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In this issue: Plastics in Packaging, Issue 234, April 2021
ANALYSIS AND COMMENTARY
International news
CarbonLite files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection; Pact maintains robust balance sheet; BMG buys GN; UK firm calls on ‘harmful solvent washout’ to be left in 2020; Private equity firm buys AMB; Sonoco and Kraft Heinz collaborate on recycling project; Australia’s largest PET recycling plant ahead of schedule; National Plastics Plan goes live in Australia; UFlex to expand global films capacity; One Rock Capital to buy regional water brands for $4.3bn; Amcor breaks new ground with PCR/PET bottle
Russia review
Why bioplastics will find Russia an uphill struggle
Price check
A monthly review of European polymer prices
Editor’s comment
Which materials will come to the fore in the compostables business?
Asiaphile
Down in the dumps
Products
Machinery: Rhopoint Components,
Comexi, Filtec
Packaging: Nurel Biopolymers, MarkemImaje, Toyobo, Constantia Flexibles Group,
Milliken Chemical, Chadwicks of Bury
Events diary
Your guide to the places to be, this month
PlasticScene
It’s all about teamwork
The view from the back
Printz Holman takes an alternative look at the news
FEATURES
Recycling roadmap
Orchestrating a paradigm shift for plastics
Mergers & acquisitions
How will the post-Covid landscape impact future investment opportunities?
Multiple loop recycling
How do you solve a problem like yellowing?
Colourants, additives & masterbatches
Helping to overcome a shortage of quality raw materials in the recycled PET market
Flexible packaging
Could a British acquisition be the best thing since sliced bread for one Canadian
converter?
Coloured plastics
Progress continues to be made in the development of plastics identifiable in the waste stream
Generating power
Should the plastics industry generate its own electricity?
Ultrasonic sealing
How ultrasonics could give bio-based plastics packaging a more widespread, sustainable future
Aseptic filling
Combining dairy and juice filling in Indi