Two of The Coca-Cola Company’s biggest brands in North America are taking further steps to support a circular economy for plastic packaging. Dasani is rolling out bottles made from 100% recycled PET plastic (excluding caps and labels), and Sprite is transitioning from green to clear plastic to increase the material’s likelihood
Read MoreHusky Technologies announced the launch of a second-generation control algorithm for its line of Altanium mould controllers. The Advanced Reasoning Technology (ART 2.0) software is claimed to deliver greater speed, accuracy, precision, and repeatability compared to today’s existing temperature control systems. ART 2.0 incorporates advanced auto-tuning and heat-up strategies which deliver higher
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Kirin Beverage Company, in cooperation with Tobu Railway Company, will start horizontal ‘bottle-to-bottle’ recycling, in which used PET bottles are collected and recycled into PET bottles, at 33 Tobu Tojo Line stations from 3 August. In Japan, used PET bottles are often recycled for a wide range of uses after they
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After a pandemic-related decline last year, PET to PET Recycling Österreich GmbH in Müllendorf, Burgenland, has drawn a successful interim balance for 2022 with a new record value: 15,131 tonnes of PET beverage bottles were kept in the resource cycle – this corresponds to an increase of 5.3% compared to the
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Promec Group Hall A6 – Booth 330 The Promec Group with the Promec, Blowtec and Melegari Technology brands, offers a range of machines and equipment for bottling, beverage & food, both as a diversification of products and sectors. Promec will be highlighting its solutions for the rinsing and sterilisation of all
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Preform manufacturer SGT has developed, in partnership with colouring specialist Avient, a new single layer dairy preform with a very low mineral content (less than 4%). Intended for the dairy products market, this 38 mm neck preform incorporates a new additive technology called ColorMatrix Lactra Four One Zero which is claimed
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Petainer Hall C5 – Booth 259 Petainer will be showcasing its range of sustainable PET packaging solutions. In bulk beverage dispensing, the company shows off its most advanced keg to date, the one-way Hybrid Keg as well as the refillable PET water cooler bottle. In PET bottles, Petainer puts refillable bottles
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Krones Hall B6 – Booth 100 How can mankind hold back climate change? How can the world’s population be fed? And how do we handle packaging materials responsibly? These issues have a direct impact on all social classes. Krones has taken all these aspects fully on board and claimes that it
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Sipa Hall A4 – Booth 304 Sipa will be showing its expertise in PET technology: container design and engineering, state-of-the-art preform injection capability, blowing and filling systems, sustainable solutions based on reduced consumption of utilities and virgin fossil-based materials which increased use of post-consumer recyclate. Focus points will be line integration,
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Petform Hall C5 – Booth 217 Petform has developed a new PET hot runner system allowing for an ultra-compact vertical mould pitch of 40 mm. Many components remain unchanged from previous generations, allowing common hot runner component inventory. On the cold half, Petform has developed a robust mould stack design for 28
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AGR Hall C5 – Booth 121 Agr will be displaying several new product developments as well as an array of quality management and process control equipment for beverage containers. Processing bottles using virgin material is challenging enough. However, introducing the variability associated with rPET makes production even more difficult. Agr’s Process
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