1:17 min Management
Acquisition

Ara Partners acquires Petainer

Investment to support growth of leading sustainable packaging company Ara Partners ("Ara"), a private equity firm that specialises in industrial decarbonisation investments, today announced that it has acquired Petainer Ltd. ("Petainer" or the "Company"), a UK-based, global producer ...
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1:59 min Labels and sleeves
Expansion

Henkel opens new adhesives plant in Mexico

Henkel is expanding its production capabilities in Mexico by opening a new ...
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0:50 min Management
Rebrand

New name and logo for PET producers’ European Trade Association

The Committee of PET Manufacturers in Europe (CPME), has announced its rebrand: PET EUROPE – Producers’ Association.
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2:70 min Sustainability & Circular Economy
Emission reduction

Sidel moves faster towards meeting international sustainability targets

Sidel has pledged to halve its emissions by 2030 and confirmed that all its sites ...
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1:20 min Bottle development and design
Product development

ALPLA opens innovative design center STUDIOa in Hard

The ALPLA Group is accelerating the roll-out of new plastic packaging solutions with ...
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2:46 min Strategies & Market Analysis
Cooperation of two recycling machine pioneers

EREMA Group acquires stake in start-up company plasticpreneur®

As of 30 May 2022, EREMA Group GmbH acquired 19.8 percent of plasticpreneur® gmbh. ...
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1:46 min rPET & PET Flakes
Switch

Henkel: Pril bottles now made from 100% rPET

Henkel has reached another milestone in the field of sustainable packaging: The ...
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0:30 min Staple fibers, fibers, filaments, Biobased Material
Fibre bottle

Avantium and Carlsberg sign offtake agreement on PEF

Avantium announces that Carlsberg Group and Avantium have agreed to take the next ...
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3:30 min Staple fibers, fibers, filaments, Biobased Material
Fibre bottle

Carlsberg makes bio-based and fully recyclable bottles available to consumers in its largest ever trial

In its largest pilot to date, Carlsberg Group has revealed the trial of its new ...
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1:50 min rPET & PET Flakes
De-dusting and rPET quality

Pelletron's de-dusting system solves problems with gels in rPET films - case study

Gels were not on rPlanet Earth’s radar when the vertically integrated rPET processor started up their 300,000+ square foot plant in 2018. Being an “advanced technology company” rPlanet initially focused its efforts on state-of-the-art automation to sort post-consumer materials and ...
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