AptarGroup, Inc. (NYSE: ATR), a global leader in dispensing, drug delivery and active packaging solutions, and Nippon Closures Co., Ltd. (NCC), a leading company in Japan for bottle closures, announced that they have entered into an exclusive partnership to cross-license technology for tethered beverage closures. This is the first cross-license, registered
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Husky, Hall 13, Booth A61 Focused on a wide range of plastic applications within a variety of markets, including food and beverage packaging, general plastic packaging, medical, automotive, and home, beauty and personal care, Husky will demonstrate its injection moulding solutions helping their customers to find ways to better respond to
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United Caps, an international manufacturer of caps and closures,has been honoured with an IMDA award for Best Technical Achievement: Holographic Closure Technologies, for a holographic in-mould label jointly developed with Morphotonix, a high-tech brand protection company. The In-Mould Decorating Association (IMDA) is a trade association representing moulders, label printers, material suppliers,
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Pretium Packaging, a North American manufacturer of plastic containers and closures, has made a $2 million dollar investment in new reheat stretch polyethylene terephthalate (PET) blow moulding equipment and infrastructure for its Troy, Alabama manufacturing plant. The equipment is capable of producing both cold- and hot-fill PET containers to support the
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Chemical sterilisation of caps can be an issue. It often employs work at high temperatures that can distort the cap. To eliminate these issues, Serac offers an alternative to chemical sterilisation. Serac’s new BluStream is a low-energy e-beam treatment that can be administered at room temperature. It’s capable of ensuring a
Read moreThe 3rd edition of Blow Moulding (Cologne, June 24-26) will bring together the entire supply chain: brand owners, retailers, packaging companies, blow-moulders, preform manufacturers, suppliers of ancillary components such as labels, caps and closures, handles and grips, machinery manufacturers, raw material and additive suppliers, product and mould designers, testing, certification and
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Product development plays a key role within the strategies of leading companies worldwide. Besides aspects regarding the increase of efficiency within the manufacturing process, cost reduction and market expansion, product features that focus on consumer convenience and sustainability are in the center of interest. The family-owned company Bericap constantly reviews how
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A new report from industry consultants, AMI Consulting published in June 2019 contextualises the new industry challenges and quantifies the impact of the changing regulations over demand: Sustainability is the key driver in the European plastic caps and closures industry; market development initiatives have so far been supported by the three
Read moreBericap, a supplier of high value added plastic caps and closures for food, beverage, pharmaceutical, and industrial markets, and Thin Film Electronics ASA, the global leader in near field communications (NFC) solutions, have signed a Letter of Intent for an exclusive joint partnership to develop fully integrated digital authentication solutions for
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At the end of march Negri Bossi UK organised an Open house in its headquarters in Rugby. The focus of the Open House was a Nova eT 130 running an 8 impression cap tool demonstrating using mould open and core movement in parallel. The Nova eT is a total electric machine
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SWITEK Hall 12.1 Booth R21 Switek Technology Automation Co., Ltd. has been working with a number of customers to improve productivity through the automation of closure manufacture, inspection, sorting and packing. It recently helped the closure production operations of DongPengTeYing, producer of the number two (after Red Bull) energy drink in
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