1:25 min Bottle development and design
Lightweight bottle designs

Sidel: Competek highlights its complete optimization journey for lightweight PET bottles

Reducing the weight of a PET bottle is not simply a matter of using less material. ...
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1:40 min Cosmetics & Medical, Bottles and containers
Injection stretch blow molding

Achieving unparalleled flexibility and market responsiveness with a CYPET K16 Machine

Megaplast, a family-owned plastics converter in Frenaros, Cyprus, faced significant ...
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1:00 min Biobased Material
Launch

Avantium announces the start-up of its Flagship Plant, with the first batch of FDCA produced

Avantium announces that it has successfully produced the first batch of furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) at its FDCA Flagship Plant in Delfzijl, the world's first commercial-scale plant for the production of FDCA. The production of the first batch of FDCA marks a major start-up ...
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2:28 min Management, Staple fibers, fibers, filaments
Acquisition

Selenis acquires Polisan Hellas assets and expands specialty copolyester production to more than 200,000 tonnes by 2028

Continuous polymerisation joins Selenis’ existing lines in Portugal, Italy, Tunisia and the United States. Customers get the same grades from more than one site, supply from within their region and the cost base of continuous production for high-volume grades. Priority markets: ...
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3:80 min Sustainability & Circular Economy, Asia Pacific, Sorting and collection
Bottle-to-bottle recycling

HaadThip, Oxytech and Royce Universal are building a sustainable rPET sourcing system in Southern Thailand

HaadThip Public Company Limited (HTC), the manufacturer and distributor of ...
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3:10 min Digitization, Bottle Washing Machines
Exhibition

KHS at BrauBeviale: Shaping the future. Holistically designing lines.

Maximum flexibility through holistic line solutions and pooledtechnological ...
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4:32 min Sorting and collection
Recycling

TOMRA: How PPWR is rewriting the economics of recycling

As recycled-content requirements become reality, value is shifting from volume to ...
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1:50 min Bottle development and design
Lightweight PET bottle

Arpanon advances its SENDAI brand with a Sidel developed ultra-lightweight 600 ml bottle, cutting bottle weight by 30% and energy consumption by 50%

Arpanon Beverage Company Limited leveraged Sidel’s packaging expertise to develop ...
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1:40 min Injection moulding systems
Closure manufacturing

Husky launches HyCAP® 4.0 Tooling – Engineered to advance injection molding performance for beverage closure manufacturing

Husky Technologies™ announced the launch of its next-generation HyCAP® 4.0 tooling ...
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1:35 min Biobased Material
PEF

Avantium and Klöckner Pentaplast advance next-generation food packaging with PEF capacity reservation agreement

Avantium announced the signing of a capacity reservation agreement with Klöckner Pentaplast. The agreement supports the companies' ambition to explore the use of Avantium's plant-based polymer PEF (polyethylene furanoate), branded as releaf®, in thermoformed food packaging ...
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