0:50 min Markets and Management, Management
Cooperation

ETTLINGER - New sales partner for Poland: RICCO takes over sales of high performance melt filters

ETTLINGER, a member of the MAAG Group and a leading manufacturer of high performance melt filters, has found a seasoned and effective sales partner for Poland in RICCO International Trade & Consultancy. The future cooperation will mainly comprise sales of Ettlinger systems as ...
1:22 min Markets and Management, Management
Acquisition

Silgan Holdings announces acquisition of Cobra Plastics

Silgan Holdings, a leading supplier of rigid packaging for consumer goods products, announced today that it has acquired Cobra Plastics. This business manufactures and sells injection molded plastic closures for a wide variety of consumer products, with a particular focus ...
1:35 min Markets and Management
Report

NAPCOR: Domestic processing of rPET surges amid flat recycling rate

The National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR) announced the release of the 2018 PET Recycling Report. The report cites a 2018 United States recycling rate of 28.9 percent for polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic bottles, essentially unchanged from the 2017 rate of ...
0:20 min Markets and Management, Management
Chinaplas 2020

CHINAPLAS 2020 to be postponed

The organizers of Chinaplas, Adsale Exhibition Services Ltd, have announced that, due to the situation surrounding the novel coronavirus epidemic in China and in accordance with the instructions issued by the Shanghai city government to stop all large-scale activities, CHINAPLAS ...
0:59 min Markets and Management, Management
Appointment

New Leadership for PlasticsEurope - Virginia Janssens appointed as Managing Director

PlasticsEurope, the pan-European trade association representing plastics manufacturers, is pleased to announce the appointment of Virginia Janssens as Managing Director. She will take up her role on 16 March 2020. Ms Janssens has been the Managing Director of the European ...
1:55 min Markets and Management, Management
Appointment

Thomas Hartkämper is the new CEO of Kautex Maschinenbau – Dr. Olaf Weiland joins the advisory board

Thomas Hartkämper is the new CEO of Kautex Maschinenbau. He is taking over from Dr. Olaf Weiland, who has had significant influence on the development of the Bonn-based company since 2005. Going forward, Hartkämper is responsible for the areas of operations, research & ...
1:55 min Markets and Management, Management
Appointment

Syntegon Technology appoints Dr Michael Grosse as Chief Executive Officer

Dr Grosse will assume office on March 1, 2020 Current CEO Dr Stefan Koenig to leave Syntegon Technology Further addition to Syntegon Technology’s management team: Dr Walter Bickel becomes Member of the Executive Board
0:47 min Markets and Management, Management
Acquisition

Chroma Color Corporation acquires Plastics Color Corporation

Chroma Color Corporation continues to grow its manufacturing footprint along with its portfolio of colorant and additive technologies with its recent acquisition of Plastics Color Corporation, including its two facilities in Asheboro, North Carolina and Calumet City, Illinois. Terms ...
1:14 min Markets and Management, Management
Collaboration

Berry Global and Georgia-Pacific team up to facilitate the collection and repurpose of post-consumer materials

Berry Global Group, Inc. announced today its formal agreement with Georgia-Pacific Recycling to collaborate in creating a closed loop system to recover, segregate, and reprocess post-consumer resin (PCR). The two companies share a long working history, and will now harness ...
1:58 min Markets and Management, Facts & Figures
Facts & Figures

PET to PET annual balance 2019: new recycling record - over 26,000 tons of PET material recycled

Around 26,300 t of PET material are recycled Circular economy "made in Austria": PET to PET Recycling Österreich GmbH as an international best practice Collective appeal to consumers: Every PET bottle back in the cycle