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Posts Tagged ‘Anuga Foodtec’

May 8th, 2009

PET flat out

The PET worldwide market is undergoing a continuous growth.
This is maintained by the experts intervened to the Petnology Europe, which took place in Cologne, Germany, in March within the Anuga FoodTec event, providing the operators a wide angled panorama of the recent developments and innovations occurred in the beverage and PET bottles industries.
Experts estimate that the growth will be constant till 2025, with different growing indexes in the different countries.
Currently 85% of PET is utilized in the beverage industry, the remaining is utilized for medical-sanitary products and for food and no-food products.
The efforts of the companies operating in this field keep on targeting to perfectioning this material: even the smallest weight reduction allows considerable cost savings.
0.5L bottles weighing 9/10 grams can nowadays be found on the marketplace, half of the weight of the bottles produced until few years ago.

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January 21st, 2009

Talking about Green Packaging in Cologne, Germany.

 

Sustainability and eco-compatibility of the packaging through the different steps of the value chain: from the raw-material producer to the final consumer.  

This is the main subject ‘Sustainability’ will argue on,  within the frame of  Anuga Foodtec, the international trade fair for food and drink technology, which will take place from 10th to 13th March 2009 in Cologne, Germany.

The event  sounds to be quite interesting for the visitor, who will so be able to get acquainted on the effects produced by the different packaging solutions, on how the food habits may affect the  CO2,   emissions, on new solutions being studied by the companies operating within this industry.

Always within the frame of  Anuga FoodTec, under the guidance of  Nova Institute
for Ecology and Innovation, a conference of sustainable packaging will also be held on the 12th March. Experts of the political, industrial and research world will argue on the subject of sustainability, focusing on political conditions, market development, influencing factors, new options and ecological valuations.

 

For more info. www.anugafoodtec.com

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