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Global functional additive sales for plastic packaging expected to increase to $2.3 billion

15 May 202015 May 2020 Gabriele Kosmehl 1636 Views 3 min read

Multinational provider of testing, consulting, information, and compliance services Smithers forecasts global functional additive sales for plastic packaging and global barrier coatings to increase. Global functional additive sales for plastic packaging are forecast to grow during 2020–25 at an annual average rate of 5.3% to approximately $2.3 billion from $1.7 billion

With SGR, SGT materialises its commitments to sustainable development

14 May 202012 May 2020 Gabriele Kosmehl 2022 Views 2 min read

Last November, Société Générale des Techniques (SGT) inaugurated its new site at Chalon-Sur-Saône in the east of France, which includes a preforms manufacturing plant (the Group’s 5th) and a plastics recycling unit: the SGR. The recycled PET produced by this new unit has been baptised CIRPET.The SGR unit has been up

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Management change at Sumitomo (SHI) Demag Hungary

13 May 202011 May 2020 Heike Fischer 2117 Views 1 min read

With immediate effect, Jozsef Nemes has been appointed as the new Managing Director of Sumitomo (SHI) Demag Plastics Machinery Hungária Kft. He succeeds Andras Borszeki, who headed up the Group’s Hungarian subsidiary since its formation in 2015. A trained mechanical engineer, Nemes recently moved from an Austrian injection moulding machine manufacturer

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Review: rPET in stretch blow moulded bottles

12 May 20203 Jul 2020 PP-Admin 10602 Views 3 min read

Online conference on May 28, 2020, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. CEST Target group: Managers for recyclers, converters and bottlers with stretch blow moulding machines The first PETinar organised by PETplanet Insider took place on the 28th of May 2020. PETplanet invited three specialists to discuss the topic of manufacturing and

Companies Materials News Recycling

Thermoforming meets fiber

12 May 202011 May 2020 Heike Fischer 2059 Views 2 min read

Kiefel GmbH, Freilassing, is a technology partner in various domains of the plastics and packaging industry, where it supports customers in the development of sustainable materials and products. In addition to classic recyclable plastic, Kiefel systems processes recycled (e.g. rPET) or bio-based materials (e.g. PLA). “More and more customers are asking

Recycling

Automated plant for Dansk Retursystem

11 May 20208 May 2020 Gabriele Kosmehl 1289 Views 2 min read

Stadler has completed commissioning of a new beverage packaging sorting plant it designed and built for Dansk Retursystem in Taastrup, Denmark. The inauguration ceremony of the plant, held on 10 March, was hosted by Dansk Retursystem Chief Executive Officer Lars Krejberg Petersen and attended by guests of honor Frederick, Crown Prince

Bottles / Bottle Making Materials

PET-compatible copolyesters

8 May 20206 May 2020 Gabriele Kosmehl 2719 Views 1 min read

In a response to the market request for sustainable packaging, SK Chemicals of South Korea is introducing a new product range of Ecotria PET-compatible copolyesters that contain 30% of post-consumer recycled material. The new products can be used in most of the processes in which PETG and PCTG copolyesters are currently

Bottles / Bottle Making Companies

ABC Compressors: expanding business in Eastern Europe

7 May 20206 May 2020 Gabriele Kosmehl 2789 Views 1 min read

With the aim of establishing and expanding business, ABC compressors has established 6 new services in Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Croatia, Bulgaria and Hungary in the last two years. Thus, in order to be much closer to the final client and to assure the quickest service, all of them have a significant

Bottles / Bottle Making Bottling / Filling Inspection

Digital twin: KHS lowers fault-related costs with virtual machine commissioning

6 May 20205 May 2020 Gabriele Kosmehl 4055 Views 3 min read

In the future the digital twin will become a key component of industrial production. KHS already uses models to virtually map the machine and conveyor system commissioning process. With the help of smart, digital technologies KHS is networking and automating production processes step by step so that machines, products and complete

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Multi-Color Corporation has signed the New Plastics Economy Global Commitment Statement

5 May 20204 May 2020 Heike Fischer 2493 Views 1 min read

The New Plastics Economy Global Commitment Statement includes goals about the actions that signatory companies will take to drive toward a circular economy. These approaches include redesign to eliminate problematic and unnecessary plastic as well as innovation to ensure that plastic is reusable, recyclable, or compostable. There have been more than

Bottles / Bottle Making Packaging / Palletising

Meeting co-packer demands of ecommerce-ready packaging

4 May 20208 May 2020 Gabriele Kosmehl 2323 Views 1 min read

Amcor has designed a family of stock PET bottles that helps co-packers meet the demanding requirements for ecommerce-ready packaging. OmniPack PET bottles are claimed to increase capacity and reduce downtime because they have the same diameter with the same finish – only the height changes to accommodate the varying fill volumes.