Posted by Rick Lingle,Technical Editor--Packaging Digest,12/19/2012 4:26:01 PM Canadian Plastics Industry Association(CPIA)released a new report that the amount of post-consumer plastic recycled in Canada has increased in 2011.An ...
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Amcor has announced that the company’s profit after tax (PAT) before significant items increased by 11.3% to $634.9m for the year ended 30 June 2012. Amcor managing director and CEO Ken MacKenzie said its full year result ...
Sonoco Plastics has announced the commencement of rigid plastic containers production for personal care products at its new $15m plant in the Beauty and Home Care campus in New Albany, Ohio, US. Sonoco Rigid Plastics vice president Rodger ...
Rigid plastics firm Pact Group has bought the Viscount Plastics division from Linpac, for an undisclosed sum Australia-based Viscount Plastics, with its production facilities in Australia, New Zealand, China and Malaysia, manufactures and ...
Old South Foods, a leading bottler and co-packer of restaurant foods, has converted its 16-ounce barbecue sauce decanter from glass to hot fill polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles from Amcor Rigid Plastics, the world's leading producer ...
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Amcor Rigid Plastics has supplied hot fill polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles to Old South Foods, a bottler and co-packer of restaurant foods to replace its 16oz barbecue sauce decanter from glass. According to Amcor, the ...
The Canadian Plastics Industry Association (CPIA) has released a new report which informs that the recycling efforts by Canadians have increased the amount of post-consumer plastic packaging being recycled across the country. Moore ...
Thwing-Albert's FP-2255 will be replaced with a new model the FP-2260 Friction/Peel Tester. The new instrument will now run with MAP-4 materials testing software allowing for more powerful reporting and compatibility with newer operating ...
Amcor Rigid Plastics has supplied 200ml barrier polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles to spirit company in the US Beam for the launch of its Skinnyminis, a four-pack offering of the Skinnygirl Margarita ready-to-serve cocktail. The new ...
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Plastic packaging producer in the US, Amcor Rigid Plastics is set to develop its polyethylene terephthalate (PET) wine bottles with both synthetic and natural corks. The addition of corks to the PET wine bottles makes them look like ...
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Rigid plastic packaging producer Amcor Rigid Plastics and Italian manufacturer of compression molding equipment, Sacmi have announced the commercialization of the Compression Blow Forming (CBF) machine for the production of rigid HDPE ...
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The global packaging giant posted its results for the year ended 30 June 2012 this morning (21 August). It said that it had achieved record profit after tax of $634.9m, up 11.3%, compared to the same period last year. It also announced ...
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Sonoco Products Co. announced two expansions to its growing plastics packaging business this week. The newest: 18,000 square feet of space at its Waynesville, N.C., plant, where it plans to start up a new multilayer, trim-in-place ...
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The Canadian Plastics Industry Association (CPIA) released a new report informing Canadians that their recycling efforts have increased the amount of post-consumer plastic packaging being recycled across Canada. An additional 15% of plastic ...
Sacmi, the industry's leading manufacturer of compression molding equipment for closures, created a breakthrough process which combines compression molding and blow molding that delivers significant advantages over conventional processes, ...
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