Avery Dennison Label and Packaging Materials has created a new set of tools designed to help customers choose products that are fully compliant with regulations. Burak Sahbaz, director paper and variable information, Avery Dennison Europe, said that Complete Compliance is about working with…

LINPAC is extending its food service offer by launching a comprehensive range of rigid rPET solutions for the sector. This complements the current LINPAC portfolio of EPS Hotpacs, catering trays, plates and bowls.

Klöckner Pentaplast will present Pentafood® Hotfill PET at CFIA in Rennes (France), March 7-9, 2017. Klöckner Pentaplast will also show a wide range of high-performance films at the CFIA in hall 4, booth D74. Pentafood® Hotfill PET is an attractive hot-fill solution for the food packaging industry.…

India’s largest multinational flexible packaging materials and solution company Uflex has launchedSuper Barrier Polyester Film, FLEXPETTM F-PGB-12. This 12 micron Bi-axially Oriented Polyethylene Terephthalate (BOPET) film owing toa speciallymodified surface treatment (on one side)offers very high…

Kleopatra Holdings 2 S.C.A., the holding company for the Klöckner Pentaplast Group (the “Company”), announced today that it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) relating to a proposed initial public offering of its common…

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…

OCTAL, a world leader in PET resin and integrated PET sheet manufacturing, continues to explore additional ways to positively impact the packaging industry. OCTAL is taking significant steps toward their goal of increasing visibility and sustainability within the PET packaging industry through its…

OCTAL, the world’s leading integrated producer of high-quality PET sheet and resin, presented the results of an independent study today. Thanks to the company’s production method, which is unique in the world, a total of 51 million tons of CO2 emissions were reduced during the production of plastic…

OCTAL, biggest producer of PET sheet worldwide, has now attracted a great deal of attention with its strong growth. The entire turnover, for instance, is to be more than doubled from this year to 2012. The reason for this is the new DPETTM technology that has been developed by the enterprise itself.…

Global PET packaging leader OCTAL is on track to complete the second phase of its operational expansion this year following a new round of funding from six Middle Eastern banks.The privately owned, Oman-based manufacturer opened a 400,000 metric ton (m/t) PET resins and sheet packaging facility in…

   CTAL Petrochemicals recently signed a contract with Uhde Inventa-Fischer to build a 550,000 tpy plant for the production of PET resin. The contract for delivery of two lines unique to OCTAL will use the state-of-the-art of Melt-to-Resin MTR® technology proprietary to Uhde Inventa-Fischer.The…