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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
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Proprietary research from PTI shows that polyethylene therephthalate (PET) bottle performance issues may have their root cause in how long preforms are stored and in what environment. “Our plant support personnel were frequently being asked what storage duration was acceptable for preforms and what problems can present themselves during longer storage
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Pretium Packaging, a North American manufacturer of plastic containers and closures, has made a $2 million dollar investment in new reheat stretch polyethylene terephthalate (PET) blow moulding equipment and infrastructure for its Troy, Alabama manufacturing plant. The equipment is capable of producing both cold- and hot-fill PET containers to support the
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Armenia’s biggest mineral water spring continues to grow. With the help of KHS the Jermuk Group CJSC has expanded its PET and glass bottle water bottling capacity and is now able to react more quickly to the growing demands of the domestic and international markets. The water of the same name
Read moreThe 3rd edition of Blow Moulding (Cologne, June 24-26) will bring together the entire supply chain: brand owners, retailers, packaging companies, blow-moulders, preform manufacturers, suppliers of ancillary components such as labels, caps and closures, handles and grips, machinery manufacturers, raw material and additive suppliers, product and mould designers, testing, certification and
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GEA has launched its new D-tec D/DV double-chamber valve by end of April 2019. This special double-seat valve is designed with a sterile leakage chamber which is hermetically sealed from the atmosphere by two side valves. As with the entire aseptic D-tec range, the outstanding sealing properties of the new valve
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SACMI Hall 4.1 Booth C41 Italian packaging machinery manufacture Sacmi offers five reasons for visitors to Chinaplas to visit its stand. It will be displaying a CCM 48 SD continuous compression moulding press, one of 23 solutions recently supplied to Hebei Red Hat Plastic Co., Ltd, the Chinese packaging giant. The
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At its Auspack conference on March 27, 2019, the Australian Packaging and Processing Machinery Association (APPMA) selected the best packaging innovations and products of the year. GEA Vipoll received the Award of Excellence for its All In One monoblock filler in two categories: GEA’s Australian partner Foodmach had submitted the filler
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Bottles: recycled, produced, filled and shipped in a real cycle On the most northerly part of our tour we met Sandy Gott of Ice River Spring in Feversham, Ontario. She told us the amazing story of her family-owned business which is the only beverage company in North America operating their own
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With a turnover of £14 million in 2017 and £40 million (45,687,551,97€) in 2018, Huel is one of the fastest growing companies in the UK. Revolutionising the nutrition game in less than four years, it offers customers nutritionally complete meals with a mission surrounding convenience, affordability and lessening the impact on
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