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Packaging

All-rPET Bottles with Glued-in Handles Save Material

At K 2022, KHS is showing a 2.3 L PET bottle with glued-in handle that offers 10% material savings and other advantages over clip-in handles. Bottle and handle are both 100% rPET.

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Old Fishing Nets to Child’s Watering Can: Blow Molding rPE at K Show

High-quality marine recyclate is suited to continuous-extrusion blow molding without an accumulator head.

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Blow Molding

Energy-Saving Accumulator-Head Blow Molder

ST BlowMoulding’s new AX 880 has all-electric clamping, electro-hydraulic parison push-out, and twin adiabatic extruders.

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Testing

Dual-Mode Portable Thickness Gauge for Packaging

Hand-held “pen” measures sheets, containers, panels, large parts with magnetic or capacitance mode; controlled by Bluetooth phone app.

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Blow Molding

Uniloy Introduces Small Electric Shuttle at K 2022

Uniloy’s new UCS-E all-electric shuttle blow molder has 10-ton clamp, 400-mm carriage stroke.

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PET

Mold Opaque White PET Bottles – Without Pigment

Trexel and Husky are cooperating on molding recyclable opaque white preforms for PET bottles, which provide a light barrier using foam instead of pigment.

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Tooling

K 2022: High-Performance Bucket Mold Targets Faster Cycles

Heavy-wall container molds, coinjection for post-consumer recyclate and more on tap from Top Grade Molds in Düsseldorf.

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Recycling

Sorting Mixed Plastics by Color and Type

Steinert will demonstrate plastic sorting technology at K 2022.

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Recycling

Equipment Supplier Sees Demand for Circular Plastics Gathering Momentum

VDMA interviewed Martina Schmidt, head of recycling business unit at Vecoplan AG

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K 2022: New and Established Hot Runner, Mold and Injection Technology

Mold-Masters will showcase numerous hot runner systems, controllers and auxiliary injection units at K 2022.

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