Industry News
Crown Holdings, Inc., is expanding
the services offered by its aerosol
printing facility in Hoorn, Netherlands
and is reinforcing its strategic
position in the food, beverage,
household and personal care markets
with a new logistics hub in Puurs, Belgium.
These investments will support
increasing demand in the Benelux region
and Germany, as well as enhance
the company’s distribution capabilities, according to Crown.
The new Puurs facility is located in the center of the Benelux
region, being a platform for Crown’s customers in the area operating
in the aerosols, food and beverage businesses. Developed
in partnership with Gilbert de Clercq Transport Co., the facility
serves as a logistics centre to support customers’ needs in the region,
enabling them to benefit from improved delivery timelines,
as well as allowing access to technical and sales administration
services.
To further respond to market growth in the aerosols sector, the
company is also optimizing its manufacturing footprint by consolidating
its aerosol can production capabilities in the Hoorn,
Netherlands print facility. The plant will supply 52, 57 and 65
diameter cans and will see additional capacity added in early
2018. The company anticipates having print and manufacturing
capabilities in one location will offer several benefits to customers,
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including shorter lead time. Crown expects the new aerosol
facility to be operational by first quarter of 2018. The Puurs hub
is already in service.
As part of their commitment to promoting the circular economy
through plastic recycling solutions, L’Oréal and bioplasturgy
company Carbios have signed an agreement to jointly found
a five-year consortium to bring the bio-recycling technology
designed and developed by Carbios to market on an industrial
scale. The partnership is open to industries from other sectors
looking to develop new plastic bio-recycling solutions.
According to the company, Carbios has developed an enzymatic
bio-recycling process for plastics that breaks polymers down
to the basic components (monomers) originally used to create
them. Once separated and purified, the monomers can be used
again to create virgin plastic without losing any value through the
recycling process. This biological process is a first step to developing
a new way of managing the plastic life cycle-in line with the
circular economy, said L’Oréal.
More than 40 government officials and 60 representatives from
pharmaceutical and medical device companies attended the
recent grand opening celebration for Tekni-Plex, Inc.’s new stateof
the-art, 140,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Suzhou,
China, near Shanghai. Earlier this year, Tekni-Plex announced
a $15 million investment in the facility to support the growing
needs of the Asia-Pacific pharmaceutical and medical device
markets that are supported with products developed
by Tekni-Plex’s Colorite, Natvar and Action
Technology business units.
Recognizing the steady growth of Asian domestic
markets, Quadpack Industries is expanding its
presence in the region. The international packaging
group, headquartered in Europe, has created a
dedicated sales operation to service brands and
contract fillers in the Asia Pacific region, led by
Regional Director Jason Smith. Quadpack already
has offices in Australia and New Zealand and, since
its merger with Collcap, a presence across Asia,
with a supply chain and QA team spread across
China, Hong Kong, Korea and Taiwan. According
to Quadpack, approximately a third of the world’s
beauty packaging spending comes from Asia, which
accounts for half of the world’s skin care market.
TerraCycle has been named a winner of a United
Nations Momentum for Change Lighthouse
Activity award. The recognition is for the initiative
announced earlier this year with TerraCycle,
Procter & Gamble and sustainable resource
management provider SUEZ to create the world’s
first fully recyclable shampoo bottle made with
beach plastic. TerraCycle received the award in
Bonn, Germany in November during the United
Nations Climate Change Conference (COP23). The
shampoo bottle, made for the Head & Shoulders
brand, contains 25% beach plastic that is collected
from beaches, oceans, rivers and other waterways.