KHS & Eckes-Granini launch bottles made of 100% rPET
Eckes-Granini is making its packaging portfolio even more environmentally friendly with the help of the KHS Group. Since the middle of May, its one-liter hohes C juice bottle has consisted entirely of recycled plastic...
GEA’s innovative ViwateQ surface treatment at Danish factory
Düsseldorf, 8 June 2021, GEA now has a license to use ViwateQ wet finishing to polish stainless steel surfaces at its vibratory equipment manufacturing plant in Svendborg, Denmark. The ability to perform this finishing...
Theegarten-Pactec – hot on paper
Dresden-based Theegarten-Pactec presents a further development of its proven, modular high-performance packaging machine FPC5 for the packaging of chocolate products in June 2021. This machine makes it possible to process paper-based flow packs using...
Egreens sets up INR 150 million agritech early-stage fund
Egreens, an agri-business founded by Mayank Chaurasia, announced an INR 150 million fund for early-stage agritech startups in India. The company will focus on startups that use innovative technologies and disruptive business models across...
Sappi Rockwell’s sustainable, Starlid coated lidding films
Heat seal coating specialist, Sappi Rockwell Solutions has developed its first sustainable, multi-substrate, heat sealing lidding film. Developed and manufactured in house, Starlid GPE-CL is an extrusion coated lidding film specifically formulated and processed...
Tetra Pak’s UHT 2.0 cuts water & heat for less carbon emissions
New Delhi, India, 1 June 2021, Tetra Pak is showcasing its new UHT 2.0 heating portfolio and Tetra Pak E3/Speed Hyper packaging equipment on World Milk Day. It is to highlight this year’s theme...
Cosmo Films on the pandemic, industry expansion, exports & sustainability
Amongst the fourteen new film lines coming to India in the next three years is Cosmo Films’ polyester line from Bruckner. Naresh Khanna, editor of Packaging South Asia asked Cosmo CEO Pankaj Poddar to...
Microwave safe RFID tag added to Stora Enso’s ECO family
Stora Enso's ECO Meal UHF RFID tag for the food and beverage industry has a printed paper antenna and can be applied to, or built into, microwaveable packaged foods without posing a fire or arcing hazard, says...
Indian foodgrain output to rise to 305.43 million tons in 2020-21
India’s agriculture ministry released its third advance estimate on 25 May 2021, for the 2020-21 June to July crop year – predicting a rise in various foodgrains such as rice, wheat, pulses, and coarse...
Universal APF-Max from PET Technologies come to market
Austrian company PET Technologies has recently brought to the market a new generation of flexible PET stretch blow-molding machines called APF-Max. Their output varies between 3000 and 14,000 bottles per hour (bph), while the...