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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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Molson Coors Beverage Company has been providing consumers worldwide with fine and tasty beers for 200 years now. To further strengthen its presence on the Bulgarian market, the group decided to give a modern twist to its local beer brands by revamping their PET packaging and partnered with Competek for the
Read moreKlöckner 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
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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
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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 moreThe Mexican conglomerate Alfa SAB de CV, whose portfolio includes the subsidiaries Alpek, Sigma, Axtel and Newpek, published the results of Alpek’s performance during the fourth quarter of 2021 on 16 February. In the report, Alfa looks back on an overall successful year to which Alpek (plastic materials, chemicals production with
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In 2023 Milliken & Company’s ColorDirection Bold Unity presents a collection of connected tones powerful in impact and vulnerable in expression, colours that can sing gentle harmonies or raise the roof with vibrancy. The new 2023 collection is the work of thought-leaders and trend-watchers in the worlds of textiles, packaging, fashion,
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Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL), the world’s largest producer of recycled PET for beverage bottles, completed a deal for an 85% equity stake in Czech Republic-based PET plastic recycler, UCY Polymers CZ s.r.o. (UCY), boosting the country and Europe’s plastic collection and recycling ambitions. As a result of the investment,
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In line with incoming packaging tax regulation in the UK to be introduced in April 2022, Paccor’s production team in Mansfield, UK, are now offering caps with a minimum 30% rHDPE (recycled high density polyethylene). This created a challenge due to the different nature of PCR material compared to virgin polymer
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Bericap, manufacturerr of plastic and aluminium closures, has received the TOP 100 award as one of the innovative small and medium-sized enterprises in Germany in 2022. The TOP 100 seal of approval underlines the company’s pioneering role in the closure technology segment. An award in the category of ‘Chemicals/Plastic’ went to
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