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SABIC
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Geleen
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Netherlands
Caps & Closures Development
SABIC opens new Caps & Closures Technology and Innovation Center in the Netherlands
SABIC is pleased to announce the opening of its new Technology and Innovation Center dedicated to the caps and closures segment in Geleen, the Netherlands. Located in SABIC’s Global Technology Center for Europe on the Chemelot Campus, this investment is proof of SABIC’s commitment to the industry to…
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KraussMaffei
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Munich
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Germany
Management
Pioneering Plastics: Building the New KraussMaffei
- KraussMaffei continues to implement its strategy and the rollout of its new brand
- At K 2019, the company is presenting solutions for Circular Economy, Digitalization and New Technologies
- During K 2019, KraussMaffei will launch its new online platform polymore – a new marketplace for compounds,…
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Gabriel-Chemie
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Gumpoldskirchen
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Austria
Appointment
Entering a new age for Gabriel-Chemie: Stefanie Sommer is Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer (CSO)
The group is proud to announce that Stefanie Sommer, daughter of CEO Elisabeth Sommer, and granddaughter of founder Josef Houska, will take over a new important strategic role in the company. Stefanie Sommer will assume the role of Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer (CSO) with immediate…
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Husky
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Bolton, ON
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Canada
Appointment
Husky announces organizational and leadership changes aimed at delivering products and services with enhanced speed, quality and flexibility to customers
Husky Injection Molding Systems, a leading industrial technology provider to the plastics processing community, today announced organizational and leadership changes to its Hot Runners, Controllers and Medical (HRCM) business aimed at helping the company more quickly and effectively support evolving…
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Krones AG
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Neutraubling
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Germany
Management
Krones and Stadler are turbo-starting a strong closed-cycle economy
Used PET bottles and other plastic waste can serve the packaging sector and other industries as a valuable resource. It’s only that – currently, at least – this resource is still lying fallow in many areas. In order to bring about a lasting change here, Krones AG, Neutraubling, and Stadler…
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SMI Group
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San Giovanni Bianco (BG)
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Italy
Awards
The SMI Group is National Winner at the European Business Awards
The SMI Group was named one of 18 National Winners in the 2019 European Business Awards, one of the world’s largest business competitions. The winning companies were chosen from 2,753 businesses named as ‘Ones to Watch’ in a list of business excellence published in July and selected as a National…
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Norwegian Cruise Line
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Miami, FL
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United States
Abolishing Plastic bottles
Norwegian Cruise Line partners with JUST® Goods, Inc. to eliminate single-use plastic bottles across fleet
Norwegian will be the First Major Global Cruise Company to Become Plastic Bottle Free by January 1, 2020
Over Six Million Plastic Bottles to Be Eliminated Each Year
Over Six Million Plastic Bottles to Be Eliminated Each Year
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SUEZ Recycling
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Wesseling
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Germany
Recycling
SUEZ and ELM Recycling found joint venture "Xplastics"
Xplastics is the name of the new plastics recycling plant, which will go into operation in March 2020 and process almost 70,000 tonnes of packaging and commercial waste material into PO, LDPE and substitute fuels (EBS for short). With their 50/50 joint venture, the two companies SUEZ Recycling Süd…
Management
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Penn Color
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Doylestown, PA
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United States
Grand Opening
Penn Color expands facilities in The Netherlands
Penn Color proudly announces the grand opening of its expanded facilities for PVC and engineering plastics masterbatches and specialty coatings at its site in Venray, The Netherlands.
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Brückner Group
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Freilassing
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Germany
BOPET
Akij Group again trust in Brückner – this time for BOPET
When Akij Group, one of Bangladesh’s largest group of companies with more than 55,000 employees, decided to enter the packaging film business some years ago, they chose Brückner Maschinenbau as their partner. Ever since the BOPP line started, it has been constantly producing high quality films with…
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Americhem
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Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
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United States
Event
Americhem announces ground breaking event for plant expansion kickoff
Americhem, a globally recognized designer and manufacturer of custom color masterbatch, functional additives, engineered compounds, and performance technologies, has announced a ground breaking event for their Morrisville, PA plant expansion kickoff on October 2, 2019.
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ALBA Group
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Berlin
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Hong Kong SAR of China
Recycling Plant
Groundbreaking ceremony for Hong Kong’s first PET and HDPE recycling plant
+++ Joint venture between ALBA Group, Baguio Waste Management & Recycling Limited and Swire Coca-Cola Limited +++ Second ALBA recycling plant in Hong Kong / operation starts in second half of 2020 / annual capacity of more than 35,000 tonnes +++
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Nestlé
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Vevey
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Switzerland
Sustainability Initiative
Nestlé inaugurates packaging research institute, first-of-its-kind in the food industry
On 12th September Nestlé officially inaugurated the Institute of Packaging Sciences, the first-of-its-kind in the food industry. The new Institute enables Nestlé to accelerate its efforts to bring functional, safe and environmentally friendly packaging solutions to the market and to address the…
Facts & Figures
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PET Engineering
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San Vendemiano
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Italy
Anniversary
PET Engineering celebrates its 20th Anniversary in the business of PET packaging
PET Engineering celebrates its first 20 years of activity even if its history began in 1986 when Moreno Barel, former owner and CEO, started acquiring the technical skills and know-how that have become the sturdy foundations of the company since 1999.
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Krones AG
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Neutraubling
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Germany
Facts & Figures
Ad-hoc disclosure – Krones adjusts its earnings outlook for 2019
Based on the actual available figures Krones, the world’s leading manufacturer of filling and packaging technology, adjusts its earnings outlook for the fiscal year 2019. While the revenue growth of Krones in the first six month of 2019 were still satisfactory, the earnings before tax (EBT) for this…
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Reifenhäuser
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Troisdorf
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Germany
Investment
Reifenhäuser Group invests in new production and assembly hall for flat dies
The Reifenhäuser Group has started construction of a new production hall at the headquarters in Troisdorf. With the groundbreaking ceremony, the project is now entering the intensive construction phase. The new production and assembly hall with an area of 3,000 square meters is expected to be…
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Unilever
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London, UK, Rotterdam
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Netherlands
Sustainable Brands
Unilever's purpose-led, Sustainable Living Brands outperform
Unilever today announced that its purpose-led, Sustainable Living Brands are growing 69% faster than the rest of the business and delivering 75% of the company’s growth.
The figures, which were revealed by Unilever CEO Alan Jope at the Deutsche Bank Global Consumer Conference in Paris, demonstrate…
The figures, which were revealed by Unilever CEO Alan Jope at the Deutsche Bank Global Consumer Conference in Paris, demonstrate…
Marketing & Sales
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VDMA
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Frankfurt am Main
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Germany
Markets
German plastics and rubber machinery sector: Turnover decline of up to ten per cent for 2019
- After ten years of growth and doubling of sales the turning point has now been reached
- Incoming orders slumped by 10 per cent in the first quarter of 2019
- Automobile sector and image problems of plastics are thwarting growth
- Turnover plus of 2 per cent in 2018
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Marketing & Sales
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Starlinger
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Vienna
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Austria
Open House
Starlinger Open House in Taicang: Machinery for innovative woven plastic packaging
During Chinaplas in April 2018, Starlinger welcomed more than 600 international visitors, and about 200 guests also attended the company's open house in Taicang. The machinery demonstrations were met with great interest: high-tech weaving on circular looms type RX, consistently high coating quality…
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SMI
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San Giovanni Bianco (BG)
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Italy
Awards
SMI representing Italy at the Grand Final of Europe’s major business competition
SMI is hoping to be named a winner at Grand Final of the European Business Awards sponsored by RSM, on 22 and 23 May in Warsaw, Poland.
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SIPA S.p.A.
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Vittorio Veneto
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Italy
NPE 2018
At NPE 2018, SIPA debuts new ISBM features, highlights mold refurbishment skills, shows leadership for the circular economy
SIPA will show brand-new improvements to its compact ECS SP injection-stretch-blow molding (ISBM) system at NPE2018. The system, now more versatile than ever, can be seen in the Bottle Zone. We will also be illustrating our full range of equipment for one- and two-stage production of PET containers,…
Business Technology
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Sacmi
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Imola
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Italy
K Show 2019
Sacmi presents multilayer compression
Developed and marketed since early 2019, CCMM combines all the intrinsic advantages of SACMI compression with user-friendliness, process consistency and cycle times shorter than those of competing technologies.
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Bühler Group
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Uzwil
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Switzerland
Award
United Kingdom’s most important innovation accolade goes to Bühler’s optical sorting
Bühler has received the United Kingdom’s most prestigious innovation award – the Queen’s Award for Enterprise – for its optical sorting technology. In an official ceremony, in which the award was handed over by John Barber, representative Deputy Lieutenant for London Borough of Newham. Johannes…
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Amcor
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Melbourne
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Australia
Innovation center
Amcor expands legacy of packaging innovation
Home and personal care brands will have increased access to world-leading packaging innovation at a new center to be opened by global packaging company, Amcor, in New Albany, Ohio. Amcor will deliver award-winning design expertise, rapid prototyping, product sampling, and testing capabilities to…
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CMG
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Cento di Budrio (BO)
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Italy
Presentation
CMG at K2019: size reduction 4.0
Integration, optimization, energy efficiency, production consistency, homogeneous regrind characteristics and absence of dust, these are the technological developments that CMG will present at its stand E22, hall 9.
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ILLIG Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG
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Heilbronn
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Germany
Exhibit
ILLIG presents new technological developments for sustainable packaging solutions
- With the theme "Circular Thinking!"
- IML-T® applications in high demand
- New! Brilliantly decorated lids with IML-T®
- A new breakthrough in performance: 4th generation ILLIG thermoformer
- Digital transformation in thermoforming
Operations
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Operations
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Nestlé Waters
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Vevey
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Switzerland
Management
Nestlé Waters invests CHF 25 million in Swiss water bottling site
Nestlé Waters has announced a CHF 25 million modernisation of its bottling site at Henniez, Switzerland
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Management
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Klöckner Pentaplast
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Montabaur
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Germany
Klöckner Pentaplast announces major Pharma capacity expansion in Switzerland to support growing EMEA & Asian markets
Klöckner Pentaplast’s Pharmaceutical & Medical Device Films Division (kp Pharma) announces a 5 million Euro investment in their Bern, Switzerland facility. kp will expand capacity at its Swiss facility by 30% to address ever-changing market needs in EMEA and support expansion into Asia.
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Operations
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Vacuum Barrier Corporation
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Woburn, MA
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United States
Vacuum Barrier ISO 9001:2015 CERTIFIED
TÜV Rheinland® of North America has certified that Vacuum Barrier Corporation has established and maintains a Quality Management System (QMS) confirming the requirements of ISO 9001:2015.
Receiving this certification communicates that the systematic approach to the organizations processes allow for…
Receiving this certification communicates that the systematic approach to the organizations processes allow for…
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Operations
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Sidel
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Parma
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Italy
Successful installation with 150.000 BPH
Record-breaking complete PET water lines from Sidel achieved 150.000 BPH in Saudi Arabia
Following the successful installation two years ago of what was Sidel’s fastest bottling line in the world at the time, the Health Water Bottling Company (HWB) of Saudi Arabia decided to invest in two further lines. The original solution still runs at a speed of 134,000 bottles per hour (bph),…
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Operations
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Krones AG
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Neutraubling
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Germany
Krones’ Innovation Lab officially inaugurated
One year after moving into the premises in Regensburg’s TechBase and successful completion of its first projects, Krones AG’s Innovation Lab was officially inaugurated on 9 October 2017.
The TechBase is located directly next to the university and the East Bavarian University of Applied Science…
The TechBase is located directly next to the university and the East Bavarian University of Applied Science…
Strategy & Risk
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Bottle developments
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ALPLA
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Hard
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Austria
Alternative to Plastic Packaging
ALPLA and BillerudKorsnäs to join forces to pioneer paper bottles for a sustainable future
Plastic packaging solutions provider ALPLA and paper packaging materials‐ and solutions provider BillerudKorsnäs today announced that they will embark on a joint venture. They do so with the vision to develop a fully biobased and recyclable paper bottle.
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Nestlé
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Vevey
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Switzerland
Nestlé aiming at 100% recyclable or reusable packaging by 2025
Nestlé announced its ambition to make 100% of its packaging recyclable or re-usable by 2025. Its vision is that none of its packaging, including plastics, ends up in landfill or as litter. Nestlé believes that there is an urgent need to minimize the impact of packaging on the environment.
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Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited
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Bangkok
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Thailand
Indorama Ventures to acquire PET business in Brazil maiden entry into key South American market strengthens its position as the #1 PET Player Globally
- Expands global footprint with presence in South America
- Identifies growth and margin enhancement opportunities through scale advantage and cost synergies
- Reaches a larger customer base, complementing IVL’s existing operations and technologies
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Indorama Ventures
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Bangkok
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Thailand
Indorama Ventures and Huvis to Form Joint Venture to Produce High Value-Added Products in USA
- Extends complementary capabilities of Indorama Ventures and Huvis to deliver customer value proposition and accelerate profitable growth
- Builds position as one of leaders in Low Melting Fiber (LMF) in low tax environment in the U.S.A.
- Strengthens both Huvis’s and Indorama Ventures’ business…
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Strategy & risk
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Iceland Foods
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Deeside, Flintshire
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United Kingdom
Strategy
Iceland aims to be plastic-free across own label range by 2023
Iceland, the UK’s leading frozen food specialist, is committing to become the first major retailer globally to eliminate plastic packaging from all of its own brand products by the end of 2023. The process starts now and Iceland is challenging itself to complete it within the next five years.
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14-15 October 2019
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