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The largest PET recycling plant in the country is now up and running and will substantially reduce Australia’s plastic waste by recycling the equivalent of around 1 billion PET beverage bottles each year. The $45 million plant in Albury-Wodonga has boosted regional jobs and is helping to build a domestic circular
Read moreUniloy Inc., a blow moulding machine and mould technology company serving the global plastics processing industry, announced its purchase of certain assets of the now defunct Amsler Equipment Inc. of Vaughn, Ontario, Canada. Uniloy, Inc. purchased certain assets from the Receiver and Trustee in the bankruptcy of Niigon Machines, Ltd., who
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Carlos Quintero is Sacmi Beverage’s new Sales Director for the American market, including four offices in the United States, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina. Closeness to the customer, cohesiveness and shared goals throughout the entire team: this is the roadmap set out by Quintero, who takes on the new role after 22
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Judging Panel Announced for 2022 Awards – Organisers of the Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2022 have extended the entry deadline for all seven award categories until Friday 18 March 2022. To complete your online #PRAE2022 award entry, simply visit: https://www.prseventeurope.com/prse2022/en/page/awards-2022. The judging panel for the 2022 awards has also been revealed.
Read moreEvergreen, one of North America’s three largest producers of food grade rPET, has announced that it will be installing artificial intelligence-enabled bottle sorting robotics at its Albany, New York plastics recycling and rPET manufacturing facility. When the installation is completed in mid 2022, Evergreen will have deployed 15 high-speed, highly accurate
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The East Midlands of England has something of a cluster of businesses involved with packaging. We visited Measom Freer near Leicester just a few days before meeting Paccor at its site near Mansfield, near Nottingham, and its near-neighbour, R&D/Leverage, who we have known and encountered over many years and in many
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MORE – Monitoring Recyclates for Europe – the EU harmonised digital platform to monitor the uptake of recycled polymers into products, is fully operational with its 2022 survey updated, ready to be used again by converters since the 3rd March 2022. After another successful collection year and the recent acceptance as
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Kirin Beverage Company Limited has renewed Kirin Nama-tea, including the contents, container and package design, and will launch the renewed product nationwide on Tuesday 26 April. The container and package design of Kirin Namacha Houjisencha will also be renewed. In addition, for the 555ml Kirin Nama-ocha, which is exclusively sold in
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“Engel has a strong presence in Eastern Europe, and with the acquisition of TMA is taking the next step for further growth in the region,” says Dr Stefan Engleder, CEO of the Engel Group. The two companies have already cooperated closely for many years on numerous customer projects. One regional focus
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The UK has a history of bright, innovative startups that can change the landscape and evolve into commercial behemoths, from Lever Brothers – which merged with The Netherlands’ Margarine Unie and became Unilever – through Cadbury’s, the chocolate manufacturer; earthmoving equipment company JCB; and Sinclair Computers, which brought home computing to
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FlexBlow, the manufacturer of flexible stretch blow moulding machines, introduces a new product line that expands companies’ range of packaging solutions from two-stage to single-stage SBM market segment. With the launch of Special Preforms, FlexBlow upscaled its’ complete solutions to the next level – from choosing the material, additives and developing custom
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