End Markets

Packaging

In the Zone: Packaging

The Packaging Zone is the place to learn about the latest in customer product delivery.

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Recycling

Austrian Recycler's Mission to Recycle PET Takes It Beyond Bottles

Mission PET supplements bottle-to-bottle capability with alternative applications for recycled PET.

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Packaging

SI Group Gets FDA Approval Extension for Weston 705 & 705T

SI’s phosphite antioxidants get ‘green light’ for use in PET food-contact packaging

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Automation

Pipe Extruder, Die Heads Plus a Cobot Demo

NPE2024: Milacron is debuting updated extruder, control and die head packages. Also demonstrating how cobots can be used to automate pipe production.

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NPE

At NPE, Cypet to Show Latest Achievements in Large PET Containers

Maker of one-stage ISBM machines will show off new sizes and styles of handled and stackable PET containers, including novel interlocking products.

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Medical

Allegheny Performance Plastics to Enter Health Care Sector

The custom molder has secured multiple projects in health care and will be adding cleanroom and white-room spaces, as well as injection molding machines, in support.

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All-Electric IMM Advances for Packaging, Medical and LSR

NPE2024: Sumitomo SHI Demag’s show focus is on the application of all-electric injection molding machine technology for a variety of markets and components.

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Packaging

Specialized Machine, Tool Achieve Record Levels of Cap Molding

NPE2024: Netstal says its CAP-Line injection molding machine running a 128-cavity z-moulds tool will produce 26-mm tamper-evident caps for still water in just a 1.9-second cycle.

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Packaging

Composting Additive for PLA Added to FDA Inventory of Food Contact Substances

Carbios’ Active enzymatic solution for the biodegradation of PLA is now included in the FDA Inventory of Effective Food Contact Substances, enabling its use in flexible and rigid food packaging.  

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NPE

All-Electric Shuttle and Stretch-Blow Machines

NPE2024: Meccanoplastica shows off a double-sided shuttle for containers up to 5 L and a reheat stretch-blow molder for up to 2.5 L PET containers with four cavities — both all-electric.

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Process Cooling