SI Group announces resole capacity expansion plan in the U.S. and India

SI Group, a leading performance additives company, announced today plans to increase resole production capacities at their facilities in Rotterdam Junction, New York, and Lote, India. The goal of this capacity expansion of more than 25% is to propel the sites to become two of the world’s leading resole production and technology locations.  

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Label and release liner market to grow by $8.6 billion over next five years, according to new Smithers data

World demand for labels and shrink sleeve materials will be worth $41.59 billion in 2021, as the segment recovers from the unprecedented disruption of 2020. In a year blighted by Covid, world value fell by -0.6%. As a degree of economic stability returns Smithers forecasts this market is set to grow

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Competek providing Starlite base solution together with Supervent technology

A greener bottle without changing the entire production line or modifying the design of the bottle is now possible thanks to Competek: The French company Competek has launched a new service which makes it possible to produce a light-weight bottle with saving up to 1gr for the 0.5l bottle and 2gr

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Ocean Plastic virtual summit: 25 – 26 January 2022

AMI is delighted to announce the launch of a new event: the first ever edition of the Ocean Plastic virtual summit, taking place online on 25 – 26 January 2022. Valuable plastics escaping into the environment, our waterways and oceans is a challenge that an increasing number of organisations are tackling. Ocean and ocean bound

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Kao aims for material recycling of plastic bottles for cosmetics, begins using chemically recycled PET material

In line with its initiatives to realise plastic circularity in society, Kao Corporation will use chemically recycled PET (polyethylene terephthalate) material manufactured by PET Refine Technology Co., Ltd., a group company of Jeplan, Inc., for its cosmetics bottle containers. It will progressively introduce this material starting in June 2021, beginning with

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Alpla acquires South African packaging manufacturer

The global manufacturer of plastic packaging and recycling specialist, the Alpla Group, has acquired the manufacturer Verigreen Packaging based in Durban. The company specialises in bottles and canisters for lubricants such as engine oils. The Alpla Group acquired the lubricants division of the South African packaging manufacturer Verigreen on 7th July

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PCEP, SCS and EUMEPS join cross-polymer initiative PolyREC to monitor, verify and report on Europe’s recycled plastic flows

The non-profit association PolyREC announced that the value chain initiatives Polyolefin Circular Economy Platform (PCEP), Styrenics Circular Solutions (SCS) and European Manufacturers of Expanded Polystyrene (EUMEPS) have joined members Petcore Europe, PlasticsEurope, Plastics Recyclers Europe, and VinylPlus to support the setup of a harmonised, pan-European data collection system for both, plastics

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