Tuesday, 25-Aug-09

Seattle voters reject 20-cent bag tax
SEATTLE (August 25, 2009) -- The attempt to place a 20-cent fee on all plastic and paper carryout bags in Seattle appears almost certain to be headed for defeat. With more than 60 percent of the expected votes counted, the measure was failing 57 percent to 43 percent.

Nestle launching water in recycled PET
GREENWICH, CONN. (August 25, 2009) -- Nestle Waters North America Inc. is launching a new range of mineral water in the U.S. packaged in bottles consisting of 25 percent recycled PET, and is backing the move with a big recycling initiative.

Tuesday, 18-Aug-09

California's EnVino finding success with PET wine bottles
BURLINGAME, CALIF. (August 18, 2009) -- A joint venture between a plastic bottle maker and thermoforming packaging manufacturer is making an aggressive push to penetrate the wine industry with plastics. With clear bottles for whites and green-hued bottles for reds, the bottles come in three sizes: 187 milliliter, the industry standard 750 milliliter, and 1 liter.

Tuesday, 11-Aug-09

Mill Valley becomes 24th Calif. town to ban PS packaging
MILL VALLEY, CALIF. (August 11, 2009) -- Another California city has banned the use of polystyrene take-out packaging. Mill Valley, a town of nearly 15,000 four miles north of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, approved a ban on Aug. 3 that will go into effect Nov. 2.

US sets duties on plastic bags from Thailand
WASHINGTON (August 11, 2009) -- In a preliminary ruling, the U.S. Commerce Department has levied the highest possible anti-dumping duty of 122.88 percent on plastic bags exported to the U.S. by Master Packaging Co. Ltd. of Bangkok, Thailand. The agency said the company did not respond to the agency’s request for information.

Tuesday, 04-Aug-09

U.S. sets duties on plastic bags from China
WASHINGTON (August 4, 2009) — Plastic bags from Zhongshan, Guangdong-based Rally Plastics Co. Ltd. that were exported to the U.S. between August 2007 and July 2008 may be levied anti-dumping duties of 17.95 percent, according to a preliminary decision by the U.S. Department of Commerce.

China's beverage industry increases packaging demand
SHANGHAI (August 4, 2009) -- Despite upheaval in global markets and a sharp drop in exports, China's domestic beverage industry is bubbling. Consumers are drinking more soft drinks and downing iced green teas, driving up demand for plastic beverage containers.

Tuesday, 28-Jul-09

Bioplastics industry joins oxo-degradable debate
BERLIN (July 28, 2009) -- European Bioplastics, the Berlin-based trade association representing producers of bio-based or biodegradable plastics, hit out at manufacturers of plastics containing degradable additives, accusing them of making misleading claims and failing to live up to international and acknowledged standards.

Polyplex sees film growth in China, SE Asia

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SHANGHAI (July 28, 2009) -- Since Noida, India-based Polyplex Group started in 1984, the company has had its eye on global expansion. Over the years it has expanded with film manufacturing facilities in Thailand and Turkey. Now, with a new office in Shenzhen and a booth at the 2009 Propack China trade show in Shanghai, the PET film company is tapping into a new market.

Value-added water may boost PET bottle market
DUIVEN, NETHERLANDS (July 28, 2009) -- Innovative value-added and flavored water products may help boost the flagging water market, opening up new opportunities for PET resin and bottle suppliers, suggests a report by Duiven-based Innova Market Insights BV.

Sipa to launch its first integrated bottling line
VITTORIO VENETO, ITALY (July 28, 2009) -- Sipa will launch the Sincro Triblco bottler, which integrates bottle production, labelling, filling and sealing, at the Drinktec trade show later this year in Germany. Sipa claims that the new bottler offers advantages over other machines on the market, as it can be set to handle different bottle sizes without the need to change any mechanical element.

US water brand adopts “biodegradable” PET
DANA POINT, CALIF. (July 28, 2009) -- Californian mineral water bottler Aquamantra has adopted Eco-Pure modified PET resin for its bottles, which is claimed to provide biodegradability without compromising conventional mechanical recycling activities.

Tuesday, 21-Jul-09

Snappy innovation for plastics packaging
OYONNAX, FRANCE (July 21, 2009) -- The breakage-resistant property of plastics is an advantage in most applications but not in production of ampoules, which are opened by snapping away the neck. Now, the French plastic processor SĂ©riplast has developed a technology that uses irradiation to embrittle the neck of a polypropylene (PP) ampoule, allowing it to be "snapped" open without the risk of sharp glass splinters.

Tuesday, 14-Jul-09

US renewing antidumping duties on Asian plastic bags
WASHINGTON (July 14, 2009) -- The U.S. Department of Commerce is conducting an annual administrative review of a 2004 antidumping order on imports of plastic grocery and shopping bags from Malaysia, China and Thailand. The agency will announce its preliminary ruling on whether to continue existing antidumping duties bags imported from China on July 22.

Thailand promoting biodegradable bag project
BANGKOK (July 14, 2009) -- BASF SE is leading a pilot project to promote the use of biodegradable bags in Thailand. The pilot project, which will run from July to December in the Samut Songkhram Province, aims to use biodegradable bags to collect household organic waste and produce high-quality compost that will serve as organic fertilizer for the purpose of soil improvement.

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