1:35 min
Management
Management
Bruno Piacenza leaves Henkel after more than 30 years of successful service to the company
Effective September 30, 2022, Bruno Piacenza (56), who has been Executive Vice President of Henkel's Laundry & Home Care business sector since 2011, will leave the Henkel Management Board, as already announced at the beginning of the year. Wolfgang König (50), currently ...
1:17 min
Management
Management
Avantium appoints Boudewijn van Schaïk as Chief Financial Officer
Avantium N.V., a leading technology company in renewable chemistry, announces the appointment of Boudewijn van Schaïk as its Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective 1 January 2023. Boudewijn van Schaïk will succeed Bart Welten, who has notified Avantium of his intention to retire as ...
1:56 min
Management
Management
PACCOR: Organizational changes and steps towards sustainability
With the completion of the acquisition of PACCOR by the Faerch Group a new joint journey begins for both companies. As both organizations will, for the time being, operate as separate companies, the management team is now establishing an effective transition organization supporting ...
2:17 min
Management
rPET bags
Packem and Umasree enter into joint venture
After announcing investments to become the first Brazilian company to produce 100% sustainable big bags made of PET/PCR (rPET), Packem signs a joint-venture with Umasree Texplast Private Limited to build a second production unit for PET bags, this time in India.
0:58 min
Management
Appointment
Bühler Group: Dr. Zeno Staub unanimously elected to Board of Directors
Dr. Zeno Staub, Chief Executive Officer of Vontobel Holding AG, a Swiss listed globally active investment firm majority-owned by the Vontobel families and a charitable foundation, was unanimously elected to Bühler Group’s Board of Directors, September 22, 2022.
1:56 min
Cosmetics & Medical
PACKSYS GLOBAL - K Preview
K 2022: PackSys Global - Innovation is just around the green corner
PackSys Global has prepared several surprises in the form of innovations, machines and technologies that will be officially unveiled and exhibited at the world's most important plastics trade fair in October.
0:53 min
Management
Management
New dual leadership at KIEFEL Packaging GmbH in Austria
KIEFEL Packaging GmbH, the Upper Austrian subsidiary of the Freilassing-based mechanical engineering company KIEFEL GmbH, has been under dual management since September 1, 2022. Andreas Staudinger took on the duties of the previous managing director Robin Roth in spring and now heads ...
1:10 min
Facts & Figures
Call
EuPC: High energy costs badly affect plastics converters in Europe
Several European Plastics Converters are at risk due to the high Energy prices.
Converters like many other energy-intensive industries, are shocked by the dramatic increase in electricity and gas prices. Although some companies have so far been able to avoid a cost increase due to ...
