4:14 min Management

New Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Greiner Group

The two holding companies of the Greiner Group, Greiner Holding AG and Greiner Bio-One International AG, have rearranged the chairmanship of the Supervisory Board. On the occasion of the Supervisory Board meeting that took place on 5 July 2010 it was decided that Prof. DDDr. Wolfgang ...
2:55 min Facts & Figures

Petcore publishes PET collection figures for 2009 - European PET bottle collection increases by more than 8%

Petcore announced today that European post-sorting PET collection reached 1.4 million tonnes in 2009, an increase of more than 8% on 2008. The overall collection rate in 2009 rose by nearly 2.5%, from 46% to 48.4%, of all PET bottles on the market. The 2009 share of fibres as an end ...
7:23 min Management

Greiner Group reorganizes group structure

Dipl.-Bw. Axel Kühner (left) and Dr. Axel Greiner (right), directors of Greiner ...
2:19 min Facts & Figures

La Seda de Barcelona´s PET sales increase by 30,8% in June

La Seda de Barcelona registered a sales volume of 45.000 tonnes of PET resin in the ...
2:13 min Management

Graham Packaging announces purchase of China Roots Packaging PTE Ltd.

Graham Packaging Company Inc. (NYSE: GRM) today announced that its subsidiary, Graham Packaging Company, L.P., has successfully acquired China Roots Packaging PTE Ltd. (China Roots) from PCCS Group Berhad, a Malaysian company. China Roots is a plastic container manufacturing company ...
1:59 min Management

Sonoco acquires Associated Packaging Technologies, Inc.

Sonoco (NYSE: SON), one of the largest diversified global packaging companies, has completed the acquisition of Associated Packaging Technologies, Inc. (APT), North America's largest manufacturer and supplier of Crystallized Polyethylene Terepthalate (CPET) containers to the frozen ...
2:17 min Management

Greiner Packaging goes Germany

  Having obtained approval by the antitrust authorities, Greiner ...
3:39 min Facts & Figures, Applications & Operations, Management, …

R&D/Leverage – UK realizes 17% sales growth as company builds upon heritage of service, support and innovation

The popularity of the Product Solutions Lab (PSL), delivery times up to twice as fast as the competition, the recent addition of the Genesis Hot Runner System – combined with effective communications with non-English speaking customers throughout Europe – are but a few of the reasons ...
0:57 min Management

Hotset licenses heater technology from Mold-Masters

As part of their ongoing co-operation, Mold-Masters has licensed Hotset US Patent 7,377,768 for use in their products. This patent allows Hotset to continue to market their products containing integrated heater element and thermocouple circuits in a removable heater sleeve. Terms of ...
3:14 min Facts & Figures

Amcor announces US$280 million acquisition of Ball Plastics Packaging Americas

The purchase price is US$280 million, which represents four times the last 12 months acquired EBITDA of US$70 million.* The business has five plants in North America and sales of approximately US$600 million. Approximately 50% of the earnings of the business are derived from the ...