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R&D/Leverage survived the Covid-19 pandemic and even prospered, with a record surge in sales of its injection stretch blow moulding tooling and no Covid-related shutdown of its factory or offices. It had the foresight to buy an adjacent factory unit when it came available, in 2020, in order to be prepared
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The Road Show has made its first visit to Austria! On 20 April, Austria’s leading mineral water producer Vöslauer, a subsidiary of the Ottakringer brewery, held a press conference on the reintroduction of the returnable PET bottle. Interestingly, these reusable bottles were first around thirteen years ago, before vanishing from the
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Just under two hours south-west of Turin in Italy, at the foot of the Maritime Alps and close to the French border in the province of Cuneo, alpine water finds its way into PET bottles. Sant’ Anna, as the water bottler is called, is a family business ‘with a heart and
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Each time you embark on an Editour, you end up in countries, or at least part of them, where you never thought you would be when the tour was originally planned. The European Road Show has been running successfully since autumn 2021 and at the end of November, we received a
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Extrusion blow moulding machines from the German capital – Interview with Bekum Maschinenfabriken GmbH Bekum Maschinenfabriken GmbH has its headquarters on an industrial estate in the south of Berlin’s Tempelhof-Schöneberg district. It is an original Berlin company and after more than 60 years of its existence, the world of extrusion blow
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In the EU, tethered caps will be mandatory from 2024 and worldwide entirely thread geometries like 26/22 are expanding their market share. While the remainder of the preform can retain its original size, in many moulds the neck rings will need to be replaced with new geometries. As an independent mould
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The East Midlands of England has something of a cluster of businesses involved with packaging. We visited Measom Freer near Leicester just a few days before meeting Paccor at its site near Mansfield, near Nottingham, and its near-neighbour, R&D/Leverage, who we have known and encountered over many years and in many
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The UK has a history of bright, innovative startups that can change the landscape and evolve into commercial behemoths, from Lever Brothers – which merged with The Netherlands’ Margarine Unie and became Unilever – through Cadbury’s, the chocolate manufacturer; earthmoving equipment company JCB; and Sinclair Computers, which brought home computing to
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Mark Smith, Senior Vice-President at Universal Closures, took time out from a very busy and demanding schedule to visit the PETplanet Insider representative office in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, early in February. It was a pleasure to see him again; his news and views are always of interest and often revelatory. Universal
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While the North of England and pretty much all of Scotland and Northern Ireland were ravaged by Storm Arwen – some areas still hadn’t got power back, nearly two weeks later – the weather for my trip to Newport Pagnell in Buckinghamshire, 80 km NW of London, was changeable but reasonably
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At last – the Editourmobil is on the road again! The second stage of our two-part “Let Your Inspiration Flow” Tour has now begun. Our Team is exploring Europe’s technology hubs and spokes to discover and report on all the news and changes that the industry has experienced over the past
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