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by Michael Maruschke Ester Industries Limited, which is headquartered in Gurgaon (Gurugram), Haryana State, India has been manufacturing polyester films for more than 35 years. Ester is made up of three business divisions: BoPET Films, Engineering Plastics and Specialty Polymers. They have production capacities of 57,000 tonnes/year; 26,000 tonnes/year; and 47,000
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Petcore Europe Conference February 2020 Circularity and innovation – Shaping the future of PET Each year the European PET value chain meets in Brussels for the annual Petcore Europe Conference. This year the two-day conference was held in Brussels to welcome more than 300 industry delegates. Under the theme “Circularity and
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Interview with Renzo Davatz, CEO of KraussMaffei HighPerformance AG Since the summer of 2019, Netstal has been renamed KraussMaffei HighPerformance AG. We asked Renzo Davatz – almost 30 years in the company and CEO since 2016 – about the background to this. We were particularly interested in the prospects for the
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We met: Mr Rick Unterlander, General Manager PET Mr Vincent Travaglini, President & CEO We spoke with General Manager PET Mr Rick Unterlander about the past, the future and, of course, about PET. He began with an outline of the history of Stackteck, which was established in 1998 as a merger
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United Caps and LyondellBasell present three varieties of tethered caps Caps that stay attached to the bottle after it has been opened, known as tethered caps, have been presented jointly by United Caps and LyondellBasell at the K trade fair. This design requirement will be obligatory for single use beverage bottles
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by Liselotte den Ouden (Product Manager Film) and Jenny Wassenaar (Compliance & Sustainability Director), Avery Dennison There is no doubt that sustainable packaging and waste reduction have become key business priorities. The search for solutions that can boost a brand’s eco-credentials is gathering pace. Major gains are possible when brands get
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When designing preforms, a number of parameters have to be defined, like the overall shape, the neck finish and mechanical and barrier characteristics that need to be achieved. The length of the preform results from the bottle’s height (minus neck) as well as the axial stretch ratio, while the core diameter
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First of all, a look back over the past 20 years: What developments have been particularly influential to your activities in the area of design/system manufacturing for preforms? Moraldo Masi, PET Business Director Closures, Containers & PET BU Sacmi: “For many years the main driver was product light-weighting, one of the
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April, 2019, We met:Mr Devendra Surana, MDMr Palash K Chakravorty, CEOMr Arnab Basu, Technical Head It is not easy to impress seasoned PET insiders so the description of the way business is done at Magpet, Eastern India’s largest PET converter, as “highly professional” is praise indeed. 20,000 MTA of preforms and
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It is not working without: moulds The PET bottle is a product that has been optimised over the last years and is constantly evolving. Different development steps have to be led back thereby on mould technology which made it over the years possible to fulfil producers and customers inquiries. The requirements
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We met: Mr Girish Chhablani, Factory Manager HCCB First production of the 0.25 litre CSD bottle with inner coating began nearly three years ago at Hindustan Coca-Cola’s plant in Hyderabad, India. There are currently four plants on the sub-continent with two more in the pipeline. So, it is time to drop
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