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On 9th November the annual World Beverage Innovation Awards took place at BrauBeviale in Germany as part of the 14th Beverage Awards. PET Engineering received during the ceremony its second World Beverage Innovation Award in the category “Best Bottle in PET” for Lux, the new PET premium bottle for still and
Read moreThe Germany-based investment company Aurelius Equity Opportunities SE & Co. KGaA is selling its Evolve Polymers subsidiary based in Hemswell, UK, to Plastipak Packaging, Inc. Evolve Polymers is a recycler of PET bottles. Operating out of Plymouth, USA, the Plastipak Group is a leading global producer of packaging, manufacturing products out
Read moreThe 2016 edition of the trade show All4Pack Paris, global marketplace for Packaging, Processing, Printing & Handling, has just closed. The show with its 1,500 exhibitors has been attended by 87,815 professionals from 100 countries mainly from the EMEA zone. As both a laboratory and an observatory for supply and demand
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Indian Bangalore-based rigid packaging firm, Manjushree Technopack Ltd, announced the acquisition of Varahi Limited. The strategic move which is a first for India’s largest PET and preform manufacturer is intended to widen its lead as the largest supplier of rigid plastic packaging products in India. With this acquisition, Manjushree now has
Read moreThe Coca-Cola Company, together with its three main bottling groups in China – Coca-Cola Bottling Investments Group China (“BIG”), COFCO Coca-Cola Beverages Limited (a subsidiary of COFCO Corporation, “COFCO”) and Swire Beverages Holdings Limited (“Swire”) – commemorated the completion of a definitive agreement to refranchise all existing Company-owned bottling operations in
Read morePetainer has launched a range of new rental agreements for filling and blowing lines to help customers take full advantage of the petainerKeg system. In a first for the one-way keg market, the agreements have been designed to give breweries, wineries, cider producers and other beverage manufacturers access to new equipment
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Mpact Recycling has called upon consumers to take greater care when disposing of their refuse. “We urge consumers to separate recyclable plastic bottles and other recyclable items at home instead of relying on recyclers to do so at landfill. By that time the plastic is often too contaminated with items like
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This year And & Or celebrated 30 years’ experience providing automated solutions for the plastic bottle industry (PET and HDPE). Participating for the 3rd consecutive time in the K Fair in Düsseldorf, Germany, the company reported on a highly successful commercial outcome, with visitors to their stand doubling in number compared
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Amcor Rigid Plastics, leading manufacturers of rigid plastic packaging for food, beverage, spirits, home/personal care and healthcare industries, has announced the first commercial use of its unique Apextm hot-fill PET containers with metal lug closures. Leading Mexican food supplier MegaMex Foods, LLC, an Orange, Calif.-based joint venture of Hormel Foods and
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Aptar Food + Beverage, a company producing dispensing solutions for the concentrate market, has partnered with Karlovarská Korunni, a leading mineral water and syrup producer in Czech Republic to launch a new vitamin syrup using the Duo dispensing closure. Korunni’s Vitamin Syrup provides consumers with a pure pouring pleasure experience in
Read moreAvery Dennison has collaborated with partners throughout the supply chain namely Viridor and PET UK, to help Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP) reduce waste, costs, and the carbon footprint of Smartwater production in the United Kingdom. According to Joe Franses, Director of Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability at Coca-Cola European Partners, “This example
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