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Sacmi Hall B5 – Booth 101, 302-304 Sacmi will be introducing its Smart lines for cap and preform production at Drinktec. The focus will be on the new digital architecture of the machines and processes and the development of new standards that are already compliant with the coming regulations. Sacmi bases
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Fast turnaround and advanced metrology HRC Europe Hall C5 – Booth 220 HRC, based in Győr, Hungary, was founded in 2006 by brothers Árpád and Tamás Horvath. Its core business is servicing of PET hot runners and the supply of high-quality spare parts to the PET packaging industry. Its annual gross
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Solution for a digital factory Newamstar Hall B5 – Booth 327 Newamstar is a global liquid packaging machinery supplier and is committed to providing turn-key solutions for integration of production and storage smart factory. The company has been working with most of the top brands like Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Danone, Unilever, Nice
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New PET-Line 3000 live on stage Netstal Hall C5 – Booth 363 For the first time Netstal will present the new PET-Line 3000 with side-entry producing CSD preforms with a thread for tethered caps. By extending the series, the Swiss company is increasingly establishing itself in the market for preform systems
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PepsiCo Beverages North America (PBNA) acquired nearly 152 acres of land at the Denver High Point development area where it will build a state-of-the-art, 1.2 million square foot manufacturing facility. Set to open in 2023, the new facility is PBNA’s latest project as part of its near 75-year investment in the
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It is shortly before five o’clock on Saturday morning. I, Kay Barton, am sitting in a taxi in Vienna’s third district, waiting outside the house of my colleague Heike Fischers for us to catch an early flight to Barcelona for a tour of Spain and France. With barely four hours sleep,
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Mohinani Group, a third-generation family business group, ordered two Starlinger recoSTAR PET 165 HC iV+ PET bottle-to-bottle recycling lines for its new plants in Ghana and Nigeria. The two new systems will be delivered in 2023 and installed at the Mohinani Group companies Polytank Ghana Ltd. based in Accra, Ghana, and
Read moreSwire Coca-Cola Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Swire Pacific Limited, announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Coca-Cola subsidiaries with bottling businesses in Vietnam and Cambodia. The transactions will be Swire Coca-Cola’s first investments in South East Asia, giving Swire Coca-Cola a leading position in one of the
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Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL), a global chemical company, announced that construction of an integrated PTA-PET plant in Corpus Christi, Texas, will resume in August this year. Corpus Christi Polymers LLC (CCP), a partnership between three companies, is expected to begin production in 2025 and is intended to ensure continued
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Amcor Rigid Packaging (APR) is now offering samples of spirits bottles made of PET that meet the newly approved U.S. Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) sizes. Amcor’s new offering was developed to provide customers with the freedom and flexibility to explore new markets while gauging consumer interest. The six new ARP
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Extended in-person event after pandemic-related postponement The last ProPak in-person edition took place in 2019. Then, in 2020, due to Covid, an online edition took place. The 2021 edition was cancelled entirely and postponed to 2022. Finally, and with a new organiser in charge, Propak Asia 2022 took-off at Bitec Bangna
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