A report from Smithers Pira expects global bioplastics for packaging industry to be worth $7.2bn, at an average rate of 17% per year between 2017 and 2022. According to the report - The Future of Bioplastics for Packaging to 2022, ...
Tags: Packaging Market, bioplastics, packaging
Barton Fabrications has installed eighth silo at Plastipak Packaging’s plant in Gresford,UK, as part of the latter’s £10m project to upgrade its preform manufacturing platform. Barton Fabrications, which has its forte in ...
Tags: drinks bottles, PET granules
The All Parliamentary Party Group on Alcohol Misuse in the UK has recommended warning labels on alcoholic drinks to mitigate related health problems in the country. The group has recommended that the bottles need to be labeled with ...
Tags: UK Parliamentary, Alcoholic Drinks, Food
Recyclable plastic packaging that will save more than a million eggs from going to waste each year has been successfully trialed by Tesco. At the moment Tesco's free range eggs are sold in pulp cartons and if an egg breaks in transit it ...
Tags: Recyclable Packaging, Wasted Eggs, packaging
The US Federal Trade Commission in July announced it had filed a complaint aimed at stopping Ardagh’s acquisition of the Verallia North America (VNA) unit, which makes jam jars and drinks bottles for the US market. Ardagh said that ...
Tags: Ardagh, Anti-Trust Issues
Sometimes polymer gets a bad press, but it remains an incredibly versatile material that we would find very difficult to live without. The word 'polymer' is often used as a synonym for plastic, but it also includes other synthetic and ...
Tags: Polymer, Processing Machinery
The four cornered lids & bases are manufactured from recycled PET made from a minimum of 50% post-consumer waste [old drinks bottles]. The two parts are supplied ready erected with corners ultrasonically welded. According to ...
As announced a couple of weeks ago, the European Union is getting ready to review its Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive, and with it the mandatory recycling targets set for packaging across the 27 member states. This is part of a ...
It’s been a hot and thirsty summer with a big demand for beverages at events around the country. That means a lot of glass bottles which can be collected and recycled into new wine, beer or soft drinks bottles ready for next summer! ...
Tags: Glass Recycling, Summer Events, Construction
The projects, which will be piloted in Scotland, offer people a range of incentives, such as money back, discount vouchers or vouchers for donations to charities, for recycling glass, aluminium and plastic (PET) drinks containers. The aim ...
Tags: Recycle, drinks containers
McNaney came up with the Filabot as a cheap alternative to the spools of filament used by 3D printers. Filabot can take scrap plastic, including plastic from 3D objects, and grinds, melts, and re-extrudes it back into printable feedstock. ...
Beverages company Coca-Cola is adopting the British Retail Consortium’s (BRC’s) On-Pack Recycling Label (OPRL), in a bid to lessen the proportion of plastic drinks bottles going to landfill. Through the OPRL system, Coke will ...
Machinery executives say U.S. sales of blow molding machinery have held up in 2011, following a 2010 that was marked by a strong bounce-back from the Great Recession. Makers of packaging — PET blow molders and extrusion blow molders ...
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