In mid-March 2019, the injection moulding machine manufacturer Engel Austria was one of the first plastic machine manufacturers to sign the New Plastics Economy Global Commitment of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. The aim of the initiative is to create a circular economy. In cooperation with more than 350 other companies, universities
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Alpla, Inc., a global manufacturer of rigid plastic packaging for a wide range of consumer products, announced the appointment of Dr Andreas Reger as its General Manager, responsible for all activity at the US unit of seventeen manufacturing operations. Andreas Reger comes to Alpla with 27 years of business unit leadership
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PTI, a global leader in plastic packaging development, has named Sumit Mukherjee, chief technology officer (CTO). Mukherjee has been with PTI for the past 25 years, including positions as vice president, advanced engineering services and director, computer aided engineering and simulation. In his new capacity as CTO, Mukherjee will be leading
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Dr Johannes-Thomas Grobe is to be the new head of Sales and Service at KHS GmbH. This has now been confirmed by the company’s supervisory board. The 53-year-old shall be moving from Dürr Systems AG, a machine and systems manufacturer for the automobile industry, to the Dortmund systems supplier. Dr Grobe
Read MoreDS Smith announced it has reached agreement to sell its Plastics division to Olympus Partners for an enterprise value of $585 million, (approximately €519 million). The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions including regulatory approvals, with completion expected to take place in the second half of this calendar year. The
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M&H Plastics has developed a technique that allows a brand to add a series of ridges inside the bottle which creates a straight line or spiral effect inside the mould of the bottles. Bottles treated to the spiral effect have the choice of creating the ridges vertical or allow the ridges
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The Tetra Laval Group Board has appointed Ms Monica Gimre, President & CEO of Sidel Group effective July 1, 2019. The appointment follows the decision by Mr Sam Strömerstén to retire from his position after more than three years as President & CEO and 36 years with the Tetra Laval Group.
Read MoreRing Container Technologies, a leader in the plastic container manufacturing industry, announced the launch of its patent-pending, proprietary technology, BarrierGuard. The company is disrupting the traditional balance of protection and value with the initial application of this technology, BarrierGuard OxygenSmart. Ring currently produces bottles using BarrierGuard OxygenSmart at its newest plant,
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Carbios, a company pioneering new, bioindustrial solutions to reinvent the lifecycle of plastic and textile polymers, announced it has successfully produced the first PET bottles made with 100% Purified Terephthalic Acid (rPTA), through the enzymatic biorecycling of plastic waste. The company states that this milestone is a world-first, and confirms the
Read MoreSustainable technology company Anellotech and its joint development partners IFPEN and Axens have processed renewably-sourced aromatics made at Anellotech’s TCat- 8 pilot plant to successfully recover high-purity bio-based paraxylene – a key component for making 100% biobased PET bottles a reality. Anellotech, IFPEN and Axens will now purify additional paraxylene to
Read MoreThe PET and rPET market has seen considerable change in the past year and the industry is looking for strategies to grow its businesses. This year’s PET Value Chain Conference held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, from March 11-13 will provide insights into the rising topics that are important for business strategy.
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