Amcor Rigid Plastics expands its relationship with long-time customer Campbell Soup Co. with the opening of an on-site bottle manufacturing operation in Paris, Texas, USA. Amcor’s new in-line operation is expected to produce approximately 50 million hot-fillable PET bottles each year. Amcor invested $7 million to re-purpose 6,000 sq ft of
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April 26, 2017 R&D/Leverage, headquartered in Lee’s Summit, MO, announced the promotion of Mike Stiles to CEO. Stiles joined the company in 2000 as an Account Manager and was promoted to Director of Sales in 2015. He has been instrumental in helping to grow R&D/Leverage to a globally recognised manufacturer of
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Gebo Cermex, part of the Sidel Group and a leader in packaging line engineering solutions, is introducing its latest advanced performance systems and packaging line solutions at Interpack 2017 (4-10 May). On booth C47, hall 13, the company is demonstrating its portfolio for the beverage and food, home and personal care
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At the 5th Duxes Dairy China Summit next week, PolyOne will be presenting an update for its high-performance light blocking technology for liquid dairy packaging. Lactra SX light blocking additive, which is marketed by PolyOne’s ColorMatrix business, protects liquid dairy products packaged in mono-layer PET bottles from degrading due to light
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The Engel Group, headquartered in Schwertberg, Austria, has appointed Markus Richter as chief financial officer (CFO) with effect from May 1st, 2017. He succeeds Klaus Siegmund, who left Engel in March. Markus Richter has more than 25 years of experience in commercial management roles in globally successful companies in the industrial,
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The “House of Krones” will be built at interpack in Düsseldorf virtually at least. It will constitute the five core sections of Krones AG: digitisation as the roof and superstructure, process, filling and packaging technologies, plus intralogistics, as the functional premises, and Lifecycle Service as the base, the solid foundation. In
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Following the successful trade fairs in 2015 and 2016, the Swiss firm company Otto Hofstetter AG is present with its own booth. Otto Hofstetter AG will show customers the complete portfolio of high quality injection moulds in hall E4.2 booth E45. Besides the well-known high quality injection moulds, Otto Hofstetter AG
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Time is simply flying by; I have scarcely arrived in Kuala Lumpur, when I am already packing my bags for the return flight from Singapore. Over a little more than a week I have visited bottlers from the north of the country to the south. All are family-owned businesses, with fathers
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Sacmi will host the best the group has to offer the closures industry, such as the new CCM24CS compression press, being showcased for the first time on this market. Key improvements to mechanics, hydraulics and automation have given the new 24-head version of the press higher output (cycle time 1.44sec), without
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Thanks to a 5% increase in turnover the consolidated sales of the Erema Group reached EUR 138 million in the 2016/17 financial year. The Group’s two youngest sister companies Pure Loop and Umac recorded a strong turnover result shortly after being founded. “A key success factor in the positive turnover result
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At Interpack the labelling machine manufacturer Gernep presents the latest developments of its rotary labelling machines. To meet all decoration demands in different industries, the rotary labelling machine Gernep Soluta, in the optimised control and security design, is for self adhesive labelling. Gernep Labetta is specialised in universal cold glue labelling
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