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show devoted to Industry 4.0- interpack 2017 has recorded the biggest exhibitor demand in its over 55-year history. By the official closing date for registrations for the trade fair for the packaging sector and related processing industries at the end of February 2016, companies had booked about 20% more space than
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Special bottle shapes make high demands of many stretch blow moulders during production. The preferential heating system (PH) developed by the KHS Group enables bottlers to achieve perfect bottle quality with oval bottles in an energy-saving, safe and reliable process. The systems provider offers this option for its InnoPET Blomax Series
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Nigerian Breweries (Heineken Operating Company in Nigeria) commissioned PET Engineering’s team for the extension of their Climax, Amstel Malta and Maltina brands packaging to PET. The order involved a number of restrictions which included the need to use a preform that was readily available on the market to create unique shapes
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Farchioni olii S.p.A., one of Italy’s main producers of typical foods from Umbria oil, wine and flour, chose an independent partner that was easy to interact with to provide self-adhesive or cold-glue labels for glass and PET formats in the olive oil sector. The solution adopted by the company was to
Read moreChemical 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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