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Amcor announced it has joined the U.S. Plastics Pact, a collaborative, solutions-driven initiative to create a path forward to a circular economy for plastics in the United States by 2025. The U.S. Plastics Pact is focused on four ambitious goals intended to drive significant systems change by unifying diverse cross-sector approaches,
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Together with traditional Martens Brewery in Belgium the turnkey supplier KHS has made the portfolio for a German food store chain more sustainable. Karlskrone beer is now to be sold as a film-free KHS Nature MultiPack of six – in redesigned 0.5-liter PET bottles made entirely of recyclate. As part of
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To meet growing demand in the fruit juice market, Berry M&H has introduced a new family range of square round PET bottles. Developed for a wide variety of juice and other non-alcoholic drinks, the SQROUND bottles are available in five sizes – 250ml, 300ml, 500ml, 750ml and 1 litre – and as
Read moreAfter thoughtful consultation with the PMMI Board of Directors, PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, has made the difficult decision to cancel its in-person Pack Expo International and Healthcare Packaging Expo in Chicago this year. The PMMI Board determined that due to the evolving Covid-19 pandemic and the current
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Berry Bramlage is launching a range of premium jars that enable cosmetic and beauty products to create a strong on-shelf presence and brand image while meeting consumer demands for more sustainable packaging. The new Infinity Quartz range can be specified in a choice of materials (including post-consumer recycled (PCR) plastic), finishes
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A new edition of All4Pack Emballage Paris will take place from 23 to 26 November 2020. This will bean opportunity to reveal how the sectors packaging and intralogistics ecosystem have displayed their resilience through the crisis and to discover the latest sustainable innovations and solutions from more than 1,000 exhibitors and
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On 1st July, the injection moulding machine manufacturer and systems solutions provider Engel opened a new sales and service office with its own training centre in Belgium. The new office is located in Oostakker near Ghent, one of the most important industrial centres in Belgium. It is part of Engel Benelux
Read morePoliticians and consumers have long been demanding environmentally friendly packaging solutions to reduce the amount of plastic waste. Companies that have been awarded the RAL Quality Mark for Recyclable PET Beverage Packaging support this goal by using recycled PET material in the production of new PET beverage packaging and by striving
Read moreRetal Baltic announced the official opening of its new premises. The new space is dedicated to an updated central group laboratory to maintain the company’s international-standard quality assurance and testing, as well as expanding working and auxiliary spaces for administration and production employees. It sees the previous 700sqm site now doubled to 1,400sqm,
Read moreCoca-Cola European Partners (CCEP), the world’s largest independent Coca-Cola bottler, has taken a further step on its journey towards 100% rPET for its plastic bottles by funding CuRe Technology – a recycling start-up which seeks to provide a new lease of life for difficult to recycle plastic polyester waste. The funding
Read moreIn cooperation with the exhibitor advisory board for Fakuma 2020, trade fair promoters P. E. Schall GmbH & Co. KG have decided to postpone the 27th Fakuma international trade fair for plastics processing to 2021. The next Fakuma trade show will take place from the 12th to the 16th of October,
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