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GREENSBORO, N.C. (Feb. 3, 11:55 a.m. ET) -- Intertech Corp. recently added a Graham shuttle blow molding machine to meet growing demand for custom bottles and containers.
February 3, 2012
AS, CZECH REPUBLIC (Feb. 2, 2:15 p.m. ET) -- Plastics packaging technology specialist Petainer Czech Holdings sro has developed a PET refillable bottle, claiming to “further improve the sustainability of what is already one of the most environmentally friendly forms of beverage packaging.”
February 2, 2012
CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA (Jan. 31, 8 a.m.ET) -- The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has delayed releasing its findings into three separate proposed acquisitions of plastics companies.
January 31, 2012
MEXICO CITY (Jan. 30, 3:40 p.m. ET) -- Coca-Cola Co. will invest in excess of $1 billion in Mexico in 2012, CEO Muhtar Kent said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 28.
January 30, 2012
ORLANDO, FLA. (Jan. 27, 12:35 p.m. ET) -- Those NPE travel plans set in stone from years past are in desperate need of a refresher. Here are some tips to help out-of-town travelers prepare for the April 1-5 trade show in Orlando.
January 27, 2012
OOSTBURG, WIS. (Jan. 26, 11:20 p.m. ET) -- Dutchland Plastics Corp., a Wisconsin-based rotational and blow molder, has purchased the assets of Continental Southern Industries Inc., an industrial blow molder in Greenville, S.C.
January 26, 2012
NEWTOWN, CONN. (Jan. 20, 12:25 p.m. ET) -- The new CEO of the Society of Plastics Engineers believes speed is important in solving many of the challenges facing the plastics industry. “I’m pretty direct and I like things to move fast,” said Willem De Vos, a plastics and SPE veteran who took the reins Jan. 19. “The plastics industry has changed a lot in the past two decades.”
January 20, 2012
HOUSTON (Jan. 20, 10:35 a.m. ET) -- Industrial packaging supplier Mauser AG is boosting its intermediate bulk container capacity in the United States by 70 percent with the addition of a blow molding machine in its Houston facility.
January 20, 2012
SACRAMENTO, CALIF. (Jan. 19, 2:15 p.m. ET) -- California has eliminated a controversial loophole that has allowed plastic container manufacturers to switch to a lighter weight resin and gain an exemption from the state’s 20-year-old rigid plastic packaging container law that governs recycled content.
January 19, 2012
CINCINNATI (Jan. 19, 1:25 p.m. ET) -- Milacron LLC, in a hiring mode thanks to the rebounding plastics machinery market, is moving to support vocational education in southwestern Ohio.
January 19, 2012
CHARLESTON, W.VA. (Jan. 18, 12:20 p.m. ET) -- Lawmakers in West Virginia have proposed a statewide 5-cent plastic bag tax along with a 5-cent bottle deposit bill.
January 18, 2012
LONDON (Updated Jan. 18, 4 p.m. ET) -- Packaging major DS Smith plc of
London has agreed to buy the packaging division of Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget of
Stockholm, Sweden, for 1.7 billion euros ($2.17 billion) on a debt-free basis. Although each company has plastics operations, the deal is largely aimed at DS Smith boosting its stake in recycled paper packaging in
Europe.
January 17, 2012
ANN ARBOR, MICH. (Jan. 13, 10:55 a.m. ET) -- Certifying that products, resins and packaging can use the compostable logo from the Biodegradable Products Institute will now by done by NSF International under an agreement reached by the two organizations.
January 13, 2012
ZELL, GERMANY (Jan. 13, 10 a.m. ET) -- Hungarian plastics packaging producer Pannunion Packaging plc, which was recently purchased by U.S. investment firm Sun Capital Partners, has been absorbed by Sun’s pan-European rigid packaging offshoot, Paccor International GmbH.
January 13, 2012
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA (Jan. 12, 1:50 p.m. ET) -- The company that produces Coca-Cola in Australia says the technology for self-manufacturing lighter PET beverage bottles is reducing the carbon footprint of each bottle by 22 percent.
January 12, 2012
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