective.
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The Minister of Trade and Industry Ahmed Samir inaugurated, Fi Africa & ProPak MENA exhibition with the presence of delegation from the European Union, Commercial Attaché at the Embassy of Malaysia and a representative from the Brazilian Chamber of Commerce. The exhibition is co-located with Fi Africa at the Egypt International
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Krones was able to demonstrate its innovative strength again this year at the German Innovation Awards 2023. In the category “Special Mention: Excellence in Business to Business – Machines & Engineering”, the mobile robot system Mobile Production Robotics (MPR) received the coveted award. Mobile Production Robotics provides support during ongoing production
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The Plastics Recycling Show Europe (PRSE) 2023 exhibition and conference held recently in Amsterdam, the Netherlands attracted a record number of visitors and exhibitors from across Europe and more than 80 different countries internationally. With over 320 exhibiting companies and over 75 conference speakers in two theatres, the show saw a
Read moreThe Plastics Industry Association announced that exhibit space at NPE 2024: The Plastics Show, the global platform for innovation in plastics, has completely sold out. With more than 1.1 million net square feet of exhibit space, this is a significant achievement 12 months ahead of the triennial trade show. NPE previously
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MHT technology used in ASB Nissei single-stage process 128, 144 or even 192 preforms in a single shot. Everything in the drinks industry is geared towards high flow rates, and the two-stage procedure, where preforms are only later blown into bottles, has become established. But for special applications and moderate item
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Sipa has spent several years developing new injection mould tooling solutions for medical applications sector. A special cold-half core-centring technology that it developed for blood collection tubes (BCTs) is already used successfully at a leading global supplier of these critical and widely-used items. The solution Sipa developed is claimed to be
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Swiss made tethered closure From 2024 onwards, all plastic caps have to remain connected to the single-use container, in accordance with the EU Single-Use Plastics Directive, 2019/904, Article 6. As a result, there are now numerous designs of tethered caps with different manufacturing processes on the market. PETplanet spoke to Manuel
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Saving money and reducing CO2 emissions through hot runner refurbishment The company HRC is located near the historic town of Győr in Hungary on the banks of the Danube. HRC’s core business consists of the servicing of PET hot runners and providing high-quality spare parts to the PET packaging industry. Keeping
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LanzaTech Global, Inc. (Nasdaq: LNZA), a carbon capture and transformation (“CCT”) company that converts waste carbon into materials such as sustainable fuels, fabrics, packaging, and other products that people use in their daily lives, and Plastipak Packaging, Inc. (“Plastipak”), well-known in the design, manufacture, and recycling of plastic containers, announce they
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