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KHS and Martens strengthen their partnership

KHS and Martens strengthen their partnership

KHS and Martens are continuing to pursue their mutual strategy of reducing packaging materials. Only last year the traditional Belgian brewery invested in an Innopack Nature MultiPack machine that forms PET bottles into stable packs with the help of dots of adhesive.

Advancing circularity via various approaches

Advancing circularity via various approaches

A circular economy is one that is restorative and regenerative by design. It takes “a systemic approach to economic development that is designed to benefit businesses, society, and the environment.”

Alpla UK to focus on regional PET recyclate

Alpla UK to focus on regional PET recyclate

Alpla UK, a subsidiary of the Alpla Group, a leading plastic packaging company, will henceforth be cooperating with the British waste management company Biffa. With this collaboration, Alpla will increase the proportion of British recyclate used in the United Kingdom to manufacture packaging for home care products.

AST Group and Lindner launch centre of competence

AST Group and Lindner launch centre of competence

The European manufacturer of plastic containers, drums and bottles, AST, has set a long-term target to increase the amount of recyclates used in its products and aims to supply their own ‘raw materials’.

Eco-consciousness dominating the packaging sector

Eco-consciousness dominating the packaging sector

Environmental factors and sustainability continue to dominate the efforts to develop new types of plastic packaging, as well as, in some cases, alternatives to plastic packaging. Here are just a few recent examples.