Trade association for the UK Plastic Industry, the British Plastics Federation (BPF) has stressed on the resource efficiency and benefits of rigid plastics packaging while responding to the UK Government’s Consultation on the Waste ...
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The recycling of rigid plastics, excluding bottles, climbed 13 percent in 2011 to reach at least 934 million pounds for the year, and U.S. consumers with local access to recycle all non-bottle rigid plastics shot from 40 percent to 57 ...
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UK-based manufacturer and supplier of rigid plastics Kobusch has installed an inline sheet line at its Stanley operation with an investment of 3m Euro. The new rPET line uses a Vacurema system from Austria-based Erema and SML. Kobusch ...
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· Profit after tax before significant items of $322.0 million, up 5.7%; · The translation impact from the higher Australian dollar on profit after tax and before significant items was negative $20 million. On ...
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The industry's lightest 64-oz hot-fill polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottle establishes a new standard for the size category. The unique stock container for juices and teas from Amcor Rigid Plastics delivers major sustainability ...
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Plastic packaging producer Amcor Rigid Plastics has developed the new 64oz hot fill polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottle for juices and teas. The new lightest stock container uses novel design, tooling and process technologies to cut ...
Robert Mann Packaging acquires Cypress Packaging and Supply Robert Mann Packaging (RMP), a corrugated/carton company in Salinas, CA, has acquired Castroville, CA-based Cypress Packaging and Supply, a supplier of corrugated packaging and ...
Amcor Rigid Plastics has announced plans to invest $20m to expand its southeastern US bottle manufacturing operation in Orlando, Florida, in a bid to address growing market demand for beverage and pharmaceutical packaging. According to ...
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Amcor Rigid Plastics, a producer of rigid plastic packaging in the US has expanded the use of roll-on pilfer-proof (ROPP) finish design for aluminum screw-cap PET bottles to meet the increasing demand for premium packaging of wines and ...
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PPG Industries' automotive refinish business has expanded the PPG Global Refinish System line with the addition of two new versatile, reduced-gloss clearcoats, D8115 Matte and D8117 Semi-Gloss. The new clearcoats make up the Matte ...
PPG Industries'(NYSE:PPG)automotive refinish business has expanded the PPG GLOBAL REFINISH SYSTEM line with the addition of two new versatile,reduced-gloss clearcoats,D8115 Matte and D8117 Semi-Gloss.The new clearcoats make up the Matte ...
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It's a staggering figure – around 2.9m tonnes of food and drink is wasted each year, according to Wrap. It's a number that's been troubling politicians and environmentalists but it is a problem that packaging can help tackle. And ...
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Packaging is increasingly recognised as a vital weapon in the fight against food waste. Philip Chadwick reports on how the flexible plastics sector is innovating to play its part in packaging's biggest challenge It's a staggering figure ...
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Canadian Plastics Industry Association (CPIA) has released a new report which indicates that the amount of post-consumer plastic recycled in Canada has increased in 2011. According to the report in total, more than 268.5 million kilograms ...
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PPG Automotive Refinish has announced the availability of its new DPLV 2.1 VOC-compliant series of epoxy primers. The multipurpose primers build on the success of the DPLF primers and take them to a more technologically advanced and ...
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