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Novembal, an independently managed business unit of the Sidel Group, producing plastic caps and closures for beverage manufacturers, presents the Novaqua 38A mm cap. The solution furthers the company’s contribution to the aseptic PET value chain and commitment to continuous quality improvement. Lorenzo van Haelst, Managing Director of Novembal, presented Novembal’s
Read moreNestlé announced the inauguration of a new Research & Development center (R&D) in Beijing and a System Technology hub in Shenzhen. The new R&D center is intended to enable Nestlé to accelerate trend-based innovation in China to meet fast-changing consumer demand. The systems hub will strengthen collaboration with Chinese partners and
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Switzerland-based Corvaglia group announced the completion of their first manufacturing facility in the United States, Newnan, Georgia. In celebration of this milestone, a ribbon cutting ceremony is planned for April 5th. The international company manufactures 100% recyclable plastic caps and closures for the food and beverage industry worldwide. The new U.S.
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Austrian Starlinger recycling technology will deliver PET recycling lines with a total installed capacity of 5.4 tons/hour for CarbonLite’s new site in Pennsylvania at the end of the year. CarbonLite is a major producer of food-grade rPET who already operates Starlinger recycling lines at its locations in Riverside and Dallas. CarbonLite
Read moreNew ways to recycle plastics, technologies to improve recycling processes and new applications for recycled plastics are among the many innovations on show at the Plastics Recycling Show Europe 2019, taking place at the RAI Amsterdam on 10 and 11 April 2019. The annual exhibition and conference which first opened its
Read moreIn mid-March 2019, the injection moulding machine manufacturer Engel Austria was one of the first plastic machine manufacturers to sign the New Plastics Economy Global Commitment of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. The aim of the initiative is to create a circular economy. In cooperation with more than 350 other companies, universities
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Alpla, Inc., a global manufacturer of rigid plastic packaging for a wide range of consumer products, announced the appointment of Dr Andreas Reger as its General Manager, responsible for all activity at the US unit of seventeen manufacturing operations. Andreas Reger comes to Alpla with 27 years of business unit leadership
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PTI, a global leader in plastic packaging development, has named Sumit Mukherjee, chief technology officer (CTO). Mukherjee has been with PTI for the past 25 years, including positions as vice president, advanced engineering services and director, computer aided engineering and simulation. In his new capacity as CTO, Mukherjee will be leading
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Dr Johannes-Thomas Grobe is to be the new head of Sales and Service at KHS GmbH. This has now been confirmed by the company’s supervisory board. The 53-year-old shall be moving from Dürr Systems AG, a machine and systems manufacturer for the automobile industry, to the Dortmund systems supplier. Dr Grobe
Read moreDS Smith announced it has reached agreement to sell its Plastics division to Olympus Partners for an enterprise value of $585 million, (approximately €519 million). The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions including regulatory approvals, with completion expected to take place in the second half of this calendar year. The
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M&H Plastics has developed a technique that allows a brand to add a series of ridges inside the bottle which creates a straight line or spiral effect inside the mould of the bottles. Bottles treated to the spiral effect have the choice of creating the ridges vertical or allow the ridges
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