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Danone and Nestlé Waters have joined forces with Origin Materials, a startup based in Sacramento, California, to form the NaturALL Bottle Alliance. Together, the three partners aim to develop and launch at commercial scale a PET plastic bottle made from bio-based material, i.e. 100% sustainable and renewable resources. The project uses
Read moreThis yearly event of plastics recyclers gathers around 200 attendees from across the whole plastics value chain including: recyclers, collectors, sorting companies, converters, raw material producers, brand owners as well as academics and decision makers. This year the event will take place in Barcelona on the 15th and 16th of June.
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UPM Raflatac is launching a new, thin film product for clear labelling in beverage applications, especially glass or PET beer bottle labelling. RafBev Clear TC 40 offers a clear, no-label look for companies aiming to replace wet glue with a PSA solution. For the ultimate clear-on-clear look, the RP76E adhesive and
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Egg producer Hickman’s Family Farms from Arizona, USA, introduces a clear rPET egg container. Made entirely from post-consumer PET soda and water bottles at Global Plastics in California, every day millions of water soda and bottles are ground, washed, and formed into containers for Hickman’s Family Farms. It takes about five
Read moreThe Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS) announced that its Machinery Safety Standards Committee has published the new voluntary standard establishing requirements for the manufacture and use of injection moulding machines. The new standard aligns well with the European and draft ISO standards on this subject, making it easier for American manufacturers to
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Cold Jet, producer of dry ice cleaning and production system solutions, moved into its new technology center in Weinsheim, Germany. The new 640m² building is constructed on a space of 3,000m². The building is designed for future expansion by the possibility of adding more modules. The new office houses sales, service,
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On February 1, 160 delegates from the entire PET value chain from Europe and beyond convened in Brussels for the annual Petcore Europe Conference 2017. Under the theme “PET 2020 – The future of the PET industry”, the complete industry – from PET resin producers, masterbatch producers, packaging designers and manufacturers,
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After year-long evaluation and analysis, Adsale Exhibition Services Ltd. has decided that Chinaplas 2018 will move to a new venue – the National Exhibition and Convention Center (NECC) in Hongqiao district, Shanghai. Chinaplas 2018 is confirmed to take place at NECC from April 24-27. Growing hand in hand with the Chinese
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Coca-Cola North America is brewing up a multi-brand strategy to compete more aggressively in the piping-hot cold coffee category. The company started to roll out a range of diverse yet complementary ready-to-drink (RTD) coffee offerings. Dunkin’ Donuts’ new line of bottled, ready-to-drink (RTD) iced coffee beverages are hitting refrigerator cases at
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In conjunction with the world’s biggest beverages show Drinktec, PETplanet set off for an extensive tour throughout South East Asia’s PET industry all by road. Bali with its idyllic beaches, luxury holidays and endless sunshine marked the start of this year’s Editour. The first appointments and interviews are already behind us.
Read moreProcessing Technologies International (PTi) has released the findings of an independent study which reaffirms FDA guidelines for the use of virgin PET cap layers as functional barriers over post-consumer recycled non-letter of no objection (hereinafter referred to as PCR) PET flake materials for direct food packaging use at room temperature. The
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