Ready to produce more: The idea of the expandable production line. Al Ethiad Refreshment, in ollaboration with SMI, installed a new bottling and packaging line for Doha Water brand; the plant has a current production of 20,000 bottles/hour, but can easily be adapted to double it, without changing…

Milacron Holdings Corp., a leading industrial technology company serving the plastics processing industry, announced that it completed the divestiture of substantially all of its Uniloy Blow Molding Business consistent with the terms of the previously announced definitive agreement with Osgood…

A new quick mold change system just developed by SIPA’s top engineers for its ECS SP single-stage injection-stretch-blow molding machines means changeover times can be slashed by around a quarter. New features also add extra safety and user-friendliness for operators, especially for some critical…

Milacron Holdings Corp., a leading industrial technology company serving the plastics processing industry announces additional key technologies for K 2019, the world’s largest plastics trade fair. K 2019 will take place October 16th-23rd in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Milacron will be displaying its…

Pretium Packaging, a leading North American manufacturer of plastic containers and closures, has made a $2 million dollar investment in new reheat stretch polyethylene terephthalate (PET) blow molding equipment and infrastructure for its Troy, Alabama manufacturing plant.

Waiakea manufacturing facilities are located in Hawaii, the only U.S. state outside North America. This is where the company runs automatic PET stretch blow molder APF-6004.

Industrial machines in PET segment consume significant amount of electricity for both processes: machine assembly and final PET bottle production. Meanwhile PET is considered one of the most environmentally friendly plastics due to its recyclability, electricity used to produce PET products remains…

Nissei ASB Machine Co., Ltd. (Head office: Komoro-shi, Nagano-ken, Japan - President: Junichi Miyasaka), a world leading manufacture of machines for injection stretch blow molding of PET and other plastics, will exhibit at the Chinaplas 2019 exhibition (Hall 11.1 booth R21), to be held in Pazhou,…

PET Technologies has implemented an innovative technology to heat the preform at linear stretch blow molders. It reduces energy consumption whilst the equipment total dimensions are compact. 

Herma has invested in a combined cooling, heat and power plant at its new self adhesive material coating facility. The project is one of the measures that will significantly reduce the plant’s energy demand.

Plasma technologies offer enormous potential for packaging and medical products and are therefore in great demand. They give plastics packagings high barrier properties, avoid the use of silicone oils or substituted glass materials in medical technology products. The Institute for Plastics…