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Pretium Packaging is pioneering a new innovation approach for private label and independent brand companies at its new Pretium Innovation Center in Aurora, Illinois, USA. The center, which is housed in an existing Pretium manufacturing facility, has been thoughtfully designed with separate rooms, each dedicated to a different part of the
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Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL), a global chemical producer, is pleased to announce that it has received the Coca-Cola Sustainability Award presented at Coca-Cola’s Supplier Summit 2019 in Atlanta, Georgia U.S.A earlier this month. The Sustainability Award was given to Indorama Ventures and its FuTuRePET Single Pellet Sustainability Solution (SPSS),
Read moreOnline for a few weeks now, the new Demo e-Shop is offering customers solutions that have already been verified and tested by specialised technicians and, therefore, ready to be industrialised on all bottling and packaging lines, in a very short time. The company has selected a series of bottle and container
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Here we are at the next stage of our Indian Road Trip in Kolkata, covering Eastern India, the fastest growing PET region in India. First we visit leading edible oil producer Emami Agrotech and learn that PET has not taken over as the leading packaging material for edible oil yet. This
Read moreThe Alba Group, a leading recycling and environmental services and raw materials providers, is expanding its engagement in Asia. In Tokyo, as part of the Japan trip of the Governing Mayor of Berlin, Michael Müller, the company signed a cooperation agreement for the construction and operation of a recycling plant for
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The world’s first Xtreme Renew Flakes to Preform System, which directly produces new, food-grade 100 percent rPET preforms from recycled PET flakes in a single process step, was recently presented with a World Star Packaging Award in Prague. Erema, Sipa, Kyoei Industry and Suntory, four companies involved in developing the system,
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Logoplaste and Tomlinsons announced a long term collaboration in Wrexham, UK. Tomlinsons, one of the UK’s largest family owned dairies, has completed a sale of its bottle blow moulding production facility to Logoplaste, a leading global designer and manufacturer of value-added rigid plastic packaging solutions to a wide range of blue-chip
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As part of its closed-loop philosophy, CarbonLITE Industries, recyclers and producers of post-consumer PET is launching a new category: 100% post-consumer ocean diverted plastic. CarbonLITE’s newest offering will replace virgin materials for food, beverage, and cosmetic applications. These products will have the dual benefit of reducing ocean plastics and the amount
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Chinaplas 2019 opens its doors today at China Import & Export Fair Complex, Pazhou, Guangzhou, PR China, with “Smart Manufacturing”, “Innovative Materials”, and “Green & Circular Solutions” being the show focuses. Building on the success achieved in the last edition of Chinapls in Shanghai, Chinaplas 2019 will continue to showcase innovative
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Sabic introduced its LNP Elcrin iQ portfolio of PBT compounded resins derived from rPET to support the circular economy and help reduce plastic waste. By chemically upcycling consumer-discarded PET (primarily single-use water bottles) into higher-value PBT materials with enhanced properties and suitability for more-durable applications, the company is encouraging the use
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Extrupet Group (Pty) Ltd, South Africa’s first and largest recycling operation for post-consumer PET bottles, has ordered a second Starlinger PET recycling line to meet the country’s growing demand for rPET. Extrupet’s PhoenixPET plant, located in Wadeville just east of Johannesburg, converts more than 2.5 million PET bottles per day into
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