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PETplanet Insider talked with Exhibition Director Petra Westphal for her assessment of this special trade fair year and specifically of Drinktec 2022. Does the beverage and liquid food industry also have Olympic aspirations? Manufacturers of beverages and liquid food and machine manufacturers have long since recognised the potential. Digitalisation and digital
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Röders Tec Hall C5 – Booth 230 Reducing energy consumption is a huge topic for the beverage industry and the German mould manufacturer. Röders Tec has introduced a new base technology for reducing blowing pressure recently. The “low pressure” (LP) base design is combining a unique design with additional venting solutions
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KHS Group Hall B4 – Booth 336 The KHS Group, an international manufacturer of filling and packaging equipment focusing on the beverage and liquid food sectors will highlight two PET relevant technologies. Specialising in the single-serve water segment, the InnoPET TriBlock Aqua M combines three modules into one unit. The further
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Newtec Labelling Hall C6 – Booth 231 Newtec Labelling will exhibit a full range of labelling machines: Adhesive Cold Glue, Hot Melt and Rollfed. The adhesive labelling machine has the adhesive group, intentionally oversize, to guarantee a maximum precision during the application of the labels on the bottle and it will
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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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