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Southeast Asia’s largest economy, Indonesia, has a fast-growing plastics industry owing to robust demand from its food & beverage (F&B) packaging sector that accounts for around 60% of the plastics industry’s output. But Indonesia also generates about 6.8 million tons of plastic waste every year, according to the Indonesia National Plastic Action
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Tarsus Group, organiser of the Labelexpo Global Series, has announced that the Gulf Pack & Print (GPP) exhibition will now take place between 24-26 May 2022 at the World Trade Center in Dubai. Lisa Milburn, managing director, Gulf Print & Pack commented: ‘We have taken the decision to run Gulf Pack
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Under the theme of “New Era· New Potential· Innovation for Sustainability”, Chinaplas 2022 will return to the National Exhibition and Convention Center in Hongqiao, Shanghai, during April 25 – 28, 2022. More than 4,600 companies have reserved booths, which reflects strong market demand. Exhibitors are actively developing new products to be
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Drink Technology India (DTI), India’s leading event for the beverage and food industry, will start this week. On December 2-4, 2021, the trade show will be hosted as physical event at the Helipad Exhibition Centre in Gandhinagar, Gujarat State. Originally scheduled for October 20-22, the organisers from Messe München had to
Read moreDrinktec, the trade fair for the beverage and liquid food industry, will take place in Munich from September 12 to 16, 2022. The organisers now announce a current booking status of 90% of the floor space. For exhibitors and visitors alike, it is already foreseeable that the demand for exhibition space
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In showcasing the PCS 60 PET model from the Aero 2 range at the Fakuma trade fair, dry ice cleaning system manufacturer Cold Jet demonstrated a flexible, IoT-compatible solution for users that wish to carry out cleaning applications with a single machine to different degrees of effectiveness on surfaces of varying
Read moreHusky Injection Molding Systems, a leading technology provider to the plastics processing community, exhibited at Gulfood Manufacturing in Dubai, UAE. Husky’s booth was showcasing the company’s latest innovative solutions enabling its customers to adapt to continuously changing consumer and market demands for food and beverage packaging. “Husky understands that market conditions
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In March 2020, Packforce Austria, appealed to the World Packaging Organisation (WPO) to take the leadership in tackling the global packaging waste issue in a more practical and measurable way. “We agreed that much was being taught and spoken about on this global challenge, but there was a way to go
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A new plastics recycling technology Interview with Florian Riedl, Director Business Development at APK AG, Merseburg, Germany PETplanet: Dear Mr Riedl, may I ask you to briefly introduce you and your company? What were your reasons for looking at an alternative to mechanical and so-called “chemical” recycling?Florian Riedl: APK is a
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The 27th Fakuma international trade fair for plastics processing celebrated an inspiring restart in Friedrichshafen from the 12th through the 16th of October, 2021. 1470 exhibitors from 39 countries came to Lake Constance for the first major international on-site event for the plastics industry this fall, and presented injection moulding, extrusion
Read moreThe Plastics Recycling Show Europe (PRSE) conference programme has been published ahead of the event’s return to the RAI Amsterdam, The Netherlands on 4-5 November 2021. The latest trends in the plastics recycling sector will be explored in depth throughout the free-to-attend two-day event, providing a holistic view of the whole
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