Repetco receives the Retina ECO award to the SME in innovation and sustainability for recycling of multilayer PET plastic

Repetco was awarded with the prize ‘SME for innovation and sustainability’, in the second edition of the Retina ECO Awards, which are in collaboration with Capgemini. This award has recognised the technology developed by the company for a problem that, until now, remained unsolved: the recycling of multilayer PET plastic, very

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Faster, higher, stronger

PETplanet Insider talked with Exhibition Director Petra Westphal for her assessment of this special trade fair year and specifically of Drinktec 2022. Does the beverage and liquid food industry also have Olympic aspirations? Manufacturers of beverages and liquid food and machine manufacturers have long since recognised the potential. Digitalisation and digital

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Specialised in beverage filling and packaging

KHS Group Hall B4 – Booth 336 The KHS Group, an international manufacturer of filling and packaging equipment focusing on the beverage and liquid food sectors will highlight two PET relevant technologies. Specialising in the single-serve water segment, the InnoPET TriBlock Aqua M combines three modules into one unit. The further

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Labelling machinery

Newtec Labelling Hall C6 – Booth 231 Newtec Labelling will exhibit a full range of labelling machines: Adhesive Cold Glue, Hot Melt and Rollfed. The adhesive labelling machine has the adhesive group, intentionally oversize, to guarantee a maximum precision during the application of the labels on the bottle and it will

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Compact, efficient and environmentally sustainable solutions

SMI Group Hall A6 – Booth 403 The topics of energy efficiency and environmental sustainability play a key role in the investment choices of companies that have increasingly been opting for compact and efficient systems and machines, capable of ensuring an environmentally sustainable and high-quality production. SMI will present in world

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Gneuss MRS extrusion technology nominated for Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2022

Gneuss, a family-owned company based in Bad Oeynhausen, Germany, has been shortlisted for the Plastics Recycling Awards 2022 in the category of Recycling Machinery Innovation with its unique MRSjump extrusion technology. The MRSjump is a new extruder which uses the operating principle of the Gneuss MRS technology however with a vastly

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Team work in the plastics value chain

New extended producer responsibility (EPR) legislation is a benefit, one of Africa’s largest PET recyclers explains RTo reduce the amount of packaging waste sent to landfill and to accelerate the circular economy, South Africa has implemented EPR regulations. One of the biggest recyclers of PET bottles on the African continent, Extrupet,

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