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Engel Group board reshuffle on 1st February 2022. Dr. Gerhard Dimmler, previously Vice President Research and Development, is being appointed to the board as CTO. He is taking over the Development division from CEO Dr Stefan Engleder and will also be responsible for digitalisation on top of this. “Gerhard Dimmler has
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Second Life, Otto Hofstetter AG’s mould brokerage service, offers mechanically sound moulds that are no longer used by their owners to other producers who can use them. Before going to its new owners, the mould is completely overhauled at the factory in Uznach and comes with a one-year guarantee. Otto Hofstetter’s
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Responding to tethered caps requirements The Austrian mould maker and closure specialist z-moulds is known for its unique slider technology used for all beverage closures with tamper evidence bands. The so-called z-slides system is patented and used by many closure producers around the world. To meet tethered caps requirements, the proven
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The Plastics Industry Association (Plastics) has promoted Patrick Krieger, Senior Director for Materials & Sustainability, to the newly created role of Vice President for Sustainability. “As an industry, we intend to be all-in on sustainability, helping to lead the way toward a truly circular economy. Patrick will play an essential role
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With the aim of boosting the circular economy in the states of south-east Mexico, a cornerstone ceremony was held to mark the start of construction of the new Planeta recycling plant in the municipality of Cunduacán in the State of Tabasco. The project is the result of a joint venture between
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Herbold Meckesheim GmbH obtained a new major order in December: it will supply a large-scale plant for plastic recycling to Fantastic Plastic. Fantastic Plastic is considered to be the producer of the highest quality PET flakes in Russia. The first production line of the recyclate manufacturer was also supplied by the
Read moreFollowing 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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