The winner takes it all

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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BASF and Avantium to establish JV

BASF and Avantium announced that they have signed a letter of intent and entered into exclusive negotiations to establish a joint venture (JV) for the production and marketing of furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA), as well as marketing of polyethylenefuranoate (PEF), based on this new chemical building block. FDCA is produced from renewable

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Report: The Future of PET Packaging

Smithers Pira publishes new report, The Future of PET Packaging to 2021, which provides market volume and value data by end-use markets and by geographic region/country for the PET packaging market. In 2015, PET packaging amounted to just under 16.7 million tonnes, representing a 3.8% increase on 2014 levels. Going into

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Bonding PET bottles

With Nature MultiPack NMP Systems GmbH is bringing a disruptive packaging innovation powered by KHS to market. An intensive collaboration with Danone Waters led to the premier market introduction on brand Evian starting in France and Belgium this month. Nature MultiPack is the bonding together of PET bottles with specially developed

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Alpla announces joint venture with Taba

The Austrian Alpla Group and the Egyptian Taba Group have signed a partnership agreement in the form of a joint venture. Alpla will take on a majority shareholding in the company which will begin operating under the name of Alpla Taba. The contracting parties have agreed not to disclose the details

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