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Hall 3 booth B-3201: Mold-Masters is a global supplier of hot runners, controllers, auxiliary injection and co-injection systems. Mold-Master design, manufacture, distribute, sell and service highly engineered and customised plastic processing equipment that caters to every market. Mold-Masters is credited for patenting the first commercially viable hot runner system in 1965.
Read moreAustria’s market leader in the mineral water market, Vöslauer Mineralwasser GmbH, is concretising its plans to relaunch the first and so far only PET returnable container in Austria. “In Austria, PET reusable containers were common until the 1990s, but they disappeared from the shelves completely due to a lack of demand.
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In October last year, PepsiCo announced that it would be the first beverage company in Germany to exclusively use 100 per cent rPET in all of its carbonated beverage bottles by the end of 2021. In April, the entire Lipton Ice Tea range was converted to rPET. Now the company is
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The Alpla Group, the global packaging solutions and recycling specialist, is taking over Plastisax S.L. The Spanish company produces plastic bottles for the cosmetics, home and personal care segments. The takeover will enable an increased use of recycled material in production operations and a strengthening of the circular economy in the
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If there were a synonym for PET stretch blow moulds it could be Röders. Röders, together with Corpoplast, from its very beginning made PET stretch blow moulding suitable for large-scale production almost 50 years ago. Later Röders supported well-established machine producers like Krones and Sipa with their development of modern mould
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Evian has launched a new rPET prototype bottle using technology from clean technology company Loop Industries. As the demand for more sustainable packaging solutions continues to grow, Loop Industries states to offer a technology that allows no and low value PET plastics that would otherwise go to waste to be recycled
Read moreAfter Coca-Cola switched the non-returnable PET bottles of its ViO, Fuze Tea and Powerade brands in Germany to recycled material in the spring, the core brands Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola Zero, Coke light, Fanta, Sprite and mezzo mix are now following this example. Their “On the Go” packaging (up to and including 0.5
Read moreThe Plastics Industry Association announced shipments of primary plastics machinery (injection moulding and extrusion) in North America decreased for the second consecutive quarter according to the statistics compiled and reported by the association’s Committee on Equipment Statistics (CES). The preliminary estimate of shipment value from reporting companies totaled $320.9 million in
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Despite attractive environmental credentials, returnable PET containers remain a niche product. Krones and Alpla are cooperating on a research project aimed at better realizing this packaging type’s potential. The result is a returnable PET container specially designed for chilled juices and dairy products. Objective tests provide information about microbiological safety. In
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Britvic’s brands Robinsons, Lipton Ice Tea and drench 500ml bottles are moving to 100% rPET. The 500ml on-the-go bottles are the first to use recycled plastic from a new rPET manufacturing facility in North Yorkshire, UK. The facility, built by Esterform Packaging Limited following Britvic’s £5m investment support in 2019, is
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While OneCircle works towards a net-zero goal across its operation, like-minded partners continue to seek out sustainable solutions within the beverage production industry. OneCircle, as the global leader in PET Kegs, is a natural choice for those determined to maximise efficiencies and minimise waste across the beverage production and distribution process. Located
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