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Oben Group announced the acquisition of Poligal Group

Oben Group announced the acquisition of Poligal Group, effective February 25, 2021. This acquisition includes the BOPP and CPP production plants in Portugal and Poland, commercial offices in Germany and an extensive sales and distribution network throughout Europe.

2021-03-04 packagings

Big Bottling Company invests in a powerful PET line from KHS

With over 200 million inhabitants Nigeria is already by far the most heavily populated country in Africa. In the next 30 years the United Nations reckon on this number doubling, meaning that by 2050 around 410 million people will live here.

2021-02-02 machine industry

PET to PET increases capacities for food-grade rPET with new Starlinger line

The Austrian recycling company installed another Starlinger bottle-to-bottle recycling system including SSP (solid state polycondensation) reactor at their production site in Müllendorf, Austria.

2021-02-01 machine industry

Alpla expediting a bottle cycle in Italy

The global manufacturer of plastic packaging and recycling specialist, the Alpla Group, is investing more than five million euros in an extrusion system for food-grade recycled PET (rPET) made of used PET bottles (so-called post-consumer material) at its site in Anagni.

2021-01-28 investments

Demand for Erema PET recycling technologies continues to grow

The recycling of PET bottles has gained worldwide acceptance over the past 20 years and has become a model for the circular economy in plastics.

2020-12-15 recycling

Protein-rich juice hits Colombian shelves in Amcor PET bottle

Amcor has developed a new hot-fill polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottle for Colombia’s Nutrea/Frudelca’s breakthrough Frupro protein juice.

2020-12-08 packaging industry

Drinktec 2021: “Personal exchange is crucial”

At a time when major exhibitions have been canceled, postponed or downscaled in the throes of the corona pandemic, many eyes are turned towards drinktec, the world’s leading trade show for the beverage and liquid food industry.

2020-12-01 fairs

BTB PET Recycling further increases capacities

During the Corona Lockdown in spring 2020 German PET recycler BTB PET-Recycling GmbH & Co. KG installed a new preheating unit and another SSP reactor supplied by Starlinger recycling technology.

2020-11-24 machine industry

Alpla Group: new CEO from 2021

The Management Board of the Alpla Group is being restructured – Philipp Lehner will succeed Günther Lehner as CEO on 1 January 2021. Günther Lehner will assume the position of Chairman.

2020-11-12 packagings

A beverage sector in flux works on sustainable bottle concepts for the future

No other issue is currently of greater concern to drinks manufacturers than the choice of material for bottles.

2020-10-27 packaging industry

The world’s first carbon-neutral rPET

Global manufacturer of plastic packaging and recycling specialist the Alpla Group is unveiling the world’s first carbon-neutral recycled PET.

2020-10-12 packaging industry

Krones and innocent are building a CO2-neutral bottling plant

Following long years of contract-bottling, the smoothie and juice producer innocent has decided to build the very first bottling plant of its own. Krones won the order for four complete PET bottling lines and the corresponding IT landscape.

2020-08-25 bottles