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New 20 and 25 litre PET containers from RPC Promens Industrial are designed to provide an enhanced handling solution for a wide range of industrial products. Their ergonomic design makes them light and easy to handle and a central neck provides easy pouring with no glugging. The containers are also stackable.
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Font Vella, Danone’s Spanish natural mineral water brand, has recently announced the upcoming launch of Coach2O, a device that tracks water intake and coaches people toward adequate hydration. The product is being developed in partnership with water.io, an innovative start-up specialised in smart packaging. Packed with sensors, Coach2O is a clip
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Renewable energy was celebrated at the official opening of the largest roof-mounted solar powered plant in the Baltic States at global plastic packaging manufacturer Retal’s Lentvaris factory. Attended by many of Lithuania’s leading business people interested in green energy, the event, called “Solar Energy and Lithuanian Business: Good Practices and Challenges”,
Read moreThe packaging solutions specialist Alpla, based in Austria, has completed a 100 per cent takeover of Zamil Alpla. Alpla and Zamil founded a joint venture in 2008, of which Alpla previously held a 49 per cent share. After ten years of close collaboration as part of a joint venture, Alpla has
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With a turnover of £14 million in 2017 and £40 million (45,687,551,97€) in 2018, Huel is one of the fastest growing companies in the UK. Revolutionising the nutrition game in less than four years, it offers customers nutritionally complete meals with a mission surrounding convenience, affordability and lessening the impact on
Read moreIndorama Ventures Public Company Limited would like to inform that it has, through its indirect subsidiary, Indorama Netherlands B.V. (“INBV”), signed adefinitive share purchase agreement on February 6th, 2019 with Church Street Trustees Limited as trustees of the SI Trust, BTI Overseas Limitedand Capital Alliance Private Equity II Limited, for the
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Avery Dennison Corporation announced the appointment of Sam O’Keefe as vice president of research and development (R&D) for its Label and Graphic Materials group in Europe (LGM-EU), effective immediately. She will be based at Oegstgeest, the Netherlands, reporting to Pascale Wautelet, vice president of global R&D. She will become part of
Read moreThermHex presents its honeycomb cores made of recycled PET (rPET) for the first time at the JEC World in Paris. The rPET core can be used within automotive products, for prefabricated bathrooms, yacht interior, wind turbines, swimming pools, furniture and many other scenarios. With the rPET honeycomb core customers have the
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In a growing industry shift towards sustainable packaging and product design, one of South Africa’s largest manufacturers of wood-based products, PG Bison, has decided to use only locally sourced and recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) strapping. According to PG Bison’s chief executive officer, Gerhard Victor, the company uses 9.1 million metres of
Read moreThe Gebo Cermex and Sidel business units are officially operating as one single team called Sidel, as of January 01, 2019. The company states that by joining forces the team has increased the quality of these assets for Sidel and for Sidel’s customers. Sidel, part of Tetra Laval group, is offering
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Avery Dennison announced the recent launch of a portfolio using recycled PET (rPET) liners with four labelling constructions now available across Europe. Georg Müller-Hof, vice president marketing LPM Europe, said that using post-consumer waste (PCW) to manufacture label liners represents a step change in sustainability. “Avery Dennison is focused on real-world
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