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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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Kirin Beverage Company Limited has renewed Kirin Nama-tea, including the contents, container and package design, and will launch the renewed product nationwide on Tuesday 26 April. The container and package design of Kirin Namacha Houjisencha will also be renewed. In addition, for the 555ml Kirin Nama-ocha, which is exclusively sold in
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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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FlexBlow, the manufacturer of flexible stretch blow moulding machines, introduces a new product line that expands companies’ range of packaging solutions from two-stage to single-stage SBM market segment. With the launch of Special Preforms, FlexBlow upscaled its’ complete solutions to the next level – from choosing the material, additives and developing custom
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Molson Coors Beverage Company has been providing consumers worldwide with fine and tasty beers for 200 years now. To further strengthen its presence on the Bulgarian market, the group decided to give a modern twist to its local beer brands by revamping their PET packaging and partnered with Competek for the
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Berry M&H has launched a 250ml PET bottle for syrups to meet growing consumer demand for the creation of flavoured drinks in the home. The new bottle provides a convenient retail size for a wide variety of syrups, fruit mixes, sauces, frappes, liqueurs, and smoothies, offering easy storage along with safe
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Second Life, Otto Hofstetter AG’s mould brokerage service, offers mechanically sound moulds that are no longer used by their owners to other producers who can use them. Before going to its new owners, the mould is completely overhauled at the factory in Uznach and comes with a one-year guarantee. Otto Hofstetter’s
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With preferential heating KHS provides an energy-efficient method for producing oval PET bottles with an optimised weight. Not only the food industry but also consumer goods manufacturers such as Henkel are opting for this technology. It also enables complex containers to be economically produced in house, with no need for external
Read moreFollowing the numerous commitments of the industry players to increase uptake of recycled plastics, including the new mandatory target of 25% in PET bottles by 2025, the European PET Bottle Platform (EPBP) and RecyClass decided to join efforts to further support the value chain actors in making the right design decisions
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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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Nutroma’s goal for the future? That all the bottles are made of 100% rPET. This is how they strive for circular packaging. In other words: products that are recycled again and again so that they can make new ones. Nutroma is not quite there yet, but they’re working on it. And
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