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Wodonga packaging company open for business

Manufacturer's Monthly

The manufacturing site – located along Hume’s freight corridor – will produce recycled and recyclable boxes and packaging to meet increased demand from businesses looking for sustainable packaging options. This project is part of the Government’s record investment of more than $41 billion in rural and regional Victoria since 2015.

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Prices rise for polyethylene, PET

Plastics News

By comparison, the export market share of North American PE sales averaged only 24 percent from 2015-18. Strong seasonal demand for bottled water and other beverages played a role in lifting PET prices in 2022, as well as a lack of new capacity and freight and logistics challenges. billion pounds in 2022. It’s OK, but not great.”

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Commodity prices rise; engineering resins drop

Plastics News

By comparison, the export market share of North American PE sales averaged only 24 percent from 2015-18. Strong seasonal demand for bottled water and other beverages played a role in lifting PET prices in 2022, as well as a lack of new capacity and freight and logistics challenges. billion pounds in 2022.

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Coca-Cola in Mannheim: new returnable glass line from KHS optimizes highly complex sorting processes?

Dinesh Mishra

When in July 1950 beverage retailer Wilhelm Müller procured the bottling rights for Coca-Cola in Germany, he established the entrepreneurial basis for the production site that can still be found in Mannheim. Where this isn’t possible, the beverage producer is relying more and more on the railroad. High-tech in Mannheim.