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H.B. Fuller Hall C6 – Booth 445 The European Green Deal and related legislation in Europe and globally, as well as corporate commitments aligned to the New Plastics Economy, are driving change for consumer packaging at a rapid pace. Working with partners across the industry to develop new packaging solutions ready
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Petka Mould Hall C5 – Booth 443 As a mould manufacturer, the Petka assists its customers – whether it’s preform producers or bottle producers-, in all phases, starting from the design of the preform until the production of the bottle. Petka designs suitable preform or even bottle drawings based on the
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SMI Group Hall A6 – Booth 403 The topics of energy efficiency and environmental sustainability play a key role in the investment choices of companies that have increasingly been opting for compact and efficient systems and machines, capable of ensuring an environmentally sustainable and high-quality production. SMI will present in world
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The Alpla Group is accelerating the roll-out of new plastic packaging solutions with the opening of the product development space ‘STUDIOa’ at the company headquarters in Hard, Austria. Customers can visit this one-stop shop to help complete the development process in a matter of days, from the first design draft and
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The Committee of PET Manufacturers in Europe (CPME), has announced its rebrand: PET Europe – Producers’ Association. The non-profit trade association represents PET resin producers and was founded in 2010. The new name and logo will strengthen awareness of the institutional role of the association and its geographical horizon of activity.
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The establishment of the independent, global Netstal organisation continues to progress under the umbrella of the KraussMaffei Group. In the most important regions, Netstal will serve customers from the medical technology and the beverage and packaging industries with 12 of its own subsidiaries. By concentrating on strategic application fields, users will
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R&D/Leverage survived the Covid-19 pandemic and even prospered, with a record surge in sales of its injection stretch blow moulding tooling and no Covid-related shutdown of its factory or offices. It had the foresight to buy an adjacent factory unit when it came available, in 2020, in order to be prepared
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Projects and solutions from prototyping to the finished bottle – Interview with Olivier Serre, Managing Director at Competek In the middle of the pandemic, PET Engineering and Comep announced their merger, becoming Competek. For almost exactly a year now, Competek has been advising customers on mould, bottle and preform design or
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According to figures released at the PET Recycling Company’s (PETCO) annual general meeting in June, 2.1 billion PET bottles were diverted from landfill last year thanks to the various recycling efforts in which it was involved. On the back of waste management experts warning that parts of South Africa could soon
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Gneuss, a family-owned company based in Bad Oeynhausen, Germany, has been shortlisted for the Plastics Recycling Awards 2022 in the category of Recycling Machinery Innovation with its unique MRSjump extrusion technology. The MRSjump is a new extruder which uses the operating principle of the Gneuss MRS technology however with a vastly
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The Austrian injection moulding machine manufacturer, headquartered in Schwertberg, has invested more than 14 million euros in the new technology centre at the large machine plant in St. Valentin. With a total floor space of 3,400 square metres, Engel has more than doubled the technology centre capacity at the location. The
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