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The packaging industry wants to benefit from the application of mono-materials in its production. These materials offer several advantages: reduction of production costs and energy use, reduction of packaging waste and, most notably, improved recyclability. By not being composed of different materials, it eliminates the need for complex sorting processes, introducing
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Krones has scored yet again in terms of design excellence –The Contiform stretch blow-moulding machine and the Mobile Production Robotics system won the German Design Award in the Excellent Product Design Industry category. The German Design Award is one of the most prestigious design competitions worldwide, and enjoys an enviable reputation
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Improving a company and enriching a community by transmitting values and skills: Sacmi inaugurates its Academy. And that means a new facility, a dedicated team and over 48,000 training hours in 2022 alone for no less than 3,000 Group employees working at our Italian subsidiaries. Location Sacmi headquarters, via Selice Provinciale
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Akmert İplik San. ve Tic. A.Ş. is currently installing a Starlinger bottle-to-bottle recycling line for its new “GSR Granules” brand at the company’s rPET manufacturing facility in Kocaeli’s Gebze district near Istanbul. The recoSTAR PET 165 HC iV+ has an output of up to 1,800 kg of bottle-grade rPET pellets per
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The Alpla Group, together with its joint venture partners Ecohelp and UPT, has opened its first PET recycling plant in Romania after a construction time of nine months and investment of around 7.5 million euros. The state-of-the-art plant is now producing around 18,000 tonnes of recycled material per year from household
Read moreRevalyu Resources, a chemical PET recycling company, announced that it will invest USD 50 million during the initial phase of its strategic expansion in its first facility in the USA. The location for its new plant will be in Statesboro, Georgia where groundbreaking will take place in the first half of
Read moreThere is a well-known rule of progression when it comes to cavitation in medium and large-sized PET preform molds: 72, then 96, 128, 144. Sipa has demonstrated on numerous occasions that, with some clever hot runner configurations and ingenious tool engineering, it is perfectly possible to squeeze more cavities into a
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CCL Label, converter of pressure sensitive and extruded film materials for decorative, functional and information labels, has announced an innovation that was developed in-house in the Austrian Voelkermarkt site. The sleeve label hub presents the thinnest stretch sleeve in the market that is available at the moment – the sleeve has
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Remo Heusi is appointed as the new Vice President Global Service to lead and further develop the strategically important global service business of the Netstal Group. As a member of the Executive Board of Netstal Maschinen AG, he will report directly to Renzo Davatz, CEO of Netstal and member of the
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The Plastics Recycling Show Europe (PRSE), the pan-European exhibition and conference dedicated to plastics recycling, returns to the RAI Amsterdam, The Netherlands on 10-11 May 2023, expanding into two halls for the first time (Halls 11 and 12). Visitor registration for the free-to-attend event is now open! The Plastics Recycling Show
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Petcore Europe is pleased to announce that Christian Crepet, who has served as Executive Director of the association since 2017, will be moving into an Ambassador role as of January 1st, 2023. “We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to Christian for the incomparable work he has done in making
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