Pack Expo International concluded at McCormick Place in Chicago, drawing a total attendance of 77,500 people, including 48,000 attendees and 29,500 exhibitor personnel. This year, international attendance rose by 19% compared to the previous show in 2022. Organised by PMMI, the Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, the show occupied 1.32
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Heuft – Hall 8 | Booth 104 The Heuft FinalView II LBL makes label inspection more adaptive. New types and designs can now be taught in within a short time. This is good for production quality and also increases the availability and overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) of entire filling plants at
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SMI – Hall 7A | Booth 503 SMI will showcase an ACP 22 S Ergon case packer to pack 33 cl glass bottles in cardboard case in the 4×3 format, with adhesive tape closure. The cardboard case is a good solution to create a multipack and guarantees a resistant packaging that can
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PET Technologies – Hall 7 | Booth 646 t is difficult to overestimate the role of the blow mould in making a PET bottle shine as if it were glass. And these are the moulds PET Technologies will bring to BrauBeviale. PET Technologies’ manufacturing facilities span 9,000 m² and include over
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Bericap, a leading manufacturer of plastic and aluminium closures, has announced an agreement to acquire the 50% stake in Bericap North America (BCNA) held to date by Amcor Rigid Packaging. This means that family-owned global manufacturing company Bericap will acquire 100 per cent of the shares in BCNA. The joint venture,
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Two years ago, Alpek Polyester acquired OCTAL, the largest PET resin and PET sheet manufacturer in the GCC, thus marking its expansion into global markets beyond the Americas and Europe. We visited the plant in Salalah and discussed bottle grade PET resin, sheet production, chemical recycling, and the Gulf market in
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PET Day 2024 Rain or shine, we came back to Artimino, Florence, Italy, for the 22nd PET Day. This 2024 edition was unfortunately, for the very first time, under a steady rain throughout the event, but that did not discourage the exclusive audience to be present at the iconic Villa Medicea.
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The packaging industry is the largest consumer of PET resins in the region, driven by the rise in single-person households and busy lifestyles, which have boosted the demand for convenient, prepackaged, and functional food products. North America stands as one of the leading markets in the global packaging industry. In Mexico,
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A recent study by GVM Gesellschaft für Verpackungsmarktforschung mbH reports record levels of recycled PET usage in bottle production and high recycling rates in Germany. Meanwhile, material consumption has decreased due to optimised bottle weights. Despite the higher costs of rPET, its usage continues to rise, with German preform and bottle
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Over 180 participants from 25 nations accepted the invitation from Coperion and Herbold Meckesheim to attend the Recycling Days in the newly opened Recycling Innovation Center in Weingarten, Germany, on November 6 and 7, 2024. In keeping with the theme of “Experience A New Dimension of Plastics Recycling,” the two-day conference
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On October 23, the new factory of AS Iterum (formerly PET Baltija) was opened in Olaine – one of the largest in Northern Europe with a planned processing capacity of 80,000 t/a, or about 30% more than it was possible to provide at the company’s previous production facility in Jelgava. Iterum
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