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With a little over a month until the doors open for its eleventh edition, the organisers of Propak West Africa have released the Conference Programme and announced that this year’s event is fully endorsed by the Industrial Development Department of the Federal Ministry of Trade and Investment. As the region’s leading
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KHS has further developed its rPET containers for the home care and food sectors. In addition to bottle handles slotted into place mechanically, the Dortmund company now offers a glued-in process that gives users plenty of benefits: stretch blow moulded using the preferential heating method, the KHS PET bottle is more
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Bühler and Pellenc ST have officially joined forces to offer PET plastic recyclers a complete front and back-end solution for plastic bottle and flake sorting. It is hoped that this partnership will successfully future-proof PET recyclers’ processing activities and deliver the highest final quality. A North America agent agreement has been
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Repi, a leading manufacturer of performance additives and colours for polyurethanes and thermoplastics, announces the appointment of Mr Dimitris Dounis as new Managing Director of the US based company to further support the growth in North and South America. Mr Dounis brings over twenty years of extensive experience in the chemical
Read moreSukano, a global specialist in the development and production of additive and colour masterbatches and compounds for polyesters, biopolymers, and specialty resins, and Emery Oleochemicals, a global manufacturer of natural-based chemicals made predominantly from natural oils and fats, announced the launch of their jointly developed PET antifogging compound for direct food
Read moreNever-ending price increases, a still persistent difficult supply situation and rising ‘Force Majeure’ statements in the third quarter of 2022: The PVC industry is continuously confronted with several crisis – partly beginning to endanger existences in the plastics converting industry in Europe. The plastics converting industry is hard hit by the
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Sorting, washing and grinding are vital elements in the processing of PET bottles. PETplanet insider visited Sorema the specialist company in washing and mechanical recycling plants, whose latest development is providing tailored water treatment equipment to reduce recycling plant needs. In Italy, PETplanet spoke to Ottavio Previero, Sales and Marketing Manager.
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Interview with Amelia Dales, Commercial Director, Packamama The original impetus behind Garçon Wines was the company’s focus on e-commerce friendly wine bottles. The result was the compact bottle shape, which is flat enough to be put through a letter box, and its PET format, which is light and robust enough for
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Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL) announced the official opening of its PETValue bottle-to-bottle recycling plant in the Philippines, in partnership with Coca-Cola Beverages Philippines – the bottling arm of Coca-Cola in the country. The plant is IVL’s latest recycled PET facility as the global integrated petrochemicals company builds on its
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On 17 October 2022, Vanessa Malena, previously Chief Operations Officer (COO) of Engel Machinery Inc. in York, Pennsylvania, will take over as President of the North American headquarters of the Austrian injection moulding machine manufacturer and system solutions supplier Engel. Vanessa Malena started at Engel North America in 2017 as Key
Read moreGneuss and Colines have worked together to offer manufacturers of stretch film the possibility of using recycled polymer. Colines offers a special, proven cast & blown film extrusion process for handling recycled material, with the help of the Gneuss RSFgenius Melt Filtration System from Gneuss. Colines has already proven this process
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