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With a goal of educating consumers, customers and other stakeholders on the benefits of plastic packaging, Amcor recently launched a “Choose Plastic” marketing campaign. The multi-pronged initiative, which includes a new webpage, an informative brochure and other materials, is designed to: Tell the “PET story” with truth, strength and conviction –
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KLM Royal Dutch Airlines recycles PET bottles to make tools for repairing and maintaining its aircraft. Empty bottles are collected at the end of every flight and transformed into filament, the material used in 3D printers. This process means an empty water bottle can end up as part of a 3D-printed
Read moreA new report from AMI Consulting published in July 2019 has unveiled the scale and growth prospects of African polymer demand. The report makes clear that Africa represents one of the least developed but highest potential markets for polymers in the world today. Fundamental megatrends such as population growth, a burgeoning
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Société Générale des Techniques (SGT) inaugurated its new Chalon-Sur-Saône site . The specific feature of this factory is its integrated “SGR” plastics recycling line and its PET preform manufacturing unit. In opening the new SGT/SGR site, Frédéric Mignot, the Group’s Chairman, confirmed the Group’s commitment to sustainable development: “We are aware
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The environmental organisation One Earth – One Ocean e.V. (OEOO) together with the Schwarz Group (Lidl, Kaufland) and PT Wasteforchange Alam Indonesia (W4C), a local specialist for waste and recycling management in Java/Indonesia, is launching a joint river cleaning project in the Indonesian megacity Bekasi east of Jakarta in spring 2020.
Read moreCoca-Cola Amatil has been selected as a finalist in the 2019 Waste Management and Resource Recovery Awards for producing Australia’s first carbonated soft drink bottles made from 100 per cent recycled plastic. The Awards are organised and hosted by the Waste Management and Resource Recovery Association of Australia (WMRR) and Inside
Read moreThe size of the U.S. plastics industry expanded in 2018, accounting for 993,000 jobs and $451.3 billion worth of shipments. In the same year, it maintained a trade surplus of $500 million—an increasingly rare feat among manufacturing sectors—as consumption of plastics products continued to grow in the U.S. Each of these
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The first PET bottle made of 100% rPET left the plant in Bad Vöslau, Austria in October 2018. With the launch of the 0.5l bottle made of 100 % rPET the Austrian mineral water producers set new standards not only in Austria but also in Germany where all formats of the
Read moreFrom 12th- 14th December 2019, Delhi will host India’s biggest exposition for dairy, liquid food and beverage industry, drink technology India. It is the single-most platform that assembles and optimally represents the liquid food, beverage and dairy industry. North India is home to the largest dairy sector and the booming brewery
Read moreAlpek, S.A.B. de C.V. , one of the largest petrochemical companies in the Americas, announced that one of its subsidiaries has signed an agreement with Lotte Chemical Corporation to acquire a 100% stake in Lotte Chemical UK Limited, which owns and operatesa 350,000 ton per year polyethylene terephthalate (“PET”) facility in
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NDMAC Systems, based in Brittany, France, has joined the OneCircle initiative to support the recycling of KeyKegs – the first in France. NDMAC, which started life as a tech start-up developing connected beer taps for the trade which supply unrivalled data and information on consumption habits, beer preferences and variety. This
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