Plastics News

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

It's the first major PE manufacturing complex in the Northeastern U.S. 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. North America isn't expected to see much new PET production capacity until 2025.

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Plastics News

JANUARY 27, 2023

Strong seasonal demand for bottled water and other beverages played a role in earlier PET price increases, as well as a lack of new capacity and freight and logistics challenges. It is the first major PE manufacturing complex in the Northeastern U.S. billion pound capacity PE unit in Monaca, Pa., near Pittsburgh.

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Dinesh Mishra

JULY 19, 2022

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.

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