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Following the numerous commitments of the industry players to increase uptake of recycled plastics, including the new mandatory target of 25% in PET bottles by 2025, the European PET Bottle Platform (EPBP) and RecyClass decided to join efforts to further support the value chain actors in making the right design decisions
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The Covid pandemic continues to shake up the international event calendar in the global beverage technology sector in 2022. After intensive consultation with the companies and associations represented on the BrauBeviale exhibition advisory committee, the event organiser, Nürnberg Messe, has decided to suspend BrauBeviale 2022, from 8 – 10 November 2022.
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Collaborative programme between plus10, SKZ and Sumitomo (SHI) Demag identifies AI advances and how injection moulding machines from multiple manufacturers can learn from each other. The Fraunhofer spin-off plus10 has been conducting application-oriented research together with the South German Plastics Center SKZ. As part of their DarWIN research project, new AI-based
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Nutroma’s goal for the future? That all the bottles are made of 100% rPET. This is how they strive for circular packaging. In other words: products that are recycled again and again so that they can make new ones. Nutroma is not quite there yet, but they’re working on it. And
Read moreIndorama Ventures Public Company Limited would like to inform that it, through its affiliate, Indorama Netherlands B.V., is in the process of acquiring potentially all of the shares of Ngoc Nghia Industry – Service – Trading Joint Stock Company (“NN”), an UPCoM (Unlisted Public Company Market) registered entity on the Hanoi
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From January 2022, Germany’s deposit return system will expand to include alcoholic and milk-based mixed drinks and juices sold in one-way plastic packaging and cans. This will result in greater transparency for consumers, since up until recently, the system (set up in 2003) has included a special provision which exempts these
Read moreClariant, a focused, sustainable and innovative specialty chemical company, today completed the sale of its Pigments business to a consortium of Heubach Group (“Heubach”) and SK Capital Partners (“SK Capital”). As announced upon signing of the transaction, the base enterprise value of the sale amounts to CHF 805 million subject to
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A new stackable jar from Berry Global offers a valuable space saving solution on retail shelves, through e-commerce channels and in the home. At the same time, the jar provides consumer convenience, and its effective product protection, reusability and recyclability enhance its environmental profile. The new design of the 500ml Staka
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The food-grade PET recycling system will be supplied to rPET flake producer Başatlı in April 2022. The recoSTAR PET 215 iV+ will be Starlinger’s first bottle-to-bottle recycling system operating in Turkey. It is equipped with one of the biggest extruder sizes that Starlinger recycling technology is currently building and produces up
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Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL), a global sustainable chemical company, has been awarded the Platinum Medal by EcoVadis Sustainability Assessment. The company also achieved first place in ChemScore, which ranks the world’s 50 largest chemical companies’ environmental credentials. EcoVadis, a rating agency focusing on sustainability in the supply chain, awarded
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Effective February 1st, 2022 Dr Stefan Engleder will take over all agendas from Christoph Steger. Dr Christoph Steger, hitherto Chief Sales Officer, is leaving the Engel Group at his own request. Background for his withdrawal is his wish to further develop himself vocationally and to change his career orientation. “We would
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