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Maag Group to acquire XanTec Steuerungs- und EDV Technik GmbH to strengthen its digitalisation capabilities

4 Sep 2020 Heike Fischer

Switzerland-based Maag Group, a broadly diversified global solutions provider with integrated and customisable systems in process technology for the polymer, chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical and food industries, has strengthened its digital capabilities by acquiring Germany-based XanTec Steuerungs- und EDV Technik GmbH (“XanTec”). XanTec plans, designs and manufactures advanced industrial control systems that

Amcor joins U.S. plastics pact to advance circular economy goals in the United States

27 Aug 2020 Gabriele Kosmehl

Amcor announced it has joined the U.S. Plastics Pact, a collaborative, solutions-driven initiative to create a path forward to a circular economy for plastics in the United States by 2025. The U.S. Plastics Pact is focused on four ambitious goals intended to drive significant systems change by unifying diverse cross-sector approaches,

Bottles / Bottle Making Bottling / Filling Companies

Krones and innocent are building a CO2-neutral bottling plant

26 Aug 2020 Heike Fischer

Following long years of contract-bottling, the smoothie and juice producer innocent has decided to build the very first bottling plant of its own. Krones won the order for four complete PET bottling lines and the corresponding IT landscape. The paramount consideration for “the blender”, as innocent has christened its greenfield project,

Companies News Recycling

Klӧckner Pentaplast commits to PET capacity expansion for the sustainable consumer and protein packaging market in North America

21 Aug 2020 Heike Fischer

Klöckner Pentaplast (kp), a global leader in recycled content products and high-barrier protective packaging, announces its commitment to expand its post-consumer recycled PET extrusion capacity by 17,500 metric tonnes, which significantly increases it’s capacity for thermoformed recyclable protein trays in North America. The multimillion-dollar capacity expansion will be located among the

Companies Packaging / Palletising

Sumitomo (SHI) Demag reports machine order increase during corona crisis

13 Aug 2020 Heike Fischer

Compared with the first half of 2019, injection moulding machine manufacturer Sumitomo (SHI) Demag is ending the first half of 2020 with a healthy order book. During the first six months, the value of incoming orders for machines produced in Germany rose by almost 25 percent. Cautiously optimistic for the future,

Bottling / Filling Companies News

Primo Water Corporation announced acquisition substantially all of the assets of Mountain Glacier LLC

12 Aug 2020 Heike Fischer

Primo Water Corporation, a leading provider of water direct to consumers and water filtration services in North America and Europe as well as a leading provider of water dispensers, purified bottled water, and self-service refill drinking water in the U.S. and Canada, announced that Primo Water North America, a wholly-owned subsidiary of

Companies Materials News Recycling

New distributor for Holland Colours in South Africa

11 Aug 2020 Heike Fischer

Holland Colours is an independent Dutch manufacturer of colourants and additives for the plastics market with a strong position in the PET packaging- as well as the building & construction market. The products are known for their low dosing levels, natural carriers and excellent characteristics for recycling possibilities. For the last

Companies News

European plastics companies withstand Covid-19 in H1

10 Aug 2020 Heike Fischer

To gain insight into the European plastics industry’s business performance and outlook, PIE – Plastics Information Europe conducted its half-year readers survey from 15 June to 17 July 2020. Across regions and plastics sectors, a surprising number of companies showed economic resilience to the coronavirus. Two thirds of over 140 respondents

Companies Events News Recycling

Erema launches its “ShowHello!” digital event platform

7 Aug 2020 Heike Fischer

As opportunities for face-to-face meetings and customer visits are rare these days, Erema has created its own “ShowHello!” virtual event platform. Visually similar to the company’s stand at the 2019 K trade fair which also incorporated their Circonomic Centre, Erema provides information on the latest recycling technologies, examples of best practice

Companies News Recycling

Towards harmonised certification of plastics packaging recyclability

6 Aug 2020 Heike Fischer

RecyClass Platform recognised first series of Certification Bodies RecyClass welcomes Recoup, SUEZ.Circpack, plastship, Circular Analytics, AIMPLAS, Veolia PET Germany GmbH and REDILO as Certification Bodies who will apply RecyClass method for assessing the recyclability of plastics packaging. Twenty individual auditors within these companies have been granted accreditation to issue RecyClass Recyclability Certifications

Companies News Recycling

Indorama Ventures continues its commitment to PET recycling with new acquisition in Poland

5 Aug 2020 Heike Fischer

Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL), a global chemical producer, announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Industrie Maurizio Peruzzo Polowat spółka z ograniczoną odpowiedzialnością (IMP Polowat), a PET recycling facility in Poland. The acquisition consists of two assets, strategically located in Bielsko-Biala and Leczyca, close to the