SACRAMENTO, CALIF. — Nestlé Waters, manufacturer of Arrowhead brand bottled water, has committed to using 50 percent recycled content in its water bottles, according to Californians Against Waste.
ANN ARBOR, MICH. — Amcor Rigid Plastics says it has created the lightest 64-ounce hot-fill PET container of its kind, weighing only 59 grams.
BARCELONA, SPAIN — Spanish PET and packaging group La Seda de Barcelona (LSB) announced it has reached an outline deal with banks coordinating its syndicated loan in the process of renegotiating its debts.
BENSHEIM, GERMANY — German plastic packaging manufacturer Sanner GmbH is focusing on expanding in Asia after seeing its total corporate sales increase 12.5 percent to 50.6 million euros ($62.3 million) in 2012.
SHANGHAI — China's macro economy may be showing signs of softness, but global automotive plastic component makers at the Auto Shanghai fair had few, if any, plans to hit the brakes with their investments.
CHICAGO — A newly designed bottle is only part of Merijn Everaarts business plan to get consumers to ditch disposable water bottles. The rest relies on a smartphone app that leads consumers to public water spots.
HARD, AUSTRIA — Austrian plastics molder Alpla Holding GmbH has opened a new 9 million euro ($11.8 million) PET recycling plant in the Radomsko district of the special economic zone of Lodz, Poland.
MEXICO CITY -- Industrial packaging manufacturer Mauser Group has started operating an intermediate bulk container-producing joint venture with Mexican company Plastienvases SA de CV.
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND -- DuPont Co. has developed an innovative automotive jounce bumper component to show how design, materials and processing can converge to deliver added performance and lower cost.
PURCHASE, N.Y. — PepsiCo Inc. will introduce a new bottle shape for the first time in 16 years, along with new graphics, this month.
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