France-based packaging equipment manufacturer Sidel has partnered with Brazilian oil producer Algar Agro to develop the world's lightest 900ml PET bottle for edible oil . The partners redesigned and developed the new PET bottle and ...
Tags: PET Bottle, Edible Oil
Around the globe consumers are finding that juices and sports drinks are a healthy alternative to what are often rather sugary soft drinks. Bottlers who want to muscle in on this growth market have to satisfy the special technical demands ...
Tags: Coca-Cola, Sports Beverages
Amcor will discuss its approach to sustainability and highlight a broad range of innovative packaging solutions at the SustPack 2016 conference planned to be held from 11-13 April at McCormick Place in Chicago. Under its theme of ...
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MARTENS Brewery is leveraging their Direct Print industrial scale digital printing technology from KHS to renovate the look and feel of their own brand, MARTENS Pils, by eliminating labels altogether resulting in a visually appealing, ...
Tags: MARTENS Brewery, Direct Print, KHS, PET Package
A Belgian brewery has announced it will do away with labels for its PET bottles. Martens Brewery, which became known for its digitally printed PET bottles late last year, is again leveraging Direct Print industrial-scale digital printing ...
Tags: Brewery, PET bottles, Labels
Rigid plastics, flexibles, and board, metal and glass packaging will drive industry expansion across the next five years. In global researcher Smithers Pira's report, called The Future of Global Packaging to 2020, it states that the $839 ...
Tags: Smith Pira, Rigid plastics, Packaging Market
A mineral water bottling plant in Warburg, Germany will start using the InnoPET Blomax stretch blow-moulder from packaging systems manufacturer KHS this month. The bottler, Germete, fills in and sells over 340 million litres of mineral ...
Tags: Packaging, Stretch Blow-Moulder, KHS, Pet Bottling Line, InnoPET
Amcor Rigid Plastics has created a new business platform that will promote small-volume bottles production for start-ups in the beverage industry. As part of its UpStart program, Amcor will collaborate with start-ups like Alkaline Water ...
Shrink sleeve films are one of the fastest growing label segments, in large part due to the shelf impact created by their ability to provide a 360-degree product presentation. According to US firm AWA Alexander Watson Associates, shrink ...
President of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama has commissioned Kasapreko's new beverage bottling plant in a bid to meet demands in domestic and international beverage markets. Alcoholic drinks producer Kasapreko's new facility is valued at ...
Filling and packaging systems manufacturer KHS has paved the way for smaller PET bottles with the launch of a new coating machine. Designed to produce bottles with volumes ranging from 100ml to 350ml, the machine is called the Plasmax ...
Tags: PET Bottles, Glass Coating, packaging, coating machine
A lightweight PET milk bottle has won recognition in the World Beverage Innovation Awards in Nuremberg. At this year's BrauBeviale, the product from filling and packaging specialist KHS GmbH won in the Best Environmental Sustainability ...
Tags: PET milk bottle, filling, packaging
Adhesives manufacturer Lintec was recognised for its sustainability achievements at Labelexpo. The company has led the way in replacing solvent pressure sensitive adhesives with solvent-free pressure sensitive adhesives through its Kinath ...
Tags: Lintec, Adhesives, PET film labels
Huntsman Corporation has announced that its Polyurethanes Division recycled the equivalent of nearly 1 billion 500ml plastic bottles into its TEROL aromatic polyester polyols line in 2014. As part of Huntsman’s commitment to ...
Tags: Huntsman, PET, plastic bottles, polyols
Orora Limited was recognised in the Best Process Innovation category at the 2015 BRW Most Innovative Companies Awards in Sydney this week. This is Orora's second year to be considered as one of the 50 most innovative companies in ...
Tags: packaging carriage, packaging technology, packaging material