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Berry M&H has launched a fully accredited child-resistant (CR) complete pack solution for liquid healthcare products. The pack comprises Berry’s Pharma Round PET bottle, together with its child resistant closures (CRC) PP28 Medi-Loc CRC and TE (tamper-evident) CRC, which can be fitted with a variety of specified liners. The combined pack
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The Australasian Packaging Innovation & Designs Awards (Pidas), the pinnacle awards programme for the Australia and New Zealand region, was held in conjunction with Foodtech Queensland in July. Caps & Closures, for the very first time, emerged as the overall winner with the most awards among some of the top innovators
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Sipa Hall A4 – Booth 304 Sipa will be showing its expertise in PET technology: container design and engineering, state-of-the-art preform injection capability, blowing and filling systems, sustainable solutions based on reduced consumption of utilities and virgin fossil-based materials which increased use of post-consumer recyclate. Focus points will be line integration,
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Sacmi Hall B5 – Booth 101, 302-304 Sacmi will be introducing its Smart lines for cap and preform production at Drinktec. The focus will be on the new digital architecture of the machines and processes and the development of new standards that are already compliant with the coming regulations. Sacmi bases
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Solution for a digital factory Newamstar Hall B5 – Booth 327 Newamstar is a global liquid packaging machinery supplier and is committed to providing turn-key solutions for integration of production and storage smart factory. The company has been working with most of the top brands like Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Danone, Unilever, Nice
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Tethered caps require complex cutting geometries As part of the Brückner Group’s Pre-K press conference in Freilassing, Bavaria, we met Beat Rupp, CEO of Packsys Global. Their machines are essential when it comes to implementing the EU Directive on tethered caps. Along with complete systems for extruded tubes and laminate tubes,
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Due to an impending directive set forth by the European Union (EU), tethered caps which remain permanently attached to the bottle after opening and during use will soon be widely available for consumers across Europe. The aim of the new directive is to prevent unintended environmental waste and facilitate the recycling
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Naturally, mobility plays a key role during our Editours. The routes for our Editourmobil journeys are meticulously arranged so that as many company visits as possible are linked together meaningfully. Beat Rupp has shown us something even more efficient. As part of the Brückner Group’s Pre-K press conference, the Packsys Global
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Review of PETinar Tethered Caps: Design, Produce and Inspect! On March 24th, 2022 PETplanet Insider presented its latest online conference. PETplanet invited speakers from three companies, Universal Closures, z-moulds and Intravis to talk about their experiences and assessments of the current situation of tethered caps. The three presenters, Mark Smith (Universal
Read morePressco Technology Inc. and Somex Ltd. are pleased to announce their strategic and exclusive partnership effective March 2022. Pressco Technology, with headquarters in the USA since 1966, is well known for developing high-speed vision and sensory inspection solutions to improve process control and maximise profitability for manufacturers in the food, beverage,
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In the EU, tethered caps will be mandatory from 2024 and worldwide entirely thread geometries like 26/22 are expanding their market share. While the remainder of the preform can retain its original size, in many moulds the neck rings will need to be replaced with new geometries. As an independent mould
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