1:44 min Management
New filling line

Lucozade Ribena Suntory invests in high-speed PET line

Japan-based Suntory Beverage & Food is investing £13m in its UK-based subsidiary Lucozade Ribena Suntory to install a new, high-speed bottle filler at its factory in Coleford, Gloucestershire.
0:41 min Markets and Management, Management
Management

Management changes for Sumitomo (SHI) Demag

Shoichi Ohira will join the management board of Sumitomo (SHI) Demag Plastics Machinery as COO (Chief Operation Officer) and Head of Production, effective 15 January 2019. Chief Collaboration Officer Hideki Kuroiwa will change into management and return to Japan shortly, where he ...
0:35 min Management
Acquisition

DAK Americas to acquire PET recycling facility from Perpetual Recycling Solutions

DAK Americas LLC(DAK), an Alpek Polyester business, announces that it has signed an Asset Purchase Agreement with Perpetual Recycling Solutions, LLC (Perpetual) to acquire the Perpetual PET recycling facility in Richmond, IN.
1:57 min Facts & Figures
Recycling Review

PET to PET annual balance 2018: Over 1 billion PET bottles processed into recyclate

More than 25,400 t of PET material recycled9 % increase compared to 2017PET to PET Recycling Österreich GmbH as Best Practice of a functioning recycling economy for 12 yearsCollective call: Every PET bottle is a valuable raw material
0:26 min Management
Announcement

PETnology Americas 2019, Atlanta, GA, USA, 14-15 May

PETnology Americas 2019, produced in collaborative partnership of The Packaging ...
0:26 min Management
Announcement

PETnology Europe 2019, Düsseldorf, 14-15 October 2019, prior to K show

On 14 and 15 October, just prior to the K show, PETnology Europe 2019 will again ...
1:11 min Management
Acquisition

Atlas Holdings announces acquisition of Saxco International

Atlas Holdings LLC announced today that it has acquired Saxco International, LLC (“Saxco”), the leading North American value-added distributor of rigid packaging to the wine, spirits, craft beer, and food markets. Saxco offers a broad range of products and services including glass, ...
1:19 min Markets and Management
Acquisition

Indorama Ventures to acquire PET Recycling capabilities from Custom Polymers PET, LLC in US

Enhances capability to drive closed loop sustainable solutions and embraces the Circular EconomyExpands IVL’s capabilities in rPET flake and pellets to serve increasing demand for rPETEnhances supply chain synergies for IVL’s recycled resin business
1:27 min Markets and Management, Management
Acquisition

Indorama Ventures to acquire Invista’s HVA polymer asset in Germany

Reinforces intellectual property with global rights for Speciality PET resinsFirst European manufacturing site for High Value-added polymers and R&D capabilities
1:31 min Strategies & Market Analysis, PET processing
Alliance agreement

Loop Industries, thyssenkrupp partner to shape future of PET plastic manufacturing

Loop Industries and thyssenkrupp sign global alliance agreement to transform the future of sustainable PET plastic manufacturing Global Alliance Agreement aims to combine Loop Industries’ depolymerization technology with thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions’ PET Melt-To-Resin® ...