Matthew Naitove Contributing Editor

Packaging 24 Oct 2022

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.

k show 24 Oct 2022

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.

sustainability 24 Oct 2022

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.

sustainability 24 Oct 2022

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.

Postconsumer 21 Oct 2022

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.

Testing 21 Oct 2022

Dual-Mode Portable Thickness Gauge for Packaging

Hand-held “pen” measures sheets, containers, panels, large parts with magnetic or capacitance mode; controlled by Bluetooth phone app.

k show 19 Oct 2022

Uniloy Introduces Small Electric Shuttle at K 2022

Uniloy’s new UCS-E all-electric shuttle blow molder has 10-ton clamp, 400-mm carriage stroke.

pet 19 Oct 2022

Mold Opaque White PET Bottles – Without Pigment

Trexel and Husky are cooperating on molding recyclable opaque white preforms for PET bottles, which provide a light barrier using foam instead of pigment.

Recycling 12 Oct 2022

Thoughts About Venice – and Recycling

The gleaming city on the Adriatic is held up by uncountable numbers of wooden pilings. Is that a viable model for the future of plastics recycling?

Film Extrusion 12 Oct 2022

Recyclable All-PP Barrier Pouch Goes Retortable

Toppan adds retortable packaging to its all-PP GL Barrier lineup, and also introduces all-PE barrier packaging for boiling sterilization.

Automation 10 Oct 2022

All-Electric Machines & Blow Molding Automation Featured at K 2022

Magic MP spa will present new EBM auto adjustment, electric accumulator-head technology, a larger ISBM machine, a quick-mold-change system, and robotic product handling/palletizing at this month’s show in Düsseldorf.