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Anton Steeman

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Anton is a packaging engineer with some 40 years experience in the packaging field with various multinationals, among others Akzo Nobel, Unilever, Heinz, Sara Lee, Shell, Philips, Johnnie Walker and all that years confronted with the eminent question: "How can I get that product most efficiently packaged with regards to technology, economics, design and in later years sustainability and recyclability."

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Brazil’s small-scale business model for recycling post-consumer Tetra Paks

The time between Christmas and New Year’s Eve is typically a period when people look back and forward and decide what they will do differently in the year to come. Well, let me give you something to contemplate, read this article, invite some friends for a nice diner or b-b-q and discuss with them this topic. Organize the community and get it started. In a never ending process many a... More

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Is ‘Anyway' the answer?

One of the consumer’s great frustrations after buying a product with a pump spray or an aerosol, is, that in effect they are designed only to work in an upright position. Existing pump spray containers have a dip tube with only one hole, which have to ‘swim’ in the liquid to guarantee proper spraying and that only is the case when sufficient liquid is left in the... More

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IML and High-Speed Thin-Wall Technology

Where “injection moulding” is concerned, it is the international trade fair for plastics processing Fakuma in Friedrichshafen/Germany where the experts meet. For years now, it’s ranked as one of the leading plastics trade forums, this year held in October. And that was the place where Beck Automation AG introduced its new IML high-speed thin-wall technology. For... More

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Chocolate Fondue in 2 minutes

Finally the holiday season is coming up. Although Christmas time is a period to contemplate, appreciate and relax, after a very stressful and for some depressing year, it is at the same time a period with countless home celebrations and festive get-togethers. It’s always a good idea to include a designated driver as part of the party planning. What’s better then enjoy chocolate... More

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Cubis - ‘cubed' Innovative Beverage Bottles

Notwithstanding the growing importance of cylindrical shaped aluminium cans, stand-up pouches with all types of fitments and rectangular Tetra Pak-like paperboard boxes, the most common packaging for beverages in the present world is the glass or plastic (mostly PET) bottle of various sizes and shapes, but always cylindrical and narrowing at the top to form an orifice from which the beverage... More
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