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New Cap for Child-Resistant Pill Bottles Is Senior-Friendly & Saves Resin
Exclusive lightweight cap design can be removed simply pushing down on the center. No gripping or twisting needed.
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New Inspection Systems for Caps at K 2022
Improved separation and simpler inspection of tethered caps; cloud-based remote data access; new cap-tightening evaluation; and new sanitary washdown design.
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Handheld NIR Instrument Distinguishes PET from PETG
Mobile spectroscopy from trinamiX detects more than 30 different plastics—and now PET vs. PETG as an aid to recycling.
Read MoreComprehensive Optical Inspection for PET Preforms
Delta Engineering teams with Intravis to inspect preform mouth, body, thread and color.
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K 2022: ‘We’ve Been Waiting 40 Years!’
With sustainability top-of-mind in the plastics industry, this was a ground-breaking show for builders of recycling equipment. It also prompted new thinking in thinwall injection molding.
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Injection Machines Use Novel Two-Stage Molding System
EdeX servohydraulic presses from Taiwan are the first to employ the Inject-EX plasticating system from Md Plastics.
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Canadian Project Shows Digital Watermarks Aid Sortation of Flexible Packaging
First North American demo of “invisible” digital watermarks for mixed-waste plastics sortation proves the technology’s effectiveness with films and flexibles.
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All-rPET Bottles with Glued-in Handles Save Material
At K 2022, KHS is showing a 2.3 L PET bottle with glued-in handle that offers 10% material savings and other advantages over clip-in handles. Bottle and handle are both 100% rPET.
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Old Fishing Nets to Child’s Watering Can: Blow Molding rPE at K Show
High-quality marine recyclate is suited to continuous-extrusion blow molding without an accumulator head.
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Of Covered Bridges and Recycling
It may seem like a long way around to the subject of recycling, but a recent drive over an old bridge led to an opportunity to spread the new gospel of chemical recycling.
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Energy-Saving Accumulator-Head Blow Molder
ST BlowMoulding’s new AX 880 has all-electric clamping, electro-hydraulic parison push-out, and twin adiabatic extruders.
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Sidel Opens New R&D Hub to Study Design for Recycling PET Packaging
Sidel’s small-scale recycling line in France will study different PCR materials for bottle-to-bottle rPET recycling.
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