Toray Plastics (America), Inc., introduces new Lumirror®STM Soft-Touch Matte film, a unique, matte-coated polyester film technology that simplifies processing and enables the manufacture of a robust, upscale, soft-touch matte lamination. A package manufactured with Toray’s STM film has the…

Toyobo Co., Ltd. is developing its lineup of environmentally friendly, highly functional film made with recycled resin from PET beverage bottles under the Beverage Bottles to Film - BB2FTM* trademark and focusing on expanding into global markets.

To help product designers achieve improved safety in the industrial, transportation, construction, electronics and label industries, DuPont Teijin Films is introducing clear flame retardant PET polyester films. Now commercially available from DuPont, the Melinex® FR32x (PET films have achieved UL's…

Packaging solutions specialist, Parkside, has collaborated with iconic Yorkshire-based coffee company Taylors of Harrogate to create a new pack for its range of coffee products. The new design has enabled the leading brand to welcome new audiences to the Taylors brand.

In the last few days, a complete co-extrusion line for the production of PET sheet has been tested at the company's headquarters in San Vittore Olona. The line, which will be delivered to European market, is composed by the revolutionary and proven twin-screw ZP 112 / 52 D with 4 ventings and the…

Delivering a fully circular, reduced CO2 solution for multi-pack products, Coveris’ new Duralite™ R range offers a next generation shrink film solution that is both 100% recyclable and contains up to 50% post-consumer recyclate (PCR), plus an optional pre-consumer top-up material.

In 2019, Polystar Plastics has made a significant series of investments in new equipment. These are geared towards replacement of old extrusion units, and the addition of new capacity.

For years Bilcare has been known as a strong, reliable partner and leading manufacturer of high-quality films for the shrink-film market. Following the tremendous success of Bilcare’s PETG capacity increase in 2016, the company is now investing in new PETG capacities in order to attend and serve the…

Black is no longer the Cinderella of the Industry. Thanks to new technological advances Detecta by Quinn is about to become the new black in food packaging, enabling the environmental benefits of recycling black plastics to be fully realised. Quinn Packaging, a leading plastic food packaging…

Interface Polymers Ltd. has been awarded a £638K Innovate UK ‘Plastics Innovation: towards zero waste’industrial research grant to reduce mixed plastic waste by recycling multi-layer flexible plastic packaging back into high value uses.

TLMI announces that the association has launched a PET release liner recycling program in close conjunction with Lincoln, CA-based Circular Polymers.

The importance of PET as a raw material for countless thermoforming applications is clearlyon the rise. Moreover, the market is not only demanding more environmentally acceptable rawmaterials, which should offer a high degree of recyclability (as PET does), but also thicker PETsheets. These are to…