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2012-07-25 1:25 min Facts & Figures

Krones confirms targets for 2012

With the figures for the first half of 2012, Krones, the world’s market leader for beverage filling and packaging technology is well on track to reach its targets for the year as a whole. Sales in the first six months of 2012 were up by 2.6 % on the preceding year’s equivalent ...

2012-07-24 1:20 min PET injection moulding systems

Husky awarded Ringier 2012 Technology Innovation Award

HyPET High Performance Package system honored for contributions to packaging industry Husky Injection Molding Systems has been recognized with the Ringier 2012 Technology Innovation Award. Husky received the award for the development of its HyPET™ High Performance Package (HPP) ...

2012-07-23 1:41 min Management

Bosch plans to acquire Ampack Ammann

Bosch, the leading global supplier of technology and services, intends to acquire ...

2012-07-20 1:70 min PET recycling systems

Starlinger has opened new representative office in Uzbekistan

As of May 2012 Starlinger & Co. GmbH, Austrian manufacturer of machinery for ...

2012-07-19 1:56 min Bottle development and design

Petainer PET provides sales boost at SourceFood

A Swedish company’s sales have been boosted by using safe, light weight, low-cost ...

2012-07-16 0:57 min Management

The Board of Directors of LSB decides to render the capital increase null and void

La Seda de Barcelona (LSB), the multinational listed on the Spanish Stock Exchange, pioneer in PET recycling and one of the European leaders in plastic packaging decided on 10th July, at a meeting of its Board of Directors, in El Prat de Llobregat (Barcelona), to render the capital ...

2012-07-16 1:49 min Regions

New EU Standard will boost use of post-consumer Plastics Recyclates

After two years of work plastics converters, recyclers and collectors have agreed to launch a new European wide certification and audit scheme named EuCertPlast which implements existing CEN standard 14343 on post-consumer plastics recycling. The project was conducted by EuPR and ...

2012-07-16 1:39 min Regions

Petcore and EuPR publish PET collection figures for 2011 - European collection rate increases to 51% of all PET bottles

Petcore and EuPR announced today that European post-sorting PET collection reached 1.59 Million tonnes in 2011, an increase of 140 Ktes (9.4%) on 2010. For the EU 27 countries growth in collection is stable at 2%. The overall collection rate in 2011 was a record 51% of all PET ...

2012-07-13 1:80 min Management

A new home for SIPA North America

The new spaces will allow it to significantly increase its ability to cater to the ...

2012-07-13 0:50 min Filling and aseptic

GEA Procomac extend running time for low acid aseptic filling lines

GEA Procomac, the world leader in aseptic filling, has extended the running time between cleaning cycles for its low acid filling lines allowing them to run continuously for up to 120 hours. This is a unique achievement in the market. The development reduces costs, increases ...