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Maag Group to acquire XanTec Steuerungs- und EDV Technik GmbH to strengthen its digitalisation capabilities

4 Sep 20203 Sep 2020 Heike Fischer 1177 Views 1 min read

Switzerland-based Maag Group, a broadly diversified global solutions provider with integrated and customisable systems in process technology for the polymer, chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical and food industries, has strengthened its digital capabilities by acquiring Germany-based XanTec Steuerungs- und EDV Technik GmbH (“XanTec”). XanTec plans, designs and manufactures advanced industrial control systems that

Events

Engel live e-xperience 2020

3 Sep 20202 Sep 2020 Gabriele Kosmehl 1414 Views 2 min read

In a year that will not let the Fakuma show happen, Engel is setting new standards with a new virtual and interactive trade fair concept. Live exhibits, an online specialist congress and one-on-one meetings with familiar local contacts and other experts ensure that the Engel live e-xperience (from 13 to 16

Bottles / Bottle Making Events Recycling

German Packaging Award 2020 – Krones wins in the “Sustainability” category

2 Sep 20201 Sep 2020 Gabriele Kosmehl 1311 Views 1 min read

With the “3 Circles” bottle, all of the individual elements and the entire lifecycle were designed to be sustainable. It is made 100% out of recycled PET and it can be completely recycled again after use. Instead of having a label which is normally unable to be recycled, the bottle was

Recycling

Modular PET tent

1 Sep 20201 Sep 2020 Gabriele Kosmehl 1149 Views 1 min read

After Marius Mersinger from the Faculty of Architecture at the German Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences (Frankfurt UAS) won second prize in the AppliedIdea competition and many other prizes with his project “zeltHAUS”, he is now continuing on the road to success with a new team: Together with Fabian Hegner and

Recycling

Switzerland establishes new PET bottles collecting system

31 Aug 202031 Aug 2020 Gabriele Kosmehl 1662 Views 0 min read

On behalf of PET-Recycling Schweiz, Swiss Post is now collecting PET beverage bottles from all over Switzerland in special collection bags from home. The service was successfully tested regionally in 2019 and will now be extended to the whole of Switzerland. The new service is aimed at private households and was

Labelling

Minimalist label design

28 Aug 202028 Aug 2020 Gabriele Kosmehl 2658 Views 1 min read

CCL Kontur has been entrusted by Coca-Cola to develop the label printing technology for the new “Rich” product range of cold storage juices. The goal was to highlight the naturalness of the product itself keeping the concept of a minimalist label design. The Russian printing house CCL Kontur worked together with

Companies Materials Recycling

Amcor joins U.S. plastics pact to advance circular economy goals in the United States

27 Aug 202027 Aug 2020 Gabriele Kosmehl 1551 Views 1 min read

Amcor announced it has joined the U.S. Plastics Pact, a collaborative, solutions-driven initiative to create a path forward to a circular economy for plastics in the United States by 2025. The U.S. Plastics Pact is focused on four ambitious goals intended to drive significant systems change by unifying diverse cross-sector approaches,

Bottles / Bottle Making Bottling / Filling Companies

Krones and innocent are building a CO2-neutral bottling plant

26 Aug 202026 Aug 2020 Heike Fischer 1490 Views 2 min read

Following long years of contract-bottling, the smoothie and juice producer innocent has decided to build the very first bottling plant of its own. Krones won the order for four complete PET bottling lines and the corresponding IT landscape. The paramount consideration for “the blender”, as innocent has christened its greenfield project,

Packaging / Palletising Recycling

KHS and Martens realise sustainable packaging for German food store chain

25 Aug 202025 Aug 2020 Gabriele Kosmehl 1479 Views 2 min read

Together with traditional Martens Brewery in Belgium the turnkey supplier KHS has made the portfolio for a German food store chain more sustainable. Karlskrone beer is now to be sold as a film-free KHS Nature MultiPack of six – in redesigned 0.5-liter PET bottles made entirely of recyclate. As part of

Bottles / Bottle Making

New family range of square round PET bottles

24 Aug 202024 Aug 2020 Gabriele Kosmehl 1279 Views 1 min read

To meet growing demand in the fruit juice market, Berry M&H has introduced a new family range of square round PET bottles. Developed for a wide variety of juice and other non-alcoholic drinks, the SQROUND bottles are available in five sizes – 250ml, 300ml, 500ml, 750ml and 1 litre – and as

Companies News Recycling

Klӧckner Pentaplast commits to PET capacity expansion for the sustainable consumer and protein packaging market in North America

21 Aug 202021 Aug 2020 Heike Fischer 2111 Views 1 min read

Klöckner Pentaplast (kp), a global leader in recycled content products and high-barrier protective packaging, announces its commitment to expand its post-consumer recycled PET extrusion capacity by 17,500 metric tonnes, which significantly increases it’s capacity for thermoformed recyclable protein trays in North America. The multimillion-dollar capacity expansion will be located among the

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