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DoubleBlow® set to become the safer solution for food applications
APPE, the packaging division of LSB and Nissei ASB GmbH (Europe), have formed a strategic partnership for the development and supply of hot fill and pasteurisable wide mouth plastic jars for the food market in Europe and Turkey.The partnership will seek to further develop the ...
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IVL to acquire PET Business in Indonesia
Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited, the world's largest Polyester Value Chain Company, has agreed to acquire 100% of the PET assets of PT Polypet Karyapersada in Indonesia. The assets, which are able to produce up to 100,800 metric tons per annum of PET (Polyethylene ...
2:41 min
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Global demand for aseptic packaging to approach $36 billion in 2015
Beverages will continue to represent more than half of the global aseptic packaging market. Demand for aseptic packaging in beverage applications will benefit from output growth coupled with expanding applications resulting from cost and sustainability benefits of aseptic packaging, ...
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Greiner Packaging is enhancing distribution in Germany and France
The Austrian packaging manufacturer Greiner Packaging International invests in Europe’s key markets. More new distribution locations of Division K are commencing operation within the first months of this year. In Bielefeld (Germany), Susanne Gneist, an experienced packaging and ...
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Mold-Masters signs exclusive deal to provide Ritemp™ cooling technology for hot-runners
Hot runner supplier Mold-Masters, has formalized an agreement with Ritemp™ Technologies (of Edwardstown, South Australia) through its sole Americas agent YGRENE™ Technologies Inc., for exclusive global use of their patented evaporative cooling technology in hot runner applications. ...
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Klöckner Pentaplast breaks ground for new Chinese production facility
The Klöckner Pentaplast Group announced today that it broke ground on January 18, 2012, for construction of its first manufacturing facility in China. Located 80 km west of Shanghai in the Suzhou Industrial Park in Suzhou, China, the new site will produce packaging films for the ...
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Coca-Cola Amatil New Zealand (CCANZ) unveils $15 million investment in bottle self-manufacture on top of a multi million dollar rebuild in Christchurch
Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee joined Coca-Cola Amatil New Zealand (CCANZ) today in officially opening its new beverage bottle production line at the company’s manufacturing plant in Woolston.The $15 million investment in world best-practice technology enables ...
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New World Plastics Processing Machinery study: Global Demand for Plastics Processing Machinery to Reach $28.9 Billion in 2015
Global demand for plastics processing machinery is projected to rise 6.0 percent annually through 2015 to $28.9 billion, a rebound from market declines experienced during the recession-impacted 2005-2010 period. Sales growth will be driven by an acceleration in plastic product ...
