Japanese retail packaging is as culturally unique to Japan as its language, traditional dress and customs, and it took four days at Tokyo Pack 2014 to begin to make sense of characteristic traits in pack construction and consumer ...
Tags: retail packaging, Packaging
Sidel, provider of PET solutions for liquid packaging, has launched an online PET savings calculator which is aimed at reducing the amount of PET used in beverage bottles worldwide. The calculator will allow manufacturers to calculate ...
Tags: Calculator, Online PET, Agriculture
A new polypropylene plant will come up at IndianOil’s Paradip Refinery Project complex at Paradip in India’s eastern coastal state of Odisha. Foundation for the Rs 3150 crore polypropylene plant was laid by Minister of State ...
Tags: polypropylene plant, catalyst, Textile
There were 230 entries submitted into this year’s German Packaging Award. NMP Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of KHS, wowed the judges by putting together two of its prototypes. NMP’s Direct Print and Nature MultiPack ...
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The latest report by the National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR) and the Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR) has revealed that the US recorded a recycling rate of 31.2% for PET bottles last year. This ...
Tags: Pet Bottles, Bottles Packaging
Rigid plastic producers Amcor Rigid Plastics will soon operate an on-site production facility within Method’s manufacturing facility in Chicago to produce 100% PCR polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles. Method produces ...
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Coca-Cola is making additional investment in Virent's bio-based paraxylene BioFormPX demonstration facility in Wisconsin, US. Virent has said that the investment will help in scaling up separation and purification of BioFormPX at the ...
Europe recycled close to 65 billion PET bottles in 2013, as per the figures released by European non-profit trade association Petcore Europe. This is a 7% increase in the number of recycled bottles over the 2012 figures. The ...
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While this decline was spread across all three market sectors — light metal packaging, steel drums and similar containers, and other containers (of a capacity exceeding 300 litres — it was most substantial in the light metal ...
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Agr International is taking its latest products for quality management and process control for the packaging industry to Pack Expo. Why should you pay attention? Because standing still is not an option for producers, converters and ...
Filing and packaging equipment manufacturer KHS has expanded its roll-fed labeling machine series Innoket 360 with Innoket 360 Duo, which has two stations and a production capacity of 60,000 PET bottles an hour. The new machine is an ...
Tags: KHS, Roll-Fed Labeling Machine, Packaging
The Union Minister of Finance Shri Arun Jaitley announced the Union Budget for the financial year 2014-15. In a statement Shri Manikam Ramaswami, Chairman, Texprocil welcomed the various announcements and stated the budget in general ...
Tags: The Union Budget, Apparel, Accessories
Portugal-based PET bottles producer Gepack has announced plans to build a new manufacturing facility in Arizona, US. In the later part of the year, Gepack USA will construct a 12,000ft2 facility near Phoenix in Peoria of Arizona. The ...
The FMCG giant, one of the UK’s biggest users of packaging, has released its latest sustainability update which said it used around 178,000 tonnes of packaging, including glass, aluminium and PET (polyethylene terephthalate) plastic, ...
Sidel, a global provider of liquid packaging solutions, has announced that it was awarded a major project in Ikeja, Nigeria, by the Nigerian Bottling Company, a member of the Coca-Cola HBC, one of the world’s largest bottlers of ...
Tags: Sidel, Coca-Cola Contracts