0:51 min
Management
Portola Packaging exits cosmetics closure/container manufacturing to focus on growing beverage closure business
Portola Packaging, Inc. is shutting down its Portola Tech International cosmetics closure and container manufacturing unit in order to focus on its growing beverage closure and bottle business.
Production at Portola Tech's Cumberland, R. I. and Nanhai, China manufacturing locations ...
0:49 min
Management
PolyOne Corporation to expand via ColorMatrix in Africa
ColorMatrix, a subsidiary of PolyOne Corporation and a leading innovator of liquid color and additives for plastics, has today announced plans to open a new facility in Africa.
The new facility, which will be located in the Montague Gardens industrial precinct in Cape Town, South ...
1:53 min
Management
Thomas Anderegg becomes new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Mould Technologies Group and SCHÖTTLI AG
The Board of Directors of the Mould Technologies Group (MTG) with lead company SCHÖTTLI AG appointed Mr. Thomas Anderegg as Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective 1 October, 2012. He will succeed Martin Schöttli, who has managed SCHÖTTLI AG since he took over from his father in ...
0:21 min
Management
Coca-Cola, Ford Motor Company, H.J. Heinz Company, NIKE, Inc. and Procter & Gamble today announced the formation of the Plant PET Technology Collaborative (PTC)
The Coca-Cola Company, Ford Motor Company, H.J. Heinz Company, NIKE, Inc. and Procter & Gamble today announced the formation of the Plant PET Technology Collaborative (PTC), a strategic working group focused on accelerating the development and use of 100% plant-based PET materials ...
1:17 min
Management
Portola Packaging reduces energy by almost 20%; recycles 5.5 million pounds over two years
Portola Packaging, Inc.'s North American facilities reduced energy usage by almost 20% and recycled more than 5.5 million pounds of material over the past two years.
The company, known as a leading closure manufacturer, is reporting an 8% reduction in energy usage in 2011, in ...
2:52 min
Management
KraussMaffei Group appoints Dr. Hans Ulrich Golz as the new “President” of the Injection Molding Machinery Segment
The KraussMaffei Group has appointed Dr. Hans Ulrich Golz as “President” of a common Group-wide Injection Molding Machinery Segment. Bernhard Merki, CEO of Netstal Maschinen AG, is leaving the company. Dr. Karlheinz Bourdon and Frank Peters, previously responsible for the Injection ...
2:58 min
Management
SCHOELLER INDUSTRIES takes over ProTec, a subsidiary of MANN+HUMMEL
OHL Engineering GmbH PET Recycling Technologies, a subsidiary of SCHOELLER, Pullach near Munich, has taken over the operative business of the MANN+HUMMEL subsidiary ProTec, with headquarters in Bensheim. With this acquisition the traditional family enterprise has consequently ...