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Greiner Packaging uses high-quality servo-controlled UV screen printing for bottles

Greiner Packaging uses high-quality servo-controlled UV screen printing for bottles

Greiner Packaging is investing in innovative printing technology: Using a new servo-controlled UV-colour screen printing machine means that the decoration variants for plastic bottles have been significantly extended. Bisphenol-free baby bottles, Kavodrink bottles and containers with complex shapes can be printed individually and to a high standard of quality.

New machine launched by Multivac

New machine launched by Multivac

Multivac has developed a concept for integrating equipment for the high pressure treatment of foods into fully automatic packaging lines.

Engel joinmelt achieves new savings

Engel joinmelt achieves new savings

In collaboration with partners Hummel-Formen and KVT Bielefeld, Engel blazes the trail for a new dimension in process integration. The Engel joinmelt process supports hot gas welding directly in the mould.

Sustainable packaging: eco-friendly and unbreakable

Sustainable packaging: eco-friendly and unbreakable

Sustainability is steadily gaining in importance for consumers. They want ethically and ecologically impeccable products, packaged in a resource-conserving manner that nevertheless ensures their perfect condition when purchased. This is a major challenge to packaging producers, as the industry wants to save on materials without compromising the stability of the packaging in any way.

Students developed a system that transforms plastic waste into alternative fuel

Students developed a system that transforms plastic waste into alternative fuel

At Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, under the direction of Yiannis Levendis, professor of mechanical and industrial engineering, a group of undergraduate and postgraduate students of engineering have designed a combustion chamber that converts plastic waste into clean energy and reduces the minimum release of harmful emissions.