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Thanks to a solution developed by Alpla, Austria’s leading company in the mineral water market, Vöslauer, is already complying with the EU requirement from 2024 that all drinks caps remain tethered to the bottle after opening. Alpla developed no less than four versions of the tethered cap. Alpla presented its customers
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Producer of specialised preform and blow moulds Petka holds its own design department to create customised bottle designs on demand. The processes offered by their design department and highly qualified designers range from a first evaluation to a prototype before the production of the final product starts. The bottle designs are
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And&Or, a leader in the manufacture and marketing of handle applicator machines for PET and PE bottles, provides solutions for the automatic insertion of various types of handles. They are adaptable for low, medium or high-speed lines, as well as for multiple types of operation, including rotary, interval linear or continuous
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An increasing number of food companies are embracing PET bottles with built-in handles, as they provide an easy dispensing solution. Pouring oil from a container with handles is a different experience than pouring it from a standard bottle without them. Not only do handles provide a more comfortable and precise, hassle-free
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Established in 2007, Durrat Al Khaleej is one of the leading bottled water producers in Iraq. Inspired to improve production to ensure they meet stringent standards, Durrat Al Khaleej has a laboratory that systematically checks the water produced, guaranteeing high levels of quality and safety throughout the supply chain, from raw
Read moreThe German Federal Ministry for the Environment and the Federal Environment Agency UBA are planning a new “Life Cycle Assessment of Optimisation Potentials of Beverage Packaging”. The study on the life cycle assessment of beverage packaging is expected to be published in the first half of 2023. The federal government writes
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After pandemic-related turbulence, the US PET industry is slowly recovering As President & CEO of the Plastics Industry Association, Tony Radoszewski experienced first-hand the light and dark sides that the pandemic had in store for the US plastics industry. In our interview, he reports on the advantages that the material was
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Interview with Auri Marçon, president of the PET industry association Abipet During the height of the Corona pandemic in 2020, companies in the PET value chain were also among those that stopped their operations as a precautionary measure – for a short time. It was not only the continuing high demand
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Wisecap announces the new plastic closure Asterix. The closure has been designed for the GME30.40 neck finish, a new voluntary standard currently being finalised within the European context. GME30.40 neck finish belongs to the 26/22 neck finishes family and is intended to deliver a low weight and high-performance solution for various
Read moreAs can be seen from the 2020 annual report of the PET Recycling Schweiz association, 47,619t of PET bottles were collected by the system of the Swiss association. This corresponds to 769t or 1.6% less than in the previous year. The collection volume of the traders, bottlers and importers obliged to
Read moreFollowing on from successful webinars on Caps and Preforms, Sacmi, a leader in compression blow forming (CBF) solutions, announced the first international webinar on the “Green Challenge for Sustainability in Plastic Container Manufacturing.” The event will be live-streamed at 16:00 (CEST) on 27 July with a repeat on the 28th at
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