Market trends. New products, design and technology. These topics will be explored on 27 April 2021 in a live web event organized by SACMI in collaboration with Aptar and McKinsey.

Dow and Lucro Plastecycle, a homegrown Indian recycling company, welcome Marico Limited, one of India’s leading consumer goods companies into a tripartite partnership to introduce Dow’s PCR-based coalition shrink films into its line of consumer products. This alliance enables Dow to work towards…

Cocofloss is out to make the healthy habit of flossing better for Mother Earth with the release of its innovative new floss. While the vast majority of dental floss is made from virgin plastic, the company's newly engineered floss is composed of 85% recycled polyester, sourced from post-consumer PET…

As food and beverage brands increasingly seek to support a circular economy by using more recycled PET (rPET), several aesthetic and processing challenges inherent in rPET are also emerging. To help combat these issues, Avient today announced the launch of ColorMatrix™ Optica™ PET blue toners and…

Avantium has completed the application validation for its plantbased glycols plantMEG™ and plantMPG™ produced in the Ray Technology™ demonstration plant in Delfzijl. Key applications include polymerisation to PEF and PET polyesters and functional fluids used for de-icing and heat transfer. Proving…

Productivity, lightweighting and use of recycled resins: this solution is part of a new approach to TCO (total cost of ownership) that aims to make the packaging industry sustainable and competitive - With the development of the IPS (injection preform system), SACMI has driven innovation in the PET…

Husky Injection Molding Systems, Ltd., a leading industrial technology provider to the plastics processing community, is proud to announce the release of the UltraShotTM Injection System. This innovative, next generation melt delivery and control system eliminates the deficiencies of traditional…

One of the great advantages of SIPA’s XFORM, PET preform injection molding system, is its openness. XFORM stands out from other important brands in the global marketplace in its ability to accept preform tooling from other major producers.

Converting its traditional extra virgin olive oil bottle from glass to plastic allows Morixe Hnos to export its oil across Brazil to meet growing demand. The lightweight polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottle, custom designed by Amcor, replicates the touch and feel of the incumbent glass container…

After working for many years with local converters, Willowton Group (Willowton) in South Africa has increased its production volumes and revolutionised its sunflower oil brand, Sunfoil, thanks to Sidel’s expertise in PET blowing and packaging design.

Blow molding specialist W.MÜLLER has tested two methods for the use of post-consumer recyclates (PCR) in packaging. In the first examined variant, the PCR layer is surrounded by two layers of new material, the second variant is shielded with an internal plasmacoating. Both variants had significantly…

Sidel packaging team in Shanghai, China redesigned the package of Menton flavoured water by integrating youthfulness into its health attribute. The straight-wall lightweight PET bottle, which weighs only 17.85 grams for the 500 ml format, conveys the sense of modernity and is a statement of…

For the first time, the Krones Group presents a multipurpose filler that handles glass bottles, PET containers, and cans – the Barifill Canto. The Italian subsidiary Kosme is responsible for its development, construction, and installation.

A&M Rare’s new, ultramodern bottling plant seems almost surreal in its Armenian mountain setting. This is a place where unspoiled scenery and naturalness are writ large – with regard to both the company’s exclusive products and the production of the same. The company relies on KHS for the plant…

Nongfu Spring’s latest additions to its beverage portfolio required a hyper-flexible and safe aseptic solution, able to process high- and low-acid, still and carbonated products in PET, while enabling impactful bottle designs. With four decades of supporting sensitive beverage producers worldwide,…

Aptar Food + Beverage, a global leader in dispensing solutions for more than 30 years, is pleased to announce a technical collaboration with Claranor, world leader in Pulsed Light packaging sterilization. This synergy highlights the benefits of the FULLCAP® sterilization solution with the Uno sport…

Wisecap® , the newly launched brand in the field of caps & closures, is leading the way in the development of technical solutions suitable for compliance with the new SUP European Directive 2019/904.

With over 650 machines sold in China, SACMI is the country’s absolute leader in cap manufacturing solutions that use compression technology. In April the fair will showcase all the latest, with a sharp focus on efficiency and integrated process control.

The International Technical Centre for Bottling and Related Packaging CETIE is in the process
of defining a new neck standard for carbonated beverages.

UPM Raflatac’s revolutionary Vanish PCR plastic labeling materials for the U.S. market have been independently certified by SCS Global Services as featuring at least 90 percent post-consumer recycled content (PCR) in both the face and liner.

Sidel has reached a new performance and quality milestone in the company's history by delivering its 5,000th labeller for Ting Hsin International Group (Ting Hsin) in China. Having one of the largest installed bases of Sidel labellers in the world, Ting Hsin once again chose Sidel, and its latest…

CCL Label, the global supply chain leader of innovative premium packaging, promotional vehicles and comprehensive label solutions, is introducing an update of their connected packaging label and sleeve technology. The “browser-based” version renders the installation of any extra app on the user’s…

Day after day, valuable plastics are lost from the recycling loop. At the same time, the demand for resource-conserving packaging systems is constantly on the rise.

• Film can be used on new and existing machines
• KHS provides extensive services with laboratory tests for film
• Further alternative…

End of line reliability is crucial for the bottling plant efficiency - Manufacturers of beverages, food, detergents, chemical and pharmaceutical products have to be more and more competitive and efficient in order to face a constantly changing market; therefore, they have to…

The handling of containers and products inside a bottling line is a key factor to ensure high levels of production efficiency. Today, in the Industry 4.0 era, in which the production line is characterized by machines that interact with each other, exchange information and collect data, handling has…

Producing a great diversity of bottles from 0,5 L to 1,5 L on a single packaging line for PET, Pearlwater Mineralquellen AG (Pearlwater) was determined to enhance the efficiency of its production line as well as bottle quality by upgrading its PalKombi Gripping palletiser’s performance, installed by…

In spring 2021 viscotec, a division of the Austrian machinery supplier Starlinger & Co GmbH, reached a milestone: an impressive 2 million tons of capacity are available for the production of PET recyclate on viscotec systems worldwide.

What is already common practice at the company's location in Ansfelden, Austria, PURE LOOP now makes possible in North America as well. From now on, the specialist for shredder-extruder recycling solutions also offers customers and potential buyers in North America the opportunity to test the ISEC…

SIA Depozīta Iepakojuma Operators, the future central system administrator for the deposit return system (DRS) in Latvia, announced that TOMRA has won the tender to provide the reverse vending technology for the upcoming bottle and can recycling program. A negotiation period will follow with the…

With over 30,000 units supplied to its customers, CMG provides technologies and solutions designed for the recycling industry, all certified for Industry 4.0 compliancy.