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Online conference March 24, 2:00 – 3:00 pm CET The sixth PETinar organised by PETplanet Insider took place on March 24, 2022. PETplanet invited three companies to talk about Tethered Caps. Summary Mark Smith from Universal Closures spoke about his experience in developing the right Tethered Closures solution for specific applications.
Read moreIndustrial Physics Inc. announced that it has acquired Steinfurth, a specialist in producing quality control instruments and solutions for the beverage, food, and pharmaceutical industries. For more than 80 years, German based organisation Steinfurth has been developing and producing CO2 measuring instruments, logger systems, carbonation systems, laboratory shakers, beer analysis instruments,
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Recently, in the Chinese province of Fujian, a new Sorema rPET line with a production capacity of 9,000 kg/h of flakes became fully operational and a second rPET line will be operational in the coming months. Both lines are designed to achieve high quality of rPET flakes to manufacture polyester monofilaments
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Environmental services provider PreZero commissioned Stadler, the globally active German company specialised in the planning, production and assembly of turnkey recycling and sorting plants, to design and install a state-of-the-art light packaging sorting facility in Eitting, Germany. The new facility is capable of sorting the packaging fractions by colour and, very
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China is a main player in the PET market. This applies not only to production but also to demand. A circumstance that, in the current situation with rising energy and raw material prices, is raising worry lines on the foreheads of many processors from abroad: supplies from the Far East are
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China’s consumers are increasingly demanding healthy drinks in sustainable packaging As a company that is active in moulds and services for bottles, with a considerable R&D department, Foshan-based GDXL has a good overview of the latest market requirements. In our interview, they explain current trends and developments in the Chinese market
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Three questions for Boretech Group: What are new projects of Boretech? In 2022, the subsidiary of Boretech Group in Taiwan introduced the latest EC process technology of the PET bottle recycling system developed by Boretech. The EC process has been completed development in 2021, it is the first time to be
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Three questions for Sorema: 1) Are you exhibiting at the Chinaplas fair? What innovations will your company be presenting? Yes, Previero – Sorema is going to be present also this year at Chinaplas, booth Nr. F71, Hall 2.1. Sorema will present its new developments in the mechanical recycling of plastics (PET,
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Three questions for And&OR: 1) Are you exhibiting at the Chinaplas fair? What innovations will your company be presenting? Yes, And&Or will be present at booth C07, Hall 4.1. The company exhibits its lateral handle applicator for PET bottles. It is an equipment that automatically inserts handles in PET bottles. 2)
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Three questions for SMI: 1) Are you exhibiting at the Chinaplas fair? What innovations will your company be presenting? We will not exhibit in 2022, but we will probably attend the event and take into consideration a presence for future editions. 2) How important is the Chinese market for you? Are
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by Paul Niedl, Commercial Head of Starlinger recycling technology 1) Are you exhibiting at the Chinaplas fair? What innovations will your company be presenting? One of the main topics Starlinger will focus on at this year‘s Chinaplas fair is polyester fibre recycling. We will present various options for IV increase and
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