Berry Global is supplying The Coca-Cola Company with a lightweight tethered closure for PET bottles of carbonated soft drinks, with rollout across Coca-Cola's European plants. Over 400 million closures have been applied so far in Germany, Spain and the UK.
Braskem and Nexus Circular signed a 10-year definitive commercial agreement for Nexus to supply circular feedstocks from a new advanced recycling facility. The feedstock will support Braskem's circular PP resin production and its recycled-content targets.
The Samsung Engineering and CTCI joint venture SCJV was awarded Package 1 of QatarEnergy's Ras Laffan Petrochemicals Project, covering a 2.08 million tonne ethylene unit and utilities. The total project cost is stated as $6 billion.
Amcor agreed a five-year deal to buy certified-circular polyethylene from ExxonMobil's advanced recycling plant, rising to 100,000 metric tons annually by the end of the period, mainly for healthcare and food packaging.
Delhi Milk Scheme awarded Rainbow Packaging Pvt Ltd a tender to manufacture, print and supply 262 MT of three-layer co-extruded pigmented polythene film, with a contract value of ₹4.88 crore and a 365-day period of work.
TotalEnergies signed an agreement to purchase petrochemical feedstock from recycled mixed polyolefins produced by Indaver's Plastics2Chemicals plant, under construction and due to open in 2024. The feedstock will be processed into circular polymers for contact-sensitive packaging.
POLYTEX was awarded a contract to provide design, engineering and know-how on critical components for Koksan's new chemical PET recycling plant in Turkey.
Resinex will distribute Aquapak's Hydropol barrier polymer on an exclusive basis in most of Europe, excluding Italy, Spain and Portugal, and has committed to buy at least 8,000 metric tonnes over three years.
Avantium signed an offtake agreement under which AmBev, part of AB InBev, will buy PEF from Avantium's FDCA Flagship Plant in Delfzijl, Netherlands, to make soft drink bottles. The agreement was announced on 2022-08-17.
Pact Group signed an agreement to supply Woolworths with up to 18,000 tonnes of recycled plastic packaging items for its home brand products by 2024.
Good natured Products signed a three-year commercial contract with a large U.S. food producer to supply packaging made from Bio-PET-based material and recycled content, produced at its Ontario and Illinois facilities.
good natured Products signed a three-year contract to supply a large U.S. food producer with Bio-PET-based packaging designs made at its Ontario and Illinois facilities, expected to generate about USD 13 million in first-year revenue.
Avantium has agreed to supply polyethylene furanoate (PEF), a biobased polymer, to Carlsberg for packaging including beer bottles. Avantium also agreed to supply PEF to five yarn companies.
Symphony Environmental Technologies signed an exclusive three-year supply agreement with Grupo Bimbo for its d2p antimicrobial masterbatch used in bread packaging film in the US, Canada and Mexico. No financial terms were disclosed.
Thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions subsidiary Uhde Inventa-Fischer signed a contract to build a world-scale polymer plant for Merinos Hali in Turkey, producing 330,000 tons per year of resin for PET bottles and textile chips. The article reports no contract value.
Carlsberg Group has signed a conditional offtake agreement with Avantium to secure a fixed volume of PEF polymer from Avantium's FDCA Flagship Plant, which is planned to start up in 2024. Carlsberg will use the resin in its Fibre Bottle packaging.
Auer Packaging GmbH of Amerang received its largest single order in company history, worth €7.9 million, from a Danish recycling service provider for special plastic big boxes used to recycle PET bottles and aluminium cans.
Cabka N.V. entered a long-term supply agreement with US retailer Target for reusable large foldable plastic containers for its nearly 2,000 US stores. The initial order represents about EUR 13 million in 2022 revenue.
Montreal manufacturer Industries Gould won a contract to supply Metro's Selection private-label garbage, recycling and compost bags, about 4.5 million kg a year, after a tender.
Uhde Inventa-Fischer, a thyssenkrupp Uhde subsidiary, signed a contract to build three polymer plants for SASA Polyester in Adana, Turkey, including PET, Co-PET and MTR resin production lines. The announcement is dated 22 February 2022.
Ellerhold Group chose the Litholiner system from Quantum-Stock for its new plant under construction in Radebeul, Germany, which replaces the existing laminator plant and is due for completion at the end of the year.
Starlinger will supply its recoSTAR PET 215 iV+ food-grade PET recycling system to Başatlı Boru Profil in Kocaeli Province, Turkey, with operation planned from April 2022. The system produces up to 2,400 kg of food-safe rPET per hour.
Jiangxi Tobacco Company's Ganzhou branch named Nanxiong Jinye Packaging Materials Co. as the winning bidder for its 2022-2023 cigarette packaging heat-shrink film procurement, with a winning amount of 2,180,400 yuan.
TBM Co., Ltd. signed a sales agreement supplying its LIMEX Pellet injection-molding grade to PT. Kemas Indah Maju, Indonesia's largest cosmetic container molding manufacturer. The pellet is used as a substitute for ABS and PP in cosmetic containers. The announcement is dated December 8, 2021.
Veolia will supply high-quality recycled plastic from processed consumer plastic waste for L'Oreal's packaging worldwide. The recycled material is produced with Veolia's pelletisation technology and is said to match virgin plastic quality.
Borouge awarded engineering, procurement and construction contracts for Borouge 4, a $6.2 billion expansion of its Ruwais complex, to Al Asab General Transport and Contracting and to Technip Energies with Target Engineering.
Tereos signed a strategic supply agreement with Avantium Renewable Polymers to supply 100% of the wheat-derived F95 high-fructose syrup needed to make FDCA for bio-based PEF packaging. The initial volume is 5,000 tons.
Alphapointe signed a new four-year agreement with Express Scripts Pharmacy to double its production of FDA-approved plastic prescription bottles. The deal increases cumulative full-time positions for blind employees to 24.
Anvil Cases, Inc. of Covina, California was awarded a $1,294,260 contract under the US federal Multiple Award Schedule, dated 9 September 2021.
Waddington Europe, a Novolex division, agreed with Irish recycler Shabra to purchase food-grade recycled PET for making new packaging at its Arklow production site, announced August 31, 2021.
Maire Tecnimont subsidiary Tecnimont won a lump-sum turnkey contract from Repsol worth about €430 million to build polypropylene and linear polyethylene units at Repsol's Sines complex in Portugal, due for completion by 2025.
Cove signed an exclusive five-year agreement to receive 350 million pounds of RWDC Industries' PHA biopolymer for its biodegradable water bottles. The deal supports Cove's planned first product launch later in 2021.
Avantium Renewable Polymers signed two additional conditional offtake agreements for PEF resin with Toyobo and Terphane, bringing the total to four contracts, which together cover 30% of the planned flagship FDCA plant's capacity. Refresco is also among the offtake partners.
Walmart has chosen IFCO as its exclusive reusable plastic container packaging provider for select fresh fruits and vegetables in the US under a seven-year agreement. IFCO expects to create manufacturing jobs in the US.
IFCO and Walmart completed a seven-year agreement making IFCO Walmart's exclusive RPC packaging provider for select fresh fruits and vegetables in the U.S. IFCO expects to create U.S.-based manufacturing jobs for new RPC production.
Abbey Logistics has been awarded a recycled polymer logistics and materials handling contract by Viridor, the UK's largest recycling company. Abbey will receive, store and reformat recycled plastic flakes from Viridor's Skelmersdale facility at its bag-to-bulk site on the Wirral.
Master Kong Holdings (00322) entered a purchase agreement on 31 December 2020 with Success Forever Investments and its affiliates for plastic products, running for three financial years through 31 December 2023.
Datwyler signed a new multi-year contract with Nespresso running until 2030 for capsule and seal production at its automated plant in Schattdorf, Switzerland, with continuous volume and revenue growth expected. Terms are confidential.
Delhi Milk Scheme, a government milk body, awarded Rainbow Packaging Pvt Ltd a tender to manufacture and supply 372 MT of three-layer co-extruded pigmented polythene film, with contract value of INR 5.71 crore and a 365-day work period.
Turkish film producer Polibak has purchased two BOBST EXPERT K5 2450mm metallizers with AlOx GEN II and AluBond processes to raise metallizing capacity. The first machine is already in production and the second will be installed next year.
Ngoc Nghia Industry commissioned Frigel Group to completely retrofit the cooling system of its Interpet PET preform plant in Tay Ninh province, replacing eight chillers and four cooling towers.
Aktieselskapet Vinmonopolet awarded a framework contract for plastic bags for its stores to Stenqvist AS, with an award value of NOK 45,000,000 dated 3 November 2020.
Lummus Novolen Technology was awarded a contract by Lukoil Burgas for a 280 kta polypropylene unit at its Bulgarian petrochemical facility, covering technology license, basic design engineering, training and catalyst supply. The announcement was made on 2020-10-08.
Moorebank-based packaging company Tacca signed a six-month supply agreement with Detmold Medical to produce meltblown polypropylene filter layer for medical masks, re-tooling its Moorebank premises for the work. The article is dated 5 August 2020 and no value was given.
TriMas's Rieke business received a contract from INEOS Hygienics to produce dispenser pumps for new hand sanitizers, with production planned at a Taplast location. The announcement is dated 2020-07-13 and gives no value.
Greiner Packaging produces Pro Nature toilet-cleaner bottles for Henkel using 50 per cent recycled material. The article gives no further details on volumes or value.
Korporacja KGL has signed a framework agreement under which it will be the main supplier of plastic meat trays to Danish Crown, mainly for its Polish plants. Potential revenue from the agreement, running to 1 January 2023, could reach 40 million PLN.
Berry Global agreed to supply non-woven fabric to Medicom in support of the UK government's mask manufacturing mandate.
Belarus's Grodno Tobacco Factory Neman purchased 1,200 tonnes of biaxially oriented polypropylene film for cigarette packs and blocks from Ukraine's Tatrafan Plastkhim-T for a total of 2.979 million euros, after winning a supplier tender.
Berry Global is collaborating with Mondelez International to supply packaging containing recycled plastic for Philadelphia cream cheese.