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Evergreen, one of North America’s three largest producers of food grade rPET, has announced that it will be installing artificial intelligence-enabled bottle sorting robotics at its Albany, New York plastics recycling and rPET manufacturing facility. When the installation is completed in mid 2022, Evergreen will have deployed 15 high-speed, highly accurate
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Kirin Beverage Company Limited has renewed Kirin Nama-tea, including the contents, container and package design, and will launch the renewed product nationwide on Tuesday 26 April. The container and package design of Kirin Namacha Houjisencha will also be renewed. In addition, for the 555ml Kirin Nama-ocha, which is exclusively sold in
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Molson Coors Beverage Company has been providing consumers worldwide with fine and tasty beers for 200 years now. To further strengthen its presence on the Bulgarian market, the group decided to give a modern twist to its local beer brands by revamping their PET packaging and partnered with Competek for the
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Read moreKlöckner Pentaplast, a global leader in recycled content products and high-barrier protective packaging, has announced its intention to expand its post-consumer recycled content (PCR) PET capacity in North America with a significant investment to further grow its sustainable innovation offering in consumer health, pharmaceutical, and food packaging markets. The company states
Read moreThe Mexican conglomerate Alfa SAB de CV, whose portfolio includes the subsidiaries Alpek, Sigma, Axtel and Newpek, published the results of Alpek’s performance during the fourth quarter of 2021 on 16 February. In the report, Alfa looks back on an overall successful year to which Alpek (plastic materials, chemicals production with
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Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL), the world’s largest producer of recycled PET for beverage bottles, completed a deal for an 85% equity stake in Czech Republic-based PET plastic recycler, UCY Polymers CZ s.r.o. (UCY), boosting the country and Europe’s plastic collection and recycling ambitions. As a result of the investment,
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In line with incoming packaging tax regulation in the UK to be introduced in April 2022, Paccor’s production team in Mansfield, UK, are now offering caps with a minimum 30% rHDPE (recycled high density polyethylene). This created a challenge due to the different nature of PCR material compared to virgin polymer
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BariQ for Techno and Advanced Industries celebrates the signing for constructing a new PET bottle-to-bottle recycling plant that will feature the latest plastic sorting systems from Tomra Recycling in Giza Governorate, Egypt. The Egypt-based company is the leading rPET producer in the MENA region. In its quest to meet the increasing
Read moreEvergreen, a plastics recycling and manufacturing company owned by The Sterling Group, is heading into 2022 as one of North America’s three largest producers of food grade rPET thanks to millions invested in strategic acquisitions and upgrades. From a single location in January 2021, Evergreen has grown to four locations across
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2021 saw BB Engineering GmbH. Remscheid, Germany, deliver a melt filter for recycling PET flakes to polyester manufacturer Indorama Polyester Industries Thailand. Indorama will be using the type NSF38 filter in its recently assembled recycling system in order to produce rPET granulate from flake PET bottle waste. The NSF38 filter enables
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