Bottles

Sacmi has carried out successful projects with the world's most important brand owners, in line with its sensitivity to the theme of recycled resins and respect for the environment. Among the most interesting projects are the supply of the bottling line (blowing and filling) for the IPS machine for preforms and the CCM (continuous compression moulding) press for caps.

Sorema, the recycling systems division of Previero, inaugurated a new machine for washing and recycling post-consumer PET bottles for Commercial Plastics in Yangon (Myanmar), soon to be followed by a second plant in Vietnam.

With less than two years to go before the European targets imposed by the Single Use Plastic (SUP) Directive, the challenge of the coming months will be to increase the efficiency of the selective and traditional collection system. There are two challenging targets for the Italian system: territories must collect at least 77% of post-consumer PET bottles by 2025 and 90% by 2029. At the same time, those who use these containers to sell their products will be obliged to produce them with at least 25% recycled PET from 2025 and 30% from 2030.

Ferrarelle Società Benefit, one of Italy's largest mineral water producers, has chosen Sidel's Combi Predis aseptic technology to produce its new range of water and tea products, ensuring product integrity and long shelf life.

After carrying out a washing and recycling test on bottles collected by CPC (Commercial Plastics Company), a PET bottle recycler based in Yangon (Myanmar), Sorema, an Italian company that is one of the main international reference points for its recycling plants, has designed a 2,200 kg/h flake production plant to recycle the material supplied by the customer and produce new bottles for drinks. The analysis of the material, carried out at the...

Health, taste and sustainability are the three driving forces behind "made in glass". In 2022, despite the energy crisis and the long wave of Covid, the production of bottles and jars has increased to meet the safety and environmental sustainability requirements demanded by consumers, but also to accompany the success of Italian branded...

On 22nd April, on the occasion of Earth Day, Acqua Lete and the AC Milan Football Club announced the launch of an innovative environmental sustainability project in collaboration with Coripet, a leading consortium in the collection and...

While in Europe media promote circular economy, recycling and reuse of packaging on a daily basis to guarantee long life to the planet, increasingly threatened by global warming, in Africa waste recycling is still today a strongly backward sector. However, there are...

Amut, an Italian manufacturer of extrusion and recycling plants, has recently completed the commissioning of a recycling plant for Pet Star Recycling, part of Pet Star Group, together with Pet Star Holding, a leading producer of preforms for PET bottles, in Romania. The company...

The manufacturer of in-home carbonations systems SodaStream is known for marketing products which transform tap water into flavoured or unflavoured sparkling soda water at the touch of a button.