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Alpla is expanding its recycling plant in Radomsko, Poland. The internationally active packaging and recycling specialist is investing around eight million euros in the third extrusion line at the site. The annual production capacity will increase from 30,000 to 54,000 tonnes of food-grade PET recycling material (rPET). This makes the PET
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The two international trade fairs for the beverage and liquid food industry will join forces to strengthen their positions in the world market. Drinktec from Munich, the world’s leading trade fair for the beverage and liquid food industry, and Nuremberg’s BrauBeviale, the leading capital goods trade fair for the beverage industry
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Porcarelli Group is an Italian company that operates across the entire waste chain – from collection to transport, all the way to the valorisation of waste as raw materials. The Group operates five plants with the aim of returning waste into the production cycle, reducing the consumption of virgin raw materials
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The multinational IFFCO Group, headquartered in the United Arab Emirates, is expanding its condiments production capacity by installing Sidel’s complete PET lines in the UAE and a new facility in Iraq. Throughout the entire project, IFFCO Group has entrusted Sidel to oversee the entire turnkey line project and ensure optimal efficiency.
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There is a new President at the Amaplast helm for the two-year term 2023-2025: Massimo Margaglione (Gefit spa), who was Vice President for the past 4 years and now receives the baton from Dario Previero. Also elected were the two Vice Presidents: Gabriele Caccia (Syncro srl) for a second term and
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The challenges associated with manufacturing PET containers are varied and complex. Process windows are short, and even the daily changes in ambient temperature and humidity in the production hall require regular manual adjustments to various process parameters to ensure the required level of container quality. Added to this are the steadily
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The manufacturer of specialised digital printing equipment Primera Technology has announced the launch of its new AP-Code Lot & Date Coder, suitable to print onto glass, metals, plastics and laminated labels. The company states that digital printing is a fast-rising area of product development, with major international packaging brands. AP-Code is designed
Read moreAvantium N.V., a leading technology provider in renewable chemistry, has been granted Critical Guidance Recognition from the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR). The APR Critical Guidance Protocol is one of the most universally accepted measures for assessing recyclability in plastic packaging design. Avantium earned the recognition for the use of PEF,
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The Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) has granted Responsible Innovation Recognition to Magnomer Inc. for its Magmark SS magnetisable coatings applied to PET-G shrink films for labelling of PET containers. The APR recognition, based on a high-volume commercial scale recyclability test for shrink sleeves, demonstrates that Magnomer’s novel magnetisable coatings technology is expected
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When Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) took the decision to introduce tethered caps for its PET bottles, Sidel supported CCEP with the transition. Required to implement the changes by July 2024 in line with single-use plastic (SUP) law, Coca-Cola Europacific Partners also identified the opportunity to move to a more sustainable package,
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As part of a European strategic partnership between Danone and Krones, Danone ordered five ErgoBloc L wet-end blocks in 2020, which will be now installed in various plants in France and Spain by the end of 2023. The arrival of the ErgoBloc technology is claimed to be a turning point for
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