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Today, Tuesday 5 December, my route takes me to the Pepsi bottler Dubai Refreshment in the Dubai Investment Park 2 industrial estate, around 30 km from my flat in Business Bay. Motivated, I drive our UAE Editourmobil towards the motorway, which is only a few minutes away from my home. So
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It’s Saturday. Motivated by the fact that the Middle East Roadshow is finally getting underway, I make my way to Vienna Airport, from where I’m heading to Dubai with a stopover in Istanbul. Despite Vienna’s excellent public transport infrastructure, I decide to take an Uber, as it has been snowing so
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After our successful Drinktec tour, the PETplanet team is going to the Middle East in the last quarter of 2023! In a spectacular project taking us well into 2024, we will be travelling in a wide variety of ways to various countries and regions of the Middle East with different mobile
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Business is booming for waste sorting systems Around 160 km to the northeast of Barcelona is the small Catalonian town of Roses. Here in 2004, Norwegian recycling equipment provider Tomra installed a local branch when it took over the former local distributor. This was in response to a recycling situation that was
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Increased PET bottle production with technology from Neutraubling In Neureut, a district of Karlsruhe in Baden-Wuerttemberg in the south of Germany, the local site of Coca-Cola Europacific Partners Deutschland – CCEP for short – is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Produced here are the 1.25 l Coca-Cola PET single-use bottles and other drinks
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Spanish plant manufacturer Side S.A. is a good example of lockdowns and pandemics not having to be the worst-case scenario for a company. Through pre-emptive action and close collaboration with customers, the company not only managed in 2021 to generate the best sales in its company history, but at the same
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We reach the region around Volvic on Thursday, one day before our appointment with the world-renowned water bottler located there. Our chosen campsite is just ten minutes away from the Volvic factory. The search for a decent coffee proves challenging but in the village itself, around a kilometre and a half
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It is Monday morning and we have just prepared the Editourmobil for our departure. The previous evenings were surprisingly quiet, although some of the younger campers were up late into the night and a bit noisy. It is a good thing we had earplugs on Sunday. Now is the time to
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It is shortly before five o’clock on Saturday morning. I, Kay Barton, am sitting in a taxi in Vienna’s third district, waiting outside the house of my colleague Heike Fischers for us to catch an early flight to Barcelona for a tour of Spain and France. With barely four hours sleep,
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Tethered caps require complex cutting geometries As part of the Brückner Group’s Pre-K press conference in Freilassing, Bavaria, we met Beat Rupp, CEO of Packsys Global. Their machines are essential when it comes to implementing the EU Directive on tethered caps. Along with complete systems for extruded tubes and laminate tubes,
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