Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE), a marketer, producer, and distributor of Coca-Cola products will announce two new sustainability proposals that obligate the company to setting the standard for sustainable packaging, achieving zero waste. In ...
Posted by Rick Lingle, Technical Editor -- Packaging Digest, 12/5/2012 2:40:44 PM Redhook Brewery is well-known for its sustainability practices, partnering with EcoMovement Consulting & Hauling, of Dover, for example, on a ...
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Marglen Industries has been cited for two violations totalling nearly $70,000 after a worker’s fingers were amputated while working on a machine. The US Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration ...
Tags: OSHA, citation, PET, resin, worker injury
North American packaging recycler, Sonoco Recycling, a unit of Sonoco has announced that Sonoco CorrFlex's Winston Salem, North Carolina facility has secured a silver-tier Sonoco Sustainability Star Award for diverting a minimum of 95% of ...
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Investment company Ludgate Environmental Fund (LEF) has announced its participation in a funding round into plastic bottle recycler PlasticsECO to finance continued expansion over 2013. According to LEF, ECO Plastics is raising a total of ...
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US manufacturer of sheet extrusion machinery Processing Technologies International (PTi) has announced the sale of a new sheet extrusion system to Aserpet, a PET recycler. Turkey-based Aserpet has purchased the machinery as part of its ...
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Global aluminum company and recycler of beverage cans Novelis has announced the opening of its new Global Research & Technology Center outside of Atlanta, Georgia, US, which serves as the global hub of the company's research and development ...
Global recycler of aluminum beverage cans Novelis has reported a rise in the recycled content of its products from 33% to 39% in the first year since announcing its goal to achieve 80% recycled content by 2020. The US-based company ...
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Cleaning product company Method is all set to launch its two-in-one hand and dish soap in new bottles made from a combination of plastic recovered from the ocean and post-consumer recycled plastic. Method co-founder and chief greenskeeper ...
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Novelis has opened a new aluminum recycling and casting center at its Yeongju, South Korea facility, which is part of a multi-year, $400m expansion of the company’s operations in Korea. The new aluminum beverage can recycling ...
Tags: Aluminum Beverage Can, Recycling Facility, aluminum recycling
Novelis, a provider of aluminum automotive sheet, said that its material is used in the first full-production vehicle from Mercedes-Benz model with a structure designed in aluminum. The company had supplied rolled products and aluminum ...
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Closer partnerships between textile recyclers, local authorities and waste management companies can play a major role in diverting greater volumes of discarded clothing and household textiles from landfill, delegates at the UK’s ...
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Germany-based Ettlinger Kunststoffmaschinen GmbH has sold five of its rotation filters to North American customers since it launched Ettlinger North America last year, officials said at a KraussMaffei Corp. open house. Ettlinger will open a ...
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The Yeongju recycling centre is part of a multi-year, $400 million expansion of Novelis' operations in Korea. According to the aluminium recycler, Asia is the world's fastest growing market for rolled aluminum used to create beverage ...
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WEEE recycler SWEEEP Kuusaksoki has installed the ‘world’s first’ glass furnace capable of recovering pure glass and lead from leaded cathode ray tube (CRT) glass, at its facility in Sittingbourne, Kent. The furnace, which ...
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