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Packaging specialist Alpla opens new plant in Thailand – Chachoengsao site includes manufacturing, product development and design centre

13 Feb 2025 Heike Fischer

Alpla is expanding in the fast-growing Asia-Pacific region and opening a second location in Thailand. The modern plant in Chachoengsao, near Bangkok, combines all production technologies, technical centre and STUDIOa, the one-stop-shop for design, on a 24,000 square metre site. The global packaging and recycling specialist is thus increasing capacities, expanding

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NAPCOR appoints Srinivasan “Shankar” Prabhushankar as new Technical Director

11 Feb 2025 Heike Fischer

The National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR) is pleased to announce the appointment of Srinivasan “Shankar” Prabhushankar as its new Technical Director, effective February 3, 2025. Shankar, who recently retired from Indorama Ventures after 22 years with the company, brings a wealth of experience in the PET (polyethylene terephthalate) plastic

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Messe München strengthens activities in India, Middle East and Africa – Bhupinder Singh is appointed President IMEA

27 Jan 2025 Heike Fischer

Messe München is strengthening its strategic focus on the Indian, Middle Eastern and African regions by combining responsibility for this area into “IMEA” (India, Middle East, Africa). Bhupinder Singh assumed the pivotal position of President IMEA on January 1, 2025. Since his appointment in 2016 as the CEO of Messe München

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NGR achieves positive scientific opinion by EFSA for their Liquid State Polycondensation (LSP) – Process

23 Jan 2025 Heike Fischer

Next Generation Recyclingmaschinen GmbH (NGR) is proud to announce a significant achievement: the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has issued a positive Scientific Opinion for NGR´s Liquid State Polycondensation (LSP)- Process for advanced PET Recycling. LSP becomes the first recycling process to complete evaluation under the updated regulation (EU) 2022/1616. The

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2024: PET to PET recycled 1.25 billion bottles

21 Jan 2025 Heike Fischer

PET to PET Recycling Österreich GmbH, based in Müllendorf, Burgenland, Austria, takes stock for the year 2024: 31,354 tonnes of PET material – the equivalent of 1.25 billion PET beverage bottles – were successfully recycled in Austria. This represents a slight decrease of -2.8% compared to the previous year (2023: 32,283

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Alpla on a growth trajectory with a successful 2024 financial year

15 Jan 2025 Heike Fischer

Packaging and recycling specialist increases turnover to 4.9 billion euros – Alpla continued its growth trajectory in 2024 with new products, plants, business areas, acquisitions and a focus on training skilled workers. The international packaging and recycling specialist increased its turnover from 4.7 to 4.9 billion euros and grew its workforce

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Versatile learning options in KHS Campus

14 Jan 2025 Heike Fischer

Entertaining instruction courses at Coca-Cola Mannheim with the Virtual Training Center – If work on a production line is easy to perform, this reduces the number of errors and thus downtime. In order to build up the expertise of its operators and maintenance personnel more quickly and more sustainably, the Coca-Cola

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BASF and research partners collaborate to optimise mechanical recycling of plastics

10 Jan 2025 Heike Fischer

BASF has teamed up with Endress+Hauser and TechnoCompound as well as the Universities of Bayreuth and Jena to study how the mechanical recycling of plastics can be improved. With funding from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the SpecReK project aims to reliably and precisely identify the composition

Bottles / Bottle Making Inspection News

ALPS Inspection introduces BottleStop multi-head leak tester

8 Jan 2025 Heike Fischer

ALPS Inspection,is a global manufacturer of non-destructive, in-line leak inspection equipment for empty plastic containers of all sizes, shapes, and materials. ALPS Inspection proudly announces the launch of its new BottleStop tester. Designed to meet the evolving needs of blow moulding manufacturers, BottleStop offers unmatched versatility and reliability in a streamlined,

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Focusing expertise in the PET sector – New responsibilities at Otto Hofstetter AG and Otto Systems

7 Jan 2025 Heike Fischer

Effective from 1 January 2025, Reto Bamert, currently Head of Global Sales at Otto Systems, will take over as Head of the PET Division at Otto Hofstetter AG. He will succeed Stefan Zatti, who has held the position on an interim basis and will now return to focusing on his roles

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Design Guidelines for PET bottles in contact with non-food products

7 Jan 2025 Heike Fischer

EPBP strongly encourages the use of the EPBP Design for Recycling guidelines, also for PET bottles that are in contact with non-food products, such as home and personal care products, to further improve the ability to recycle PET bottles in closed loop. Moreover, EPBP acknowledges that food grade recycled PET, manufactured