Graham Packaging announces new plant in Bowling Green

Graham Packaging Company, along with their customer Sun Products, and Lt. Governor Crit Luallen, community leaders and the Bowling Green Area Chamber of Commerce, celebrated the groundbreaking of their new plant in Bowling Green, Kentucky’s South Central Kentucky Industrial Park. Graham, a manufacturer and designer of blow-molded plastic containers, plans to

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PlasticsEurope appoints director of Public Affairs

PlasticsEurope, the pan-European association representing European plastics manufacturers, is announcing the appointment of Leonor Garcia as Director Public Affairs. She will take up her new position at PlasticsEurope as of September 1, 2015. Presently, she is Director Corporate Scientific and Regulatory Affairs at The Coca-Cola Company, responsible for providing thought leadership,

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R+D Leverage’s New Opti-Sim Virtual Prototyping Tool

R&D Leverage’s new Opti-Sim Virtual Prototyping process, which lets PET packagers anticipate a bottle concept’s impact on engineering, operations and marketing, is now available. According to the company’s Vice President of Engineering, Dave Brunson, Opti-Sim performs a complete range of diagnostic, real-world simulations addressing myriad variables, speeds time-to-market, cuts tooling and

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New KUBE range to go on show at Scanpack 2015

Sacmi labelling technology will take part at Scanpack, northern Europe’s biggest international packaging fair that will – following the success of the 2012 edition with 13,000 visitors – be back from 20 to 23 October in the city of Gothenburg, Sweden. The Group’s stand (hall B02, n° 09) will be displaying

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Logoplaste receives 2015 supplier award from SC Johnson

SC Johnson announced Logoplaste as a recipient of its 2015 Customer Service Excellence Supplier Award. The company is being recognised for its best-in-class on-time/in-full delivery speed and flawless execution, while remaining agile and proactive in its supply chain. Winners were recently announced at an awards ceremony during an SC Johnson supplier

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New President of Global Beverage Packaging for Husky

Husky Injection moulding Systems today announced changes within its global Beverage Packaging organization. Gerardo Chiaia will take on the new role of President of Global Beverage Packaging for Husky. In this role, Mr Chiaia will be focused on continuing to grow the business through the ongoing development of innovative technologies that

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Mark Stirpe joins Athena as Business Manager, PET

On July 6th, 2015, Mark Stirpe joined Athena in the role of Business Manager, PET reporting to Jim Overbeeke, VP of Sales and Engineering. His responsibilities include sales and project engineering for preform machines and PET relationships across all levels. Mr Stirpe brings over 13 years of product development, sales engineering

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