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Husky, Hall 13, Booth A61 Focused on a wide range of plastic applications within a variety of markets, including food and beverage packaging, general plastic packaging, medical, automotive, and home, beauty and personal care, Husky will demonstrate its injection moulding solutions helping their customers to find ways to better respond to
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Sumitomo Demag, Hall 15, Booth D22 Sumitomo (SHI) Demag Plastics Machinery GmbH will introduce its fastest, most energy efficient, sustainable, and data driven integrated machine line-up. Presenting five machines, the company is continuing its staunch focus on delivering precision, power and productivity to plastic moulders globally. Consuming up to 20% less
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R&D Leverage, Hall 14, Booth B64 R&D/Leverage Europe offers full-service manufacturing, sales and service from its state-of-the-art facilities in the UK. During K-Show R & D Leverage will be highlighting their expertise in single stage blow mould tooling, product evaluation, tooling design and its manufacturing and technical service assistance programs. A
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The shipments value of primary plastics machinery (injection moulding and extrusion) shipments in North America increased in the second quarter according to the statistics compiled and reported by the Plastics Industry Association’s (Plastics) Committee on Equipment Statistics (CES). Following a 27.6% decrease in the first quarter, plastics machinery shipments increased 8.2%
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One of America’s leading mainstream bottled water brand will roll out a next-generation lineup of recyclable, reusable and package-free options – anchored by the first-ever HybridBottle in the U.S. made out of 50% plant-based, renewable material (PlantBottle) and recycled PET (rPET). The 20-oz. bottles will launch nationwide in mid-2020 and will
Read morePackaging industry demonstrates innovative solutions and discusses new approaches at FachPack 2019, September 24-26, Exhibition Centre Nuremberg. Demonstrations against the flood of waste and calls for more environmental protection in the 1980s and 1990s led to the Packaging Ordinance, can deposits and dual systems. The discussion about environmentally friendly packaging is
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In order to meet the growing market needs, the company Al Ethiad Refreshment continually invest in new technologies and cutting-edge production plants. The plant supplied by SMI includes an integrated system from the Ecobloc Ergon series, a case packer from the LWP 30 Ergon series and a shrink wrapper from the
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The company designed custom 600 milliliter containers for beverage maker New Age Bebidas, Leme, São Paulo, that feature the beauty of a glass-like, champagne-style base combined with the convenience of lightweight and shatter-resistant PET. Amcor’s design showcases New Age’s Salzburg craft beer brand and differentiates it from standard glass bottle
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KHS, Hall 13, Booth A75 KHS presents a new PET concept based on the juice bottle as an example. It combines individual environmentally friendly packaging solutions in one container and thereby supports the theory of circular economy. Kai Acker, CEO of KHS, emphasises the continuously growing demand in the food and
Read moreSuntory Group’s new company-wide policy focuses on implementing sustainable plastic that promote a recycling-oriented and decarbonised society. Based on this Plastic Policy, Suntory will aim for fully sustainable plastic bottles by expanding “FtoP production” capability and switching to recycled materials or plant-based materials for all PET bottles used globally by 2030.
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On July 18, Sidel announced the acquisition of Cognac Moules Emballages Plastiques (Comep), a French producer and designer of moulds for PET, adding further strength to the group in the manufacturing of moulds and tooling. Comep was created in 1998 to focus on the design and manufacturing of moulds for PET
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