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The Bekum group celebrated recently three anniversaries – 60 years Bekum in Berlin Germany, 50 years Bekum in Traismauer Austria und 40 years Bekum in Williamston, USA. As part of the celebrations at the American location, the groundbreaking ceremony for the expansion of production capacities was made on November 26, 2019.
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As the packaging markets in Asia and the surrounding region continue to expand, Agr has recognised a significant growth in the demand for its quality management and process control equipment for plastic containers. This is evidenced by an ever expanding customer base in this region. The establishment of an office in
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OneCircle, the global leader in PET kegs, has announced two new partnerships which will increase its footprint in Scandinavia and the Baltics, as part of its reseller strategy and global growth plans. The new partners, Caldic and Norway’s biggest brewing wholesaler and retailer Craft & Co, will now sell OneCircle’s market
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New concepts in PET bottles are the next big thing in wine and Amcor is unveiling its most recent designs at the Unified Wine and Grape Symposium, February 4-6 at Cal Expo in Sacramento, California, USA. In addition to custom designs, Amcor is announcing its collaboration with British multi award-winning start-up
Read moreBiffa, a leading UK recycler and waste management provider, opened its new £27.5m1 state of the art PET plastic bottle recycling facility in Seaham, County Durham, UK. Biffa’s investment in the new facility, which is stated to be among the most modern and technically advanced of its kind in the world,
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Caiba, headquartered in Valencia, Spain, a leading company in the country’s plastic packaging sector and a specialist in the design and manufacture of PET preforms and packaging, has acquired Pramix, a Toledo family company, specialising in the manufacture of plastic containers, primarily for the food, home and personal hygiene sectors. Caiba,
Read moreGlobal plastic packaging manufacturer Retal states that its vocal sustainability commitment is heading in the right direction with an over 13% increase in its EcoVadis score in just one year. According to Retal’s Sustainability Director Emmanuel Duffaut, the score is the latest milestone in the company’s ongoing focus on a multi-stakeholder,
Read morePET to PET Recycling Österreich GmbH can look back on its most successful year to date: in 2019, more than 26,300 tonnes of PET material – equivalent to around 1.1 billion PET bottles – was used to produce valuable secondary raw material for new PET containers. This represents a further increase
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On the occasion of the company’s twentieth anniversary, the conditions of the previous year, increasing plastic bashing and the continuing individualisation of brand packaging have clouded the balance sheet of Petcycle GmbH. The operator of the petcycle pool system for beverage packaging reports an 11.8 percent decline in sales for 2019.
Read moreHusky Injection Molding Systems announced the appointment of Tony Black to the position of President, Customer Success Management (CSM). Mr. Black joins Husky’s senior leadership team leading the company’s global CSM organisation. “Since forming our consolidated CSM organisation in 2017, our goal has been to provide the industry’s most exceptional service
Read moreNine river clean-up programs across the world have been selected to receive a total of $11 million over the next three years as part of a partnership between The Coca-Cola Foundation and the Benioff Ocean Initiative at the University of California Santa Barbara’s Marine Science Institute. The partnership combines The Coca-Cola
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