Evergreen to install AI-enabled sorting robotics in third recycling, rPET manufacturing plant

Evergreen, 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

Read more

Food and drink, tools and packaging

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

Read more

Relaunch of Kirin green tea PET bottles

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

Read more

A family affair

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

Read more

FlexBlow steps into single-stage stretch blow moulding industry

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

Read more

Klӧckner Pentaplast: rPET/PET capacity expansion

Klöckner Pentaplast, a global leader in recycled content products and high-barrier protective packaging, has announced its intention to expand its post-consumer recycled content (PCR) PET capacity in North America with a significant investment to further grow its sustainable innovation offering in consumer health, pharmaceutical, and food packaging markets. The company states

Read more

European mechanical plastics recycling exceeded 8 million tonnes in 2021 despite feedstock insecurities caused by Covid-19 slowdown

The waste plastics value chain is a complex and dynamic sector, with an evolving operating environment. New legislation and targets for the recycling of plastics and the use of recyclate are changing the way the whole plastics industry must operate. The mechanical plastics recycling industry, therefore, has become the focal point

Read more

Carbios to build in France its first-of-a-kind manufacturing plant for fully bio-recycled PET in partnership with Indorama Ventures

Carbios (Euronext Growth Paris: ALCRB), developing enzymatic solutions dedicated to the end-of-life of plastic and textile polymers and Indorama Ventures (Bloomberg ticker: IVL.TB), a leading PET manufacturer, jointly announce a collaboration to build a manufacturing plant operating Carbios’ PET bio-recycling technology at Indorama Ventures’ PET production site in France (Longlaville, Meurthe-et-Moselle).

Read more
X