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Georges Alard, Commercial Director AF Group, on the company’s 150th anniversary, the philosophy of looking forward and a look at developments in the PET compressors segment When AF Compressors was founded in Belgium in 1870, the patent specification for the first PET bottles was still a hundred years away. Back then,
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Manjushree Technopack Limited (MTL), India’s largest rigid plastics packaging company backed by Advent International, announced entering into a Business Transfer Agreement with Pearl Polymers Limited for acquiring the commercial operations and manufacturing facilities of their B2B vertical. This transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals. With over 40
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OneCircle, the producer of KeyKeg and UniKeg, made some major steps towards the circular economy with the production of the first batch of OnePET to be used in their kegs and increasing the recycled material content to approximately 45%. OneCircle used the situation during Covid-19 to put its circularity program at
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With the “3 Circles” bottle, all of the individual elements and the entire lifecycle were designed to be sustainable. It is made 100% out of recycled PET and it can be completely recycled again after use. Instead of having a label which is normally unable to be recycled, the bottle was
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Following long years of contract-bottling, the smoothie and juice producer innocent has decided to build the very first bottling plant of its own. Krones won the order for four complete PET bottling lines and the corresponding IT landscape. The paramount consideration for “the blender”, as innocent has christened its greenfield project,
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To meet growing demand in the fruit juice market, Berry M&H has introduced a new family range of square round PET bottles. Developed for a wide variety of juice and other non-alcoholic drinks, the SQROUND bottles are available in five sizes – 250ml, 300ml, 500ml, 750ml and 1 litre – and as
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In cooperation with Sidel, Spanish dairy company Andía Lácteos de Cantabria S.L. have modernised their plant in Renedo de Piélagos with the most modern, state-of-the-art aseptic PET bottling technology for ultra-high-temperature (UHT) milk for the Spanish dairy player. Andía Lácteos de Cantabriaare a part of the Iparlat Group, which originally were created
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Focus on weight reduction and conservation of resources Packaging weighs just 55 grams thanks to optimized base and neck Returnable bottle containing up to 35% recyclate Together with Austrian packaging expert Alpla KHS has now developed a returnable PET container that at 55 grams is extremely light. The 1.0-liter bottle’s high
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Berry Bramlage is launching a range of premium jars that enable cosmetic and beauty products to create a strong on-shelf presence and brand image while meeting consumer demands for more sustainable packaging. The new Infinity Quartz range can be specified in a choice of materials (including post-consumer recycled (PCR) plastic), finishes
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Nestlé Waters North America announced that three more of their U.S. domestic still water brands have started to convert their packaging to 100% recycled PET. Ozarka Brand 100% Natural Spring Water, Deer Park Brand 100% Natural Spring Water and Zephyrhills Brand 100% Natural Spring Water packaging, which has long been 100%
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Pretium Packaging, a leading North American manufacturer of plastic containers and closures, has made a $5 million dollar investment in polyethylene terephthalate (PET) stretch blow moulding equipment and infrastructure that spans across 6 of its 19 manufacturing locations. “This expansion effort provides a comprehensive approach to supporting our existing and new
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