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New Name, Products, Technology— But Same Service Philosophy
Schoeneck Containers is now Radius Packaging, but customer needs are still the focal center of this blow molder’s 大象传媒. Those customers will benefit from the company’s push toward automation, sustainability, and new products in injection molding and stretch-blown PET.
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Graham Packaging Marks Its Progress Toward Recycling Goals
Last year, Graham hit 7% average PCR use, but in four years it aims to achieve 20% PCR in its products overall. Colored PCR and advanced recycling will contribute to that goal.
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What Does Ukraine War Have to Do with Plastics?
Europe is feeling the heat from the abrupt halt to steel exports from Russia and Ukraine. Will the ripples reach to our shores, and when?
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Igus Invests in Production, Online Service & Recycling
War in Ukraine accelerated igus’ expansion of production capacity. Also new and growing are low-cost online robot engineering and integration, and recycling of energy chains.
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What If the 1970s Came Back?
Who wants to go back to plastics shortages and soaring prices? What are we doing to resurrect the conditions that produced those painful results?
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What Happened the Last Time(s) Oil Markets Went Crazy
With oil prices bouncing around record highs and inflation in the double digits, things may look bad now, but the plastics industry has been there before—and came out ahead.
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Uniloy Enters PET Stretch-Blow Market with Assets from Amsler Equipment
Uniloy is now servicing existing Amsler PET machines and equipment and will build new ‘Uniloy SBM’ machines in the future.
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Schoeneck Containers Is Now Radius Packaging
Name change reflects a broader focus on complete rigid packaging solutions, and keeping customers as the central focus.
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Plastiblow Beefs Up Service for North American Blow Molders
New organization at Plastiblow distributor Globeius provides better technical assistance and spare-parts availability in North America.
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Machine Monitoring System Now Offers ‘Escalating Alerts’ of Downtime & Alarms
Guidewheel’s FactoryOps machine monitoring platform has a new feature to ensure faster response to downtime or other alerts.
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The Man Who Loved Trade Shows
I must have attended nearly 100 trade shows—why can’t I get enough of them? Why am I itching to get to PTXPO 2022?
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Coca-Cola Pledges to Use More Refillable Bottles
Coca-Cola says 25% of all its beverages globally will be delivered in returnable/refillable containers by 2030, up from 16% in 2020.
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