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Combitool AG, located in Bäretswil, Switzerland, and PackSys Global AG, located in Rüti, Switzerland, announced that the two companies have merged. The merged companies will operate under the name of PackSys Global AG. Design, manufacture and service support for Combitool AG and PackSys Global AG machines will continue uninterrupted from Bäretswil
Read moreEuropean Plastics recycling industry is closing production due to the current market developments caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The major problems are the lack of the demand due to the closure of converting plants and the record low prices of virgin plastics as well as the decreased activity globally. This has
Read moreMultinational 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
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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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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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