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Fast turnaround and advanced metrology HRC Europe Hall C5 – Booth 220 HRC, based in Győr, Hungary, was founded in 2006 by brothers Árpád and Tamás Horvath. Its core business is servicing of PET hot runners and the supply of high-quality spare parts to the PET packaging industry. Its annual gross
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The UK is not known as a hub of production of PET bottle tool manufacturing but if the UK editor as revealed nothing else, it is that it has a cluster of interesting and enterprising bottle producers. We have met a few, and expect to visit more. And in order to
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Repetco was awarded with the prize ‘SME for innovation and sustainability’, in the second edition of the Retina ECO Awards, which are in collaboration with Capgemini. This award has recognised the technology developed by the company for a problem that, until now, remained unsolved: the recycling of multilayer PET plastic, very
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H.B. Fuller Hall C6 – Booth 445 The European Green Deal and related legislation in Europe and globally, as well as corporate commitments aligned to the New Plastics Economy, are driving change for consumer packaging at a rapid pace. Working with partners across the industry to develop new packaging solutions ready
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The Austrian injection moulding machine manufacturer, headquartered in Schwertberg, has invested more than 14 million euros in the new technology centre at the large machine plant in St. Valentin. With a total floor space of 3,400 square metres, Engel has more than doubled the technology centre capacity at the location. The
Read moreThai-based Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL) with its facility Wellman France Recycling in Verdun, has been working on the PET trays recycling for six years and through an ongoing project with Valorplast and supported by Citeo. The project has the objective to develop and validate recycling for monolayer and multilayer
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Rising energy prices, establishing a circular economy and changing consumer needs pose serious challenges for manufacturers of plastic packaging. Injection moulding machine manufacturer ENGEL has established a new Packaging Centre to help its customers in this demanding industry further boost the performance of production cells and ensure their competitiveness. Some 300
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Paccor, one of the leading global players in the plastic packaging industry, acts responsibly in the field of sustainability, in packaging production and makes every effort towards the full implementation of a circular economy. Paccor is fully committed to the HolyGrail 2.0 Digital Watermarks initiative and is now celebrating the success
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The first of the redesigned Frosch product groups are already on retail shelves. One after another, the remaining products around the world will don the new design as the cleaning products manufacturer Werner & Mertz of Mainz, Germany, rolls out the biggest design relaunch in eco brand’s 35-year-plus history. Clearly Distinct
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The PepsiCo company has implemented a test project with the German dual system “Grüner Punkt” (“Green Dot”) in which the container film for Pepsi bottles and cans is made from 10% recycled plastic from the yellow bag, 40% recycled plastic from other sources and only half from new plastic. If further
Read moreAvantium N.V. announces that it has signed a conditional offtake agreement with Sukano AG, producing masterbatches for PEF. The masterbatches are tailored to impart properties to plastics and as such are an effective way to diversify and expand polymer applications. With PEF from Avantium’s FDCA Flagship Plant, Sukano will develop masterbatches
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