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Cap processing for food-safe HDPE Gneuss celebrated 40 years of its existence with a huge ceremony at the Imperial Palace in the spa gardens of Bad Oeynhausen, Germany. For 40 years now, the Gneuss family has been working with melt filters and extruders for the plastics industry. One focus is the

PETplanet’s Editour project enters the next round Late autumn is just the right moment for the start of our Middle East Road Show, the new PETplanet Editour project for 2023-2024. This time, several editors will be visiting our readers along the PET chain in Egypt, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and

Plastic packaging dominates the grocery landscape. Flexible plastic and PET bottles lead, and account for 47% of retail packaging sales. With a 3% rise in 2022, the PET bottle headlines overall packaging volume growth. But there are substantial changes taking place as circularity and sustainability are gaining momentum. Article by Linda

As Petcore Europe makes final preparations for its Annual Conference taking place in February 2024, PETplanet Insider caught up with President, Antonello Ciotti, to talk about the PET value chain and its core priorities. PETplanet: Petcore’s Annual Conference has become a firm fixture in the PET calendar. Why do you think

Recoup members and industry representatives gathered at the Kingsgate Conference Centre in Peterborough, England, on September 28 for the latest annual Plastics Resource and Recycling Conference. It was essentially UK focused but addressed issues that are of interest in Europe more widely and across the world. Sponsors included Berry bpi recycling,

50th anniversary of the company M.Tanner AG 25   km north-east of Zurich, Switzerland, lies the city of Winterthur, where the headquarters of M.Tanner AG is located. The family business, now in its second generation, invited its employees, friends, suppliers and customers to the three-day anniversary celebration. The company produces preform handling systems

Agr’s Gawis 4D – a winning solution for Sipa Sipa S.P.A., with headquarters in Vittorio Veneto, Italy, is well known in the plastics industry for its expertise in producing a range of high-end PET preform and container moulding systems. Being one of the few companies that has experience with both preforms

The global market for PET containers is expected to grow at a CAGR of 5.3% between 2022 and 2023. According to a report by Future Marketing Insights, it will increase from US$ 73.1 billion to US$ 122.4 billion. Currently, it is estimated that more than 500 billion PET bottles are used worldwide for

Interview with Dr Karl Hagspiel, Senior Circular Economy Expert at Alpla by Heike Fischer Alpla, a plastic packaging specialist, with 23,300 employees and 190 production facilities in 46 countries worldwide, has reached a PET recycling capacity of 266,000 t in its several recycling plants worldwide. Further growth expected! PETplanet spoke to Dr

Discussing the increase in recoverability by using magnetic coatings on shrink sleeves by Gabriele Kosmehl Shrink sleeve labels have long been identified as an obstacle to PET bottle recycling. With their patented magnetisable coatings, the start-up Magnomer aims to overcome these challenges. Their Magmark coatings, when applied to shrink sleeves, are

Recycled PET is and will be an increasingly sought-after material. Due to EU directives and the obligation of numerous packaging manufacturers to use a high proportion of rPET in their products, but with less demand at the moment, the rPET market is becoming increasingly stressed. Numerous circular economy initiatives, recycling-friendly product