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Swire Coca-Cola Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Swire Pacific Limited, announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Coca-Cola subsidiaries with bottling businesses in Vietnam and Cambodia. The transactions will be Swire Coca-Cola’s first investments in South East Asia, giving Swire Coca-Cola a leading position in one of the
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Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL), a global chemical company, announced that construction of an integrated PTA-PET plant in Corpus Christi, Texas, will resume in August this year. Corpus Christi Polymers LLC (CCP), a partnership between three companies, is expected to begin production in 2025 and is intended to ensure continued
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Amcor Rigid Packaging (APR) is now offering samples of spirits bottles made of PET that meet the newly approved U.S. Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) sizes. Amcor’s new offering was developed to provide customers with the freedom and flexibility to explore new markets while gauging consumer interest. The six new ARP
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Extended in-person event after pandemic-related postponement The last ProPak in-person edition took place in 2019. Then, in 2020, due to Covid, an online edition took place. The 2021 edition was cancelled entirely and postponed to 2022. Finally, and with a new organiser in charge, Propak Asia 2022 took-off at Bitec Bangna
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Tethered caps require complex cutting geometries As part of the Brückner Group’s Pre-K press conference in Freilassing, Bavaria, we met Beat Rupp, CEO of Packsys Global. Their machines are essential when it comes to implementing the EU Directive on tethered caps. Along with complete systems for extruded tubes and laminate tubes,
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Tessemae’s, a premier organic condiment and salad dressing US-company, announces bold new packaging for its array of products. The refreshed product line featuring an updated design and eye-catching artwork is available nationwide. The design is a recyclable plastic bottle made from PET. Each product is involved in a bottle-to-bottle recycling process
Read morePepsi Bottling Ventures LLC announced a $35 million investment to install a new state-of-the-art bottling line at its production facility in Winston-Salem, N.C., USA. The line will improve efficiencies in the company’s manufacturing operations by optimising production capacity for some of the bottler’s largest growing brands, including Aquafina and Lipton Tea,
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CCL Label, a leading converter of pressure sensitive and extruded film materials for decorative, functional and information labels, has unveiled a new generation of their EcoStream labels that support the recycling of PET bottles. They are made from floating low-density polyolefin material that are claimed to separate easily from the heavier
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Miguel Torres Chile, a wine company at the forefront of taking climate action to help reduce wine’s carbon footprint and member of International Wineries for Climate Action, has become the latest brand owner to adopt Packamama’s eco-flat wine bottles. Newly launched in Sweden’s alcohol monopoly, Systembolaget, the introduction of eco-flat wine
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HPC Industries LLC and Macquarie Group’s Commodities and Global Markets group (Macquarie) have formed a joint venture to produce rPET. Under the name Circularix, the venture’s plans include building and operating five recycling facilities across the U.S. with a total annual production capacity of more than 275 million pounds of rPET resin.
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The Alpla Group is accelerating the roll-out of new plastic packaging solutions with the opening of the product development space ‘STUDIOa’ at the company headquarters in Hard, Austria. Customers can visit this one-stop shop to help complete the development process in a matter of days, from the first design draft and
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