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2012-08-13 1:30 min Europe, Preform moulding

APPE’s Polish factory anticipates 1 billion units in five years

APPE, the packaging division of LSB, says building work at its new Polish factory is ...

2012-08-10 0:50 min Regions

INVISTA acquires intellectual property and licensing rights for PTA, PET and related technologies in Europe, the Middle East and Africa

INVISTA Performance Technologies has acquired from La Seda de Barcelona SA intellectual property relating to its leading purified terephthalic acid (PTA), polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and related process technologies, including the full rights to exclusively license the ...

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 ...

2012-06-15 1:59 min Regions

Bronco Wine Co. expands penetration in 187ml wine category with lightweight PET bottles

Bronco Wine Co., Ceres, Calif., a major supplier of varietal wines, is establishing ...

2012-06-14 1:56 min Regions

50 Years of KHS Brazil

In June 2012 international manufacturer of filling and packaging systems for the beverage, food, and non-food industries KHS is celebrating its 50th anniversary at its production site in Brazil. KHS GmbH is seen as being a reliable partner by a broad customer base across Latin ...

2012-06-11 1:39 min Regions

Recycling of plastic packaging across Canada increases by 15% in a single year

The Canadian Plastics Industry Association (CPIA) released a new report today informing Canadians that their recycling efforts have increased the amount of post-consumer plastic packaging being recycled across Canada. An additional 15% of plastic packaging was recycled in 2010 ...

2012-04-23 0:35 min Regions

Husky completes sale of Injectoplast to Alpla

Husky Injection Molding Systems today announced it has completed the sale of Injectoplast, the former closure injection molding operation of KTW, to Alpla Holding GmbH (A-6971 Hard, Austria). The sale agreement was announced January 24, 2012.Injectoplast was a division of KTW, a ...

2012-04-23 5:49 min Regions

100 million euros in Asia – capacity in Shanghai doubled

In the fiscal year 2011/2012, ENGEL AUSTRIA generated sales of over € 100 million in ...

2012-04-17 0:56 min Regions

Alcohol manufacturer Pramia expands into the processing of recycled plastics

In Jalasjärvi, there already exists a strong commitment to the environment which Pramia isexpanding. Pramia’s ownership has extended into Toholampi, Central Ostrobothnia, with apreviously owned facility processing PET plastic bottles into new materials. This will continue tooperate ...