NEWS PLANT-BASED AND FOOD-GRADE


Tetra Pak to invest in tethered caps


Tetra Pak has announced a three-year, €100m investment programme to switch manufacturing at its factory in Châteaubriant, Switzerland, to the production of tethered caps by 2024. This year, the global carton group


will expand the Swiss site by 30%, adding ten lines dedicated to moulding tethered caps. In 2022-23, about 50% of the existing lines will be replaced in the same way. All of this comes on top of a commitment to invest €100m per year over the next five to ten years to develop more sustainable packaging systems and ensure compliance with the EU’s Single Use Plastics Directive. Among its provisions, the Directive requires that caps stay attached to the


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The carton packaging group produces about 5bn caps per year


package once opened, thus helping to minimise waste and pollution. In all, Tetra Pak has capacity to


produce about 5bn caps per year. The Châteaubriant factory covers 30,000 m² and featuring 19 lines dedicated to the manufacture of six types of cap. � www.tetrapak.com


Realme picks SABIC copolymer material


Chinese smartphone manufacturer Realme has selected Sabic’s new LNP Elcres EXL7414 polycarbonate-based copolymer resin for the battery enclosure of its C25 phone. This was done to achieve UL 94 V0 FR compliance at 0.6mm, as required by the new International Electrotechni- cal Commission (IEC) 62368-1 safety standard. The C25 was launched in March. It is both thin (about 9.6 mm) and light (about 209 g), and it features a rapid- charging, high-power 6000mAH lithium-ion battery, which has to be contained in a suitably thin and light enclosure. � www.sabic.com


New Arburg prototyping centre


Machinery giant Arburg has revealed that it opened its new Arburg Proto- typing Centre (APC) in Shanghai in March. This means that the firm now has a


dedicated APC available in Europe, the Americas and Asia. The Shanghai APC operates two


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200-3X and 300-3X Freeformers to produce benchmark parts using additive methods. They are mainly used to process and assess materials from Chinese suppliers, particularly in the medical technology and packag- ing industries. � www.arburg.com


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