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Austrian Erema Engineering Recycling Maschinen und Anlagen Ges.m.b.H announced that the demand for its PET recycling technologies is growing worldwide across the entire PET segment. “Despite declining sales of beverages due to the Corona pandemic and a tense situation in the recycling industry accounted for by the fall in the price
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The Krones virtual showroom serves as a communication platform to secure and build customer relationships even in times of travel restrictions and cancelled trade events. Especially during the Covid-19 pandemic, new forms of communication have become increasingly important, with virtual interaction replacing many face-to-face meetings. This is true not only for
Read moreNestlé Waters North America (NWNA) has invested in Timeplast, a Florida-based startup that is researching solutions for one of the critical aspects of the global plastic waste challenge – plastic that isn’t properly recycled and ends up in landfills, oceans and waterways. Timeplast is exploring a new technology that may help to minimise the
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Amcor has developed a new hot-fill PET bottle for Colombia’s Nutrea/Frudelca’s breakthrough Frupro protein juice. The new beverage is the latest in a growing category that blends the benefits of natural juice with protein to appeal to health-conscious consumers. Nutrea/Frudelca is a joint venture between Frudelca, a leading juice supplier, and Nutrea,
Read moreThe foundation of Engel Used Machinery s.r.o. sees injection moulding machine manufacturer and systems solutions provider Engel, headquartered in Schwertberg, Austria, extend its portfolio to include pre-owned machines. Besides injection moulding machines, the new company also buys back used robots from the Engel series, refurbishes the products and puts them back
Read moreIn a circular economy, the aim is to avoid waste, reuse products and recover resources. “Companies that can provide solutions for the transformation to a circular economy will have a crucial competitive advantage,” said Dr Martin Brudermüller, Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors and Chief Technology Officer of BASF, speaking
Read moreHusky Injection Molding Systems, a leading technology provider to the plastics processing community, is launching “Experience Husky” – a two-day interactive, digital experience where attendees will have the opportunity to explore an exciting agenda full of insight, collaboration and learning highlighting the various markets that Husky serves. Taking place from January
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In the 2000’s Amut was handling over to Coca-Cola Amatil in New South Wales, Australia the first plant in the world for the recycling of PET post-consume bottles, aimed to produce rPET food grade: this is when the application of the so-called rPET “Bottle to Bottle” was developed. In the last
Read moreImproved recycling, recovery and conversion into post-consumer resin (PCR) are the leading challenges for the rigid and flexible plastic packaging industry through the 2020s a new Smithers report finds. Analysing the current state-of-the-art and future routes to market, Smithers’ latest study – Ten-Year Forecast of Disruptive Technologies for Recycled Plastic Packaging
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New technology developed at the research institution VTT, Espoo, Finland, enables the use of pectin-containing agricultural waste, such as citrus peel and sugar beet pulp, as raw material for bio-based PEF-plastics for replacing fossil-based PET. The carbon footprint of plastic bottles can be lowered by 50% when replacing their raw material
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If inhouse waste and heavily contaminated post-consumer waste are added to the production process, foreign particles of various sizes and quantities are introduced into the melt flow. These have to be filtered out efficiently to ensure a consistent and high quality of the end product. At the same time, however, melt
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