Plastic bottle recycling by consumers increased 161 million pounds in 2012, edging up 6.2 percent, to reach nearly 2.8 billion pounds for the year, according to figures released jointly today by the Association of Postconsumer Plastic ...
Sweden-based Rosti Group has completed the acquisition of majority shares in Turkish injection molder Tebplast Plastik (Tebplast) from the Teber family. Tebplast will be integrated into Rosti Group's packaging division and operate ...
Tags: Rosti Group, Injection Molder
North America is the world's largest consumer of packaging. Since a brief dip in 2009, the North American packaging market has recently been growing steadily. Although market sentiment is still cautious in the region, the North American ...
North America is the world's largest consumer of packaging. Since a brief dip in 2009, the North American packaging market has recently been growing steadily. Although market sentiment is still cautious in the region, the North American ...
Tags: Packaging Market, Packaging, Printing
As the company was looking for a sound investment, it decided to invest in two Sidel Matrix blowers over two years. The investment allowed Alpla to produce bottles for the full range of Coca-Cola branded products on behalf of client ...
Tags: Alpla Mexico, Packaging
The supply of recycled material is not the issue; demand for recycled material has to be created by innovation in the sector. I recently presented a selection of the packaging-related outputs of BFF's work with Defra to develop a UK Soft ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Plastics Recycling
Last month, international packaging company Plastic Ingenuity made an impression at Pack Expo 2013 by demonstrating its latest technological innovation. The newly patented process has already made an impact in the industry. A new, ...
US-based blow-molded plastic packaging supplier Consolidated Container Company (CCC) has signed a deal to buy all the assets of polypropylene containers manufacturer Shelburne Plastics. As part of the deal, Shelburne's plants will operate ...
The Dow Chemical Company’s Performance Packaging business announced today at the K 2013 fair in Düsseldorf, Germany, it is expanding its portfolio of DOWLEX Polyethylene resins with the addition of the DOWLEX 6001GC grade. This ...
Multi-material food packaging manufacturer Linpac Packaging has welcomed the European Food Safety Authority’s (EFSA) decision to give an official positive opinion regarding the super-cleaning process used in its factories in Spain, ...
Tags: food packaging, Multi-material
UK-based rigid plastics packaging manufacturer RPC Group has selected clear polypropylene (PP) for sustainable packaging application for some of its products. The company uses PP for majority of its thermoformed, blow molded and thin ...
Tags: rigid plastics, Polypropylene
Consolidated Container, a US-based developer and manufacturer of rigid plastic packaging solutions, has completed the sale of its Mexican polycarbonate bottle manufacturing business to a local private equity group Davinci Capital. The ...
US-based manufacturer of custom plastic packaging RNR Plastics has launched a line of non-adhesive vinyl label holders known as Magna-Hinge. RNR Magna-Hinge vinyl pockets are 10-gauge PVC pouches that can easily be attached and removed ...
Tags: RNR Plastics, Vinyl Label
The Demand for plastic packaging products is on the rise, and this is also resulting in increasing demand for plastic injection moulding machines. This is because the plastic materials are imported as preforms and require to be finished in ...
Alpla India, a producer of plastic packaging products, has established its first technology center valued at INR200m ($3.2m) at its Pashmylaram facility in Andhra Pradesh. The company has invested about INR1.5bn ($24.2m) in its facility, ...