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The manufacturing gateway to local, national and international markets

Manufacturer's Monthly

The top sectors within the local manufacturing industry are Food and Beverage, Machinery and Equipment and Fabricated Metal Products, collectively adding $545 million to the Australian economy. In 2023, 842 local manufacturing businesses provided over 9000 jobs to the rapidly growing local workforce.

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Prices rise for polyethylene, PET

Plastics News

Strong seasonal demand for bottled water and other beverages played a role in lifting PET prices in 2022, as well as a lack of new capacity and freight and logistics challenges. North America isn't expected to see much new PET production capacity until 2025. “Everyone’s looking for [resin] demand to pick up.

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Commodity prices rise; engineering resins drop

Plastics News

Strong seasonal demand for bottled water and other beverages played a role in lifting PET prices in 2022, as well as a lack of new capacity and freight and logistics challenges. Production is set to begin in 2025 at the plant, which will have annual production capacity of 2.4 billion pounds of PET and 2.9

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Coca-Cola in Mannheim: new returnable glass line from KHS optimizes highly complex sorting processes?

Dinesh Mishra

When in July 1950 beverage retailer Wilhelm Müller procured the bottling rights for Coca-Cola in Germany, he established the entrepreneurial basis for the production site that can still be found in Mannheim. Where this isn’t possible, the beverage producer is relying more and more on the railroad. High-tech in Mannheim.

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Most resins saw prices drop in December

Plastics News

Strong seasonal demand for bottled water and other beverages played a role in earlier PET price increases, as well as a lack of new capacity and freight and logistics challenges. Even with those declines, North American PET prices finished 2022 showing a net increase of 16 cents.