Amcor Rigid Plastics has joined 'The Recycling Partnership', an industry-funded program designed to increase residential recycling in the US. The program is also supported by Alcoa Foundation, American Chemistry Council, American Forest ...
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Specialist woodwork treatment supplier Alfred Clouth Lackfabrik has switched one of its leading brands from tin to rigid plastics with the introduction of a new plastic jar manufactured by RPC Bramlage-Wiko. The new jar for Clou Holzpaste ...
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Packaging firm Sonoco's rigid plastics facility in the US has secured LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Silver Certification from the US Green Building Council. Located in the Beauty and Home Care Campus of New ...
Six major categories of plastic packaging help to significantly reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions compared to packaging alternatives made with other materials. A recent study: "Impact of Plastics Packaging on Life Cycle ...
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The recycling of rigid plastics excluding bottles rose to nearly 1.02 billion pounds in 2012, an increase of 10 percent over 2011 and triple the amount recycled in 2007 when the industry first began tracking rigid plastics recycling. The ...
Market research firm Canadean has rsaid the Japanese plastic packaging industry is in rapid growth, with flexible and rigid plastics packaging demand projected to increase by 6.9 billion packs between 2012 and 2017. “Japanese ...
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"The result for the first half of the financial year reflected solid growth in emerging markets, ongoing operating improvements and the benefits from recent acquisitions. Earnings per share, for the continuing operations, increased 22% to ...
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Continuous development and innovation over recent years has brought focus to this material and attracting increased producer attention within the beverage industry. A senior analysts at Canadean told Packaging News: “Continuous ...
UK-based Plastics scrap trading firm GFSL will unveil a new mixed rigid plastic recycling plant at the Wilton International estate in Redcar. The company's new plant will process about 20,000 tonnes of mixed rigid plastics annually with a ...
Amcor is in the process of acquiring some of the assets of PET pioneer company, Constar International Holdings LLC. Constar goes back to the 1960s and developed the two litre PET soda bottle in the 1980s. Constar has been working its way ...
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Society of the Plastics Industry (SPI) will collaborate with American Chemistry Council's (ACC) Plastics division to work on issues like recycling and growth opportunities of rigid packaging. Under the partnership, the ACC's Rigid ...
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Plastic packaging manufacturer Amcor Rigid Plastics will sponsor for the America Recycles Day 2013, a national initiative of the US-based non-profit organization Keep America Beautiful. The manufacturer will join Anheuser-Busch, the ...
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Plastic bottle recycling by consumers increased 161 million pounds in 2012, edging up 6.2 percent, to reach nearly 2.8 billion pounds for the year, according to figures released jointly today by the Association of Postconsumer Plastic ...
Empresas Polar, a leading Venezuelan food and beverage manufacturer, has broken new ground with the commercial launch of the first ambient stored yogurt in Venezuela. The non-refrigerated pourable yogurt, called MiGurt, is packaged in an ...
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Amcor Rigid Plastics has supplied a new aseptically filled, 750g barrier polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottle to Venezuela-based food and beverage manufacturer Empresas Polar for the launch of its pourable yogurt. The barrier PET ...
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