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The manufacturer of specialised digital printing equipment Primera Technology has announced the launch of its new AP-Code Lot & Date Coder, suitable to print onto glass, metals, plastics and laminated labels. The company states that digital printing is a fast-rising area of product development, with major international packaging brands. AP-Code is designed
Read moreAvantium N.V., a leading technology provider in renewable chemistry, has been granted Critical Guidance Recognition from the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR). The APR Critical Guidance Protocol is one of the most universally accepted measures for assessing recyclability in plastic packaging design. Avantium earned the recognition for the use of PEF,
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The Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) has granted Responsible Innovation Recognition to Magnomer Inc. for its Magmark SS magnetisable coatings applied to PET-G shrink films for labelling of PET containers. The APR recognition, based on a high-volume commercial scale recyclability test for shrink sleeves, demonstrates that Magnomer’s novel magnetisable coatings technology is expected
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When Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) took the decision to introduce tethered caps for its PET bottles, Sidel supported CCEP with the transition. Required to implement the changes by July 2024 in line with single-use plastic (SUP) law, Coca-Cola Europacific Partners also identified the opportunity to move to a more sustainable package,
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As part of a European strategic partnership between Danone and Krones, Danone ordered five ErgoBloc L wet-end blocks in 2020, which will be now installed in various plants in France and Spain by the end of 2023. The arrival of the ErgoBloc technology is claimed to be a turning point for
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Newly released data shows that several major South African brands are meeting targets when it comes to collecting and recycling the plastic packaging in which their products are sold, and keeping it out of the environment. The audited data was released on June 8 by the country’s longest-standing producer responsibility organisation
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Recycled PET is and will be an increasingly sought-after material. Due to EU directives and the obligation of numerous packaging manufacturers to use a high proportion of rPET in their products, but with less demand at the moment, the rPET market is becoming increasingly stressed. Numerous circular economy initiatives, recycling-friendly product
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Coca-Cola Europacific Partners Germany (CCEP DE) is planning to re-commission a currently unused returnable PET line at its German Bad Neuenahr site next year for the bottling of carbonated soft drinks such as Coca-Cola, Fanta and Sprite and the sugar-free variants. To this end, the company is investing about 15 million
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Petainer, who claim to “offer a wide range of lightweight, sustainable PET packaging solutions”, has been in business for over 35 years, designing and manufacturing “high-quality, cost-efficient products with circularity at their core”. It has manufacturing sites across the world, serving markets in Europe, the Americas and Asia. In Europe, it
Read morePTTGC America (GCA) has chosen a site at the Midwest Mega Commerce Center in Fayette County for a new mechanical recycling facility. The reclaimer complex will turn used plastic beverage bottles into PET pellets, which can then be made into new beverage bottle and other products. GCA has reached an option
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Peter Harding, CEO of Suntory Beverage & Food Europe, has been elected as the new President of Unesda Soft Drinks Europe, representing the non-alcoholic drinks industry in Europe. He takes up his two-year mandate from 1 July 2023, taking over the presidency from Ian Ellington of PepsiCo Europe. Commenting on his
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