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Arizaga Bastarrica y Compañia S.A. (“ABC Compressors”), a Spanish compressor manufacturer, will become part of Atlas Copco Group. ABC Compressors was founded in 1943 and is located in Eibar, Spain. The company also has an assembly unit in Suzhou, China and sales offices in India, USA and Mexico. In total 319
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Delivering Happiness Limited, parent company of sustainable packaging company Packamama, has appointed Richard Lloyd to help lay the foundations for what could evolve into a next-generation wine packaging and bottling facility. This appointment also marks the start of a strategic collaboration to strengthen Packamama’s current operations while looking ahead to what
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MAAG Group is pleased to announce the successful completion of the SIKORA AG acquisition, a leading manufacturer of innovative measuring, control, and sorting technologies. The aim of the partnership is to leverage joint synergies in a targeted manner and to strengthen the position of both companies in the long term. With
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Prime Integrated Waste Solutions (PWS), a subsidiary of Prime Infra, has launched a key resource recovery initiative involving the collection and diversion of post-consumer plastic bottles. PWS’ materials recovery facility (MRF) in Cebu recently completed its first delivery of 6.2 t of baled PET bottles to the largest bottle-to-bottle recycling facility in
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Stadler Anlagenbau GmbH, the globally active German company specialising in the planning, production, and assembly of turnkey recycling and sorting plants, announced the appointment of Julia Stadler as Co-Chief Executive Officer, effective June 1, 2025. This step reinforces Stadler’s long-standing tradition of family leadership and embraces a forward-looking, sustainability-driven approach. The
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In a market environment that faces economic uncertainty, the EREMA Group maintains its position as a leading provider of plastics recycling solutions. The Group’s installed systems and components enabled the recycling of around 26 million tonnes of plastic waste worldwide during the financial year 2024/25, which closed at the end of
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Alpek, S.A.B. de C.V. announced the strategic decision to cease operations at its Cedar Creek facility in Fayetteville, North Carolina by July 31, 2025. The site, acquired by Alpek in 2001, has an installed capacity of 170,000t of PET resin and approximately 35,000t of rPET flake production. This decision is aligned
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Tomra Recycling has announced the appointment of Katrin Fricke as its new Executive Vice President (EVP) and Head of Tomra Recycling, effective June 1, 2025. Fricke succeeds Dr. Volker Rehrmann, who earlier this year announced his retirement from Tomra after over two decades with the business. Katrin Fricke brings a wealth
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Carbios has signed its first multi-year offtake contracts with L’Oréal and L’Occitane en Provence for biorecycled rPET from its future commercial plant in Longlaville, France. The agreements mark a step in the company’s efforts to scale enzymatic recycling technology, which aims to provide an alternative method for producing recycled PET suitable
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KHS GmbH has restructured its voluntary reporting process. The systems provider for the filling and packaging industry has now brought its sustainability report further into line with the EU reporting standard and is disclosing additional non-financial KPIs. “We’ve come a good step further in 2024. This is mainly thanks to the
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PepsiCo announced refined climate, packaging, agriculture, and water goals to continue to build a stronger, more resilient business that aims to drive scalable positive impact. The updated goals build on nearly four years of progress and learnings since the launch of the PepsiCo Positive (pep+) business strategy, which embeds sustainability into
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