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Garçon Wines, a multi award-winning scale-up business known for bringing eco-flat rPET wine bottles to market, is spinning off the packaging elements of the business under the new brand, Packamama. This new name – inspired by the Inca goddess Pachamama – and identity better reflect the business’ values, offerings, and future
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Ozone is known as one of the strongest oxidising agents available. Producers of packaged water also like to take advantage of its effect and operating principle because ozone dissolved in water reliably removes bacteria and viruses and then swiftly decomposes without leaving any residues. That is precisely the reason why an
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Each time you embark on an Editour, you end up in countries, or at least part of them, where you never thought you would be when the tour was originally planned. The European Road Show has been running successfully since autumn 2021 and at the end of November, we received a
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Extrusion blow moulding machines from the German capital – Interview with Bekum Maschinenfabriken GmbH Bekum Maschinenfabriken GmbH has its headquarters on an industrial estate in the south of Berlin’s Tempelhof-Schöneberg district. It is an original Berlin company and after more than 60 years of its existence, the world of extrusion blow
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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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The largest PET recycling plant in the country is now up and running and will substantially reduce Australia’s plastic waste by recycling the equivalent of around 1 billion PET beverage bottles each year. The $45 million plant in Albury-Wodonga has boosted regional jobs and is helping to build a domestic circular
Read moreUniloy Inc., a blow moulding machine and mould technology company serving the global plastics processing industry, announced its purchase of certain assets of the now defunct Amsler Equipment Inc. of Vaughn, Ontario, Canada. Uniloy, Inc. purchased certain assets from the Receiver and Trustee in the bankruptcy of Niigon Machines, Ltd., who
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Carlos Quintero is Sacmi Beverage’s new Sales Director for the American market, including four offices in the United States, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina. Closeness to the customer, cohesiveness and shared goals throughout the entire team: this is the roadmap set out by Quintero, who takes on the new role after 22
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Judging Panel Announced for 2022 Awards – Organisers of the Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2022 have extended the entry deadline for all seven award categories until Friday 18 March 2022. To complete your online #PRAE2022 award entry, simply visit: https://www.prseventeurope.com/prse2022/en/page/awards-2022. The judging panel for the 2022 awards has also been revealed.
Read moreEvergreen, one of North America’s three largest producers of food grade rPET, has announced that it will be installing artificial intelligence-enabled bottle sorting robotics at its Albany, New York plastics recycling and rPET manufacturing facility. When the installation is completed in mid 2022, Evergreen will have deployed 15 high-speed, highly accurate
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The East Midlands of England has something of a cluster of businesses involved with packaging. We visited Measom Freer near Leicester just a few days before meeting Paccor at its site near Mansfield, near Nottingham, and its near-neighbour, R&D/Leverage, who we have known and encountered over many years and in many
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