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Mexico holds its first trade show for processors

MEXICO CITY (Nov. 20, 10:30 a.m. ET) -- Mexico’s first Artiplast trade show, designed to showcase plastics processors, took place in the capital’s World Trade Center Nov. 18-20, attracting 120 exhibitors and about 3,000 visitors. The organizer, the Instituto Mexicano del Plástico Industrial SC, or IMPI, plans to turn the show into an annual event where small- and medium-sized companies can show off their wares and services. November 20, 2009

US firms tackle China's cosmetics market

HONG KONG (Nov. 18, 3:20 p.m. ET) -- Inoac Packaging Group Inc. believes its Shanghai molding plant is at the front of a trend in China’s cosmetics industry -- as local consumers spend more, domestic Chinese cosmetics manufacturers are forking out more for better packaging to appeal to them. Chinese cosmetics companies are turning to some Western molders to help upgrade their packaging in order to boost market share and attract premium prices. November 18, 2009

Firm puts investment in fuel tanks

FAIRFIELD, IOWA (Nov. 17, 12 p.m. ET) -- Officials at Fairfield-based industrial custom blow molder Agri-Industrial Plastics Co. are making major capital investments in an effort to position the company as the industry’s go-to non-automotive fuel-tank manufacturer. November 17, 2009

Coke rolling out bottles made from plant materials

ATLANTA (Nov. 16, 12:15 p.m. ET) -- Coca-Cola Co. beverages will soon be arriving in new plastic bottles made partially from plant materials. Drinks bottled in the new PlantBottle packaging are being sent to store shelves in select worldwide markets, the company said Nov. 16. Atlanta-based Coke plans to produce 2 billion of the special PET bottles by the end of 2010. November 16, 2009

Liquid Container offers new hot-fill PET technology

WEST CHICAGO, ILL. (Nov. 16, 12:10 p.m. ET) — Liquid Container LP is launching a line of hot-fill, wide-mouth PET containers that offer sustained performance at 205° F. The West Chicago-based company is promoting the ThermaSet-brand stock and custom jars as being ideal for viscous foods like apple and pasta sauces, jams and jellies and tomato-based products that fill at higher temperatures. November 16, 2009

Greif expands in Europe with Swedish acquisition

DELAWARE, OHIO (Nov. 16, 11:50 a.m. ET) -- U.S. bulk packaging company Greif Inc. is expanding its presence in Europe with the acquisition of Hannells Industrier AB, a privately held manufacturer of plastic drums, pails and bulk containers for customers in the chemical and petrochemical industries. November 16, 2009

Firm puts investment in fuel tanks

FAIRFIELD, IOWA (Nov. 10, 4:50 p.m. ET) -- Officials at industrial custom blow molder Agri-Industrial Plastics Co. are making major capital investments in an effort to position the company as the industry’s go-to non-automotive fuel-tank manufacturer. November 10, 2009

Designer lauds blow molded barriers

EAST LANSING, MICH. (Nov. 9, 11:20 a.m. ET) — Highway barricade maker Yodock Wall Co. Inc. is switching from rotational molding to blow molding to improve efficiency. November 9, 2009

Sipa debuts all-in-one unit

EAST LANSING, MICH. (Nov. 9, 11:15 a.m. ET) — Italy’s Sipa SpA has introduced a PET bottle-molding system that integrates the blow molder, filler and labeling station in one unit, boosting production efficiency by as much as 10 percent. November 9, 2009

Techne N.A. names manufacturers’ rep

FORT WORTH, TEXAS (Nov. 9, 11:10 a.m. ET) — Techne North America, an affiliate of Techne SpA of Bologna, Italy, has named a new manufacturers’ representative for its continuous extrusion blow molding machinery. November 9, 2009

Top Grade selects APTI as global agent

MISSISSAUGA, ONTARIO (Nov. 9, 11:05 a.m ET) — Top Grade Molds Ltd. has appointed Automated Plastics Tooling Intelligence Group as its exclusive and independent global agent. November 9, 2009

Sidel nabs Pentaward for beer bottle

BRUSSELS (Nov. 9, 11 a.m. ET) — Blow molding machinery supplier Sidel Group has been recognized with a Pentaward for the design of a 500-milliliter PET beer bottle with a flamelike shape. November 9, 2009

Artenius shows a design corker

MUNICH, GERMANY (Nov. 9, 10:40 a.m. ET) — Tucked away amid the comprehensive display of containers on the Artenius PET Packaging Europe exhibit at Drinktec 2009 was its new design for a PET wine bottle that can accept synthetic or traditional corks. November 9, 2009

Sausage maker to use PP 'can'

ZWENKAU, GERMANY (Nov. 9, 10:25 a.m. ET) — German packaging group Weidenhammer Packaging Group has found the first application for a container that it calls “a reinvention of the can” — a range of sausages sold by German retailer Müller’s Hausmacher Wurst. November 9, 2009

Mexico Coke bottler saving money with lightweight preforms

MEXICO CITY (Nov. 5, 11:35 a.m. ET) -- Coca-Cola FEMSA SA de CV plans to extend the use of its PET short-height bottle finishes from Mexico to all its markets in Latin America within 12 months. The design cuts the weight of the company’s 16-ounce bottles to 20.5 grams, and has saved the bottler about $10 million in PET resin annually. November 5, 2009

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