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The Editourmobil roadshow rolls on from Delhi to Mumbai via Rajasthan, the hottest spot in the whole of India. We are sweating in 50-degree Celsius heat in the shade! It is unusually hot even for this desert area; which brings us nicely onto the subject of water in India! In recent
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Natural mineral water brand Valvert in Belgium launches its new bottle made entirely from recycled PET, a first for Nestlé in Europe. This step is intended to support Nestlé’s commitment to circular economy and to increase the rPET content in its water bottles to 35% globally by 2025. Valvert claims to
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Sidel states that its new solution Sidel X-Lite Still is, with 6.5g of weight and a height of 195 mm, the lightest 500 ml PET bottle in the world for non-pressurised still water. This bottle is featuring a Novembal Novaqua RightCAP26 closure. Thanks to its extremely light industrial bottle design, it
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Alpla and PTT Global Chemical (GC) will collaborate on a feasibility study for the construction of a recycling plant in Thailand. The companies announced the plan at the “Circular Living Symposium 2019 – Upcycling Our Planet” in Bangkok at the end of June. Alpla develops and produces plastic packaging solutions worldwide
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Engel Austria has launched its new “Engel Technology Centre. Innovation at heart” at its headquarters in Schwertberg, Austria, featuring 1,700 m² of machine floor space . “We have created our own pilot plant for vertical integration in injection moulding and can thus support our customers even more comprehensively on their way
Read moreKraussMaffei and Netstal are combining their expertise in injection moulding machinery under the new KraussMaffei umbrella brand. With the common portfolio, the company wants to present itself even more effectively, first and foremost in the medical technology and packaging industries. The familiar machine series (PX, CX, GX, MX from KraussMaffei and
Read moreBerry Global Group, Inc. announced the completion of its acquisition of RPC Group Plc for a purchase price of approximately $6.5 billion, which includes approximately $4.3 billion of cash paid for the equity interest in RPC and $2.2 of net debt and estimated transaction related costs, subject to closing adjustments. The
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We arrive almost on time, and have to wait for Aditya from Ruptex Mineral who is coming back from his factory in Bhiwadi just for our visit, around a two and a half hour drive from New Delhi. It turns out to be a very interesting and honest discussion. Aditya talks
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From 12 to 14 November 2019, Nuremberg will once again be the hub for the international beverage industry, when the sector gathers for this year’s capital goods fair for beverage production and marketing. The products and solutions on display by the around 1,100 exhibitors, 53 percent of which are from outside
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An innovation from Avery Dennison that is intended to enable closed-loop PET recycling has won this year’s FINAT Recycling and Sustainability award. The CleanFlake portfolio is claimed to enable production of high quality recycled PET (rPET) from post-consumer bottles while maintaining all-important visual impact and food contact approval. The portfolio is
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Ford has found a way of reusing millions of PET bottles. Each EcoSport SUV that the company produces is fitted with carpets made using 470 single-use plastic drink bottles. And since Ford launched the EcoSport globally in 2012, it has provided a new lease of life for more than 650 million
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