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Bottles: recycled, produced, filled and shipped in a real cycle On the most northerly part of our tour we met Sandy Gott of Ice River Spring in Feversham, Ontario. She told us the amazing story of her family-owned business which is the only beverage company in North America operating their own
Read moreSustainable technology company Anellotech and its joint development partners IFPEN and Axens have processed renewably-sourced aromatics made at Anellotech’s TCat- 8 pilot plant to successfully recover high-purity bio-based paraxylene – a key component for making 100% biobased PET bottles a reality. Anellotech, IFPEN and Axens will now purify additional paraxylene to
Read moreThe PET and rPET market has seen considerable change in the past year and the industry is looking for strategies to grow its businesses. This year’s PET Value Chain Conference held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, from March 11-13 will provide insights into the rising topics that are important for business strategy.
Read moreHusky Injection Molding Systems announced the appointment of John Hafferty to the position of Chief Financial Officer. He will join Husky’s senior leadership team and will lead the global finance organisation.Mr. Hafferty has more than 35 years of financial and business experience with global companies. Prior to joining Husky, Hafferty was
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A new “concept to commercialisation” partnership has been formed to help brand owners launch new or redesigned packages faster, backed by prototyping/testing to facilitate marketplace success. “The challenge most brand owners face is that they have to outsource different parts of the commercialisation process to various companies, compromising speed-to-market, as well
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The L’Occitane Group and Loop Industries announced the signing of a multi-year supply agreement for Loop branded 100% sustainable PET. The agreement will see the L’Occitane en Provence brand start to incorporate Loop PET plastic into its product packaging as of 2022, enabling it to increase from its current 30% recycled plastic
Read moreMesse München with its subsidiary Messe München do Brasil won the bidding for a new trade fair for the food-, beverage-and packaging-industries: INTECHTRA will be held for the first time fromSeptember 29 till October 2, 2020. The show takes place biannually at the São Paulo Expo. ABIMAQ, together with their Sectorial
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Now IMD can guarantee the high order volume with shorter delivery times. The new production area, the warehouse and the demonstration room are spacious and modern, less than 50m away from the old location. From mid-2019, the other areas will also move into the same building – then everything will be
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IBM researchers have created a new technology called VolCat, a catalytic waste-free chemical process that claims that it can turn even coloured PET into a renewable resource. VolCat aims to use a precise combination of chemicals, heat and pressure to reduce this amount of plastic, and ultimately the amount of waste,
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motan-colortronic India Private Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of the motan group moved to their modern larger premises in Chennai, India. In the presence of Karin Stoll, the Consul General for the Federal Republic of Germany, the new company building was festively inaugurated. “With the move to the larger building we
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With increasing focus on sustainability in packaging, Agr’s new lightweight option for the Process Pilot blowmoulder management system gives brand owners and bottle manufactures another tool to meet this complex and growing challenge. The Process Pilot system, with the lightweight option provides assurance that the limited material available for producing a
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