Premiere of extremely lightweight PET bottles for still water in South America: thanks to Bottles & Shapes™ lightweighting expertise from KHS 0.5-liter PET bottles weighing just 8.9 grams and 1.5-liter PET containers at 22 grams are now available in Brazilian stores for the first time ever. The…

Amcor Rigid Plastics USA, LLC has purchased the manufacturing assets and intellectual property of Eco-Groupe, Inc., a privately held preform manufacturing operation with four manufacturing sites in the United States. Amcor Rigid Plastics has also purchased a minority equity interest in EnKon, LLC, a…

On September 23 and 24, 2015 American Starlinger-Sahm, Inc. celebrated the official opening of the new US headquarters in Fountain Inn in the Greenville Metropolitan Area, South Carolina, during a two-day Open House with an Austrian touch. The inauguration ceremony of the new 23,000 sq.ft. facility…

Mitsubishi Polyester Film, Inc. announces an investment of $100 million to increase its capacity for biaxially oriented polyester (BOPET) film at its plant in Greer, SC. The investment will include a new film production line scheduled to start up mid-year 2017.
MPF’s investment announcement is a…

Regional producing bottlers to optimize system production
Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated, Coca-Cola Bottling Company United,  Swire Coca-Cola USA, and Coca-Cola Refreshments to Coordinate Efficient Operation of Production Assets

The Coca-Cola Company today took another significant step…

Brand owners and plastic converters now require much more from their tooling suppliers. They require the ‘’Total Solution’’. To meet these increased requirements R&D/Leverage Europe, a subsidiary of R&D/Leverage USA, announces the Official Opening of its new Product Solutions Laboratory (PSL).
To…

Clariant provided investors, analysts and journalists important details of the specific challenges and opportunities in North America as well as unique insights into the latest market and technology trends within Clariant's Business Units Catalysis and Oil & Mining Services at Clariant´s Roundtable…

It is exactly one decade ago that Gneuss Kunststofftechnik GmbH from Bad Oeynhausen, Germany, opened its branch office in São Paulo, Brazil. The establishment was due to the great success that Gneuss had achieved in South America in prior years in association with its representative offices in…

Amcor Rigid Plastics, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of rigid plastic packaging for food, beverage, spirits, personal/home care and healthcare industries, has been recognized by the Grandes Cases de Embalagem, a Brazilian packaging award competition sponsored by Embalagem e Marca magazine,…

Brazilian company Jussara has become Latin America’s first-ever dairy producer to adopt an aseptic blow-fill-cap solution equipped with dry preform decontamination. With this solution from Sidel, Jussara expands its portfolio with a new PET bottle to differentiate its brands on the shelves in a…

Netstal introduces new PET-LINE 5000 to the US market at NPE. The thoroughbred of preform production is designed for molds with 96 to 144 cavities and was developed specifically for markets with extremely high output.