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Chemical producer Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL) has announced the acquisition of 100% of the Purified Isopthalic Acid, Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET and Purified Terephthalic Acid (PTA) assets of Cepsa Química S.A., a subsidiary of Compañía Española de Petróleos S.A.U. (“CEPSA”) in Guadarranque-San Roque, Cadiz, Spain. The company will be renamed
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Karl Finke GmbH will present at Plastpol, May 17 – 20, at Kielce, Poland, comprises granulated masterbatches and pigment powders as well as liquid dyes and colouring pastes for almost any type of plastics application. At Finke, experienced technicians counsel and support customers from industries like cosmetics- and food packaging, medical
Read moreKrones has purchased 60 % of the shares in System Logistics S.p.A. The company is based in Fiorano, in Northern Italy, and is a leading, international supplier of solutions for intralogistics, material flow technology and warehousing. A majority of the customers come from the food and beverage industries. In 2015, the
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The company PET Engineering presents a preview of the new logo which will gradually replace its current one over the course of 2016. The international company PET Engineering known for the design and industrialisation of PET packaging in the food, detergents and cosmetics sectors, founded 30 years ago by Moreno Barel’s
Read moreMEGlobal, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Equate Petrochemical Company, plans to construct a new world-scale monoethylene glycol (MEG) manufacturing facility at Dow’s Oyster Creek site in Freeport, Texas, USA. The new MEG facility will be owned by MEGlobal and is the Company’s first manufacturing unit in the United States. The new MEGlobal
Read moreErema invites clients and interested persons to be part of the Discovery Day on June 1, 2016 at the headquarters in Ansfelden, Austria. This year’s focus will be on PET recycling, inline applications and bottle-to-bottle. Visitors will be given first-hand information on how to save energy, time and costs. Erema will
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With the collaborative contributions of R&D/Leverage UK, ISBM total Solution provider, and PET Power, a plastic bottle producer in the Netherlands, Fred Housheer, entrepreneur from the Netherlands, realised the Hydranome water bottle. This bottle lets the user know how much water they drink daily with the use of an interactive dial
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The Golden Label Award was granted to the most outstanding achievements in label design and label production. In the middle of March, the Ferry Porsche Congress Center in Zell am See, Austria, saw the award ceremony of the coveted Golden Label Award. An international jury of experts from the specialist fields
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Because of its central location, the Bangkok service center will provide expanded services for Agr International, Inc. products over the entire Asian region. Over the last few years, southern Asia has been one of the fastest growing packaging markets, as evident by the growth in Agr’s customer base within this area.
Read moreSumitomo (SHI) Demag has presented record results for 2015, with sales at EUR 234 million, up 11% on the previous year, and a significant increase in strategic market shares. These growth figures are said to be the result of the strategic changes initiated in April 2015, i.e. the focus on core
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KraussMaffei has appointed Klaus Zeiler as the new Head of the Logistics/Packaging business unit in the injection moulding machinery segment with immediate effect.He is taking over the duties of Emilio Lopez, who in future as Area Sales Manager for Ibero-America will concentrate on the expansion of the sales activities for the
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