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The mineral water supplier Vöslauer from near Vienna established the first returnable bottle plant in Austria on 20 April with support from Climate Protection Minister Gewessler and the environmental organisation Greenpeace. Taken off the shelves 13 years ago, the environmentally-friendly returnable PET bottle is now making a comeback on the Austrian
Read morePressco Technology Inc. and Somex Ltd. are pleased to announce their strategic and exclusive partnership effective March 2022. Pressco Technology, with headquarters in the USA since 1966, is well known for developing high-speed vision and sensory inspection solutions to improve process control and maximise profitability for manufacturers in the food, beverage,
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The “Pressure Safe” PET aerosol container design shall give home and personal care brands the opportunity to offer more environmentally sustainable dispensing spray packaging. The PET product-packaging solution is approved for the traditional PET recycling stream and shall serve as an alternative to traditional metal aerosol container for use with products
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In a segment where the product is water and the target group is children, the main challenge is to offer an incentive to consume fewer sweetened beverages and replace them with healthy water instead. Being in the market for some time already, the Bonafont Mascot brand of Danone Brazil was in
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Asahi Beverages announced that around 111 million soft drink bottles will now be made with 100% recycled plastic in Australia each year. The change will apply to all 450ml and 600ml bottles of soft drinks sold by Asahi Beverages including popular brands Pepsi Max, Solo, Schweppes and Sunkist. The move follows
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Garçon Wines, a multi award-winning scale-up business known for bringing eco-flat rPET wine bottles to market, is spinning off the packaging elements of the business under the new brand, Packamama. This new name – inspired by the Inca goddess Pachamama – and identity better reflect the business’ values, offerings, and future
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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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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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