The worldwide PET magazine
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
Read more
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
Read more
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
Read more
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
Read more
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
Read moreIndorama Ventures Public Company Limited would like to inform that it, through its affiliate, Indorama Netherlands B.V., is in the process of acquiring potentially all of the shares of Ngoc Nghia Industry – Service – Trading Joint Stock Company (“NN”), an UPCoM (Unlisted Public Company Market) registered entity on the Hanoi
Read more
Moldintec announced that their packaging/design team have won the 2022 WorldStar Award in the category of Beverage for “Bonafont NoLabel project”. The WorldStarAward Jury explained their decision as follows: Moldintec’s NoLabel bottle provokes emotions in people that are more effective than marketing that touts features and benefits only. NoLabel is all
Read more
A new stackable jar from Berry Global offers a valuable space saving solution on retail shelves, through e-commerce channels and in the home. At the same time, the jar provides consumer convenience, and its effective product protection, reusability and recyclability enhance its environmental profile. The new design of the 500ml Staka
Read more
The food-grade PET recycling system will be supplied to rPET flake producer Başatlı in April 2022. The recoSTAR PET 215 iV+ will be Starlinger’s first bottle-to-bottle recycling system operating in Turkey. It is equipped with one of the biggest extruder sizes that Starlinger recycling technology is currently building and produces up
Read more
PET preform moulds for side-entry systems PET preform moulds from Otto Hofstetter AG are now also available for side-entry systems. The family-owned Swiss company relies on its proprietary Cavity-Lock stack design, with its proven track record in the top-entry world, supplying all corresponding EOATs ranging from 2 to 192 cavities. In
Read more