comPETence magazine

THREE:19

EDITORIAL

2019-09-17 1:10 min THREE:19

connecting comPETence THREE:19

Granted - with the cover of THREE: 19, we let ourselves be carried away to emotions. ...

IN PORTRAIT

2019-09-17 8:21 min Closure assembling, Caps & Closures, THREE:19

A cap is a cap. Or is it?

Flat caps, tethered caps, sports caps and complex cap systems

Any engineer will tell you that caps can be a highly complex affair. If you take a ...

IN DIALOGUE

2019-09-17 8:29 min Sustainability & Circular Economy, Compression moulding - preforms, THREE:19

From washed flakes to food-grade preforms in a single thermal cycle – Circular Economy Becoming Tangible

SIPA-EREMA-Co-Development XTREME Renew converts post-consumer PET bottle scrap into preforms

The first process step (Vacurema by EREMA) converts conventional washed PET bottle ...

IN FOCUS

2019-09-17 4:10 min THREE:19, Sustainability & Circular Economy, Sorting and collection

With the introduction of plastic import bans across South East Asia, the global export market has slowed hugely over the last 12 months

Can the global plastic waste export market be revived?

Countries such as China, Thailand, Malaysia and India have restricted plastic and ...

2019-09-17 8:34 min THREE:19, India, Sustainability & Circular Economy

Packaging plastic recycling & Energy demand in India

The Indian plastic packaging industry has shown very stable growth rates over the ...

2019-09-17 8:17 min Sustainability & Circular Economy, THREE:19

PET Bottles in 2019 and Beyond

The Future Needs to be Sustainable

In this piece, we will first review the global consumer packaging industry in light ...

IN DETAIL

2019-09-16 2:35 min THREE:19

Innovative systems for drying plastics

PLUG & DRY - material drying all-in-one-solution

In the field of auxiliary equipment, Eisbär manufactures systems to improve quality ...

2019-09-17 2:59 min THREE:19

Success at Nestlé Special.T factory with CoboAccess_Pal leads Sidel to extend cobotic palletizing range to higher payload

Nestlé recently installed two units of CoboAccess™_Pal, an industrial, safe and ...

2019-09-17 6:49 min THREE:19

Focus Topic Black Additives & Colorants: Retal, Gabriel-Chemie, Movacolor, PolyOne, Clariant

2019-09-17 3:41 min THREE:19, Two step blow moulding systems, Filling & Bottling

Two block systems for Silver Springs and RealPure Bottling

First one then two

Kane Richmond was so pleased with his first KHS InnoPET TriBlock in Mississippi that ...

2019-09-17 5:40 min THREE:19, Two step blow moulding systems

Advanced technology to be more competitive

In today’s era of Industry 4.0 and IoT, the food & beverage industry demands ...

2019-09-17 3:59 min THREE:19

SACMI – new material research and competence in technology to improve sustainability

EU Directive 2019/04 on single- use plastics is set to revolutionise the industry by ...

2019-09-17 4:59 min THREE:19

Terahertz metrology solutions are revolutionizing multi-layer wall thickness for distribution control process in the plastic container and preform manufacturing industry

Manufacturers are still manually measuring containers and preforms for overall and ...