Abstract: A sealing film for sealing off a container opening, and a container comprising a sealing film. The sealing film comprises a carrier film and a cover film. Between the carrier film and the cover film is arranged a binding layer for connecting the carrier film to the cover film and having a melting point of less than 120° C.

Abstract: The invention relates to a fiber-based container comprising a first layer made of compressed pulp, which forms a dimensionally stable sleeve and encloses an interior. The sleeve is at least partially coated with a second layer made of a partially crystalline polyester, and the partially crystalline polyester is applied in the form of a fluid or powder.

Abstract: The invention relates to a refillable plastic container (100) which comprises a neck (10) having a neck opening (11) and a container body enclosing a filling volume which are separated from one another by a substantially radially protruding support ring (30). The neck of the plastic container has an axial length (L) equal to or less than 17.25 mm, measured from a mouth rim (12) of the neck opening to an underside of the support ring.

Abstract: A method for filling a plastics container, wherein an excess pressure is built up in the filled and closed container. The method includes the following method steps: filling the plastics container with a liquid, and closing the filled plastics container. In a deformation step, the container, prior to being closed, is deformed by a mechanical force such that the cross-sectional shape of the container is changed and its volume is thereby increased. In a pressure relief step, the mechanical force is removed once the container has been closed, as a result of which the volume contraction causes an excess pressure to build up in the container, and the filling height of the liquid increases.

Abstract: A method for filling a plastics container, wherein an excess pressure is built up in the filled and closed container. The method includes the following method steps: filling the plastics container with a liquid, and closing the filled plastics container. In a deformation step, the container, prior to being closed, is deformed by a mechanical force such that the cross-sectional shape of the container is changed and its volume is thereby increased. In a pressure relief step, the mechanical force is removed once the container has been closed, as a result of which the volume contraction causes an excess pressure to build up in the container, and the filling height of the liquid increases.

Abstract: A reusable wide-necked container made of plastic, in particular for non-liquid, flowable filling material. The reusable wide-necked container comprises a container base, a container body and a neck. The neck has a neck section ending in an outlet opening and adjoining a container shoulder. The neck section has an inner wall and an outer wall. Securing means for securing a cover are arranged on the outer wall. The container body has an average wall thickness that is greater than 0.5 mm, in particular greater than 0.7 mm, and smaller than 1.2 mm. The neck section has a wall thickness that is greater than 1.5 mm. The neck section has a peripheral groove at the transition to the container shoulder. Also described is a packaging unit comprising a reusable wide-necked container.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method by which a starting material for injection molding having a viscosity of between 0.50 and 0.7 dL/g is produced from a recycled post-consumer PET having a viscosity of between 0.72 and 0.86 dL/g according to ASTM D4603 and a copolymer fraction of at most approximately 3%, adding a low-viscosity PET material. In the method, the comminuted and dried PET material is melted and decontaminated to such a degree that it is suitable for applications in the food sector and the consumer goods sector.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method by which a starting material for injection molding having a viscosity of between 0.50 and 0.7 dL/g is produced from a recycled post-consumer PET having a viscosity of between 0.72 and 0.86 dL/g according to ASTM D4603 and a copolymer fraction of at most approximately 3%, adding a low-viscosity PET material. In the method, the comminuted and dried PET material is melted and decontaminated to such a degree that it is suitable for applications in the food sector and the consumer goods sector.

Abstract: The invention relates to a reusable plastic bottle for receiving a product, which bottle consists of a plastic material that absorbs odorous molecules from the product or from residues of the product. Coffee additives and/or coffee flavors are added to the plastic material, thereby reducing the penetration of odorous molecules into the plastic and reducing, masking or neutralizing off-odors of the odorous molecules.

Abstract: The invention relates to a fiber-based container comprising a first layer made of compressed pulp, which forms a dimensionally stable sleeve and encloses an interior. The sleeve is at least partially coated with a second layer made of a partially crystalline polyester, and the partially crystalline polyester is applied in the form of a fluid or powder.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method in which a starting material for injection-molding, having a viscosity of between 0.50 and 0.7 dL/g, is produced with the aid of a chain breaker from a recycled post-consumer PET having a viscosity of between 0.72 and 0.86 dL/g according to ASTM D4603 and a copolymer fraction of at most approximately 3%. In the method, the comminuted and dried PET material is melted and decontaminated to such a degree that it is suitable for applications in the food sector and the consumer goods sector. A chain breaker is added to the rPET material in the melt of the recycling extruder and/or preferably the melt of the injection unit in order to lower the viscosity and to enrich the PET with copolymers.

Abstract: A plastic container manufactured from a preform with a mass share of at least 80% polyester and possibly an additive from the group consisting of dyes, fillers, catalysers, additives and lubricative additives. The plastic container comprises a container neck and a container shoulder which connects with the container neck and merges into a container body closed by a container base. The container shoulder, the container base and the container body are exclusively reshaped by a 2-stage stretch blow moulding method. The polyester is a copolyester and comprises groups which originate from the monomers cyclohexanedimethanol (CHDM) and/or monoethylene glycol (MEG), terephthalic acid (TPA) or its derivatives and isophthalic acid (IPA) or its derivatives. At least a part-region of the container body and/or of the container shoulder comprises a sharp edge with a radius of less than 0.5 mm. A method of manufacturing the plastic container is also described.

Abstract: The invention relates to a recycling method for producing a polyolefin recyclate, involving the process of removing contaminants from a contaminated polyolefin material, in which the contaminated polyolefin material is soaked in a solvent in a soaking step in order to dissolve contaminants present in the contaminated polyolefin material in the solvent and to remove the solvent and the contaminants dissolved in the solvent from the polyolefin material. According to the invention, prior to the soaking step, a washing step carried out using water, cleaning agents and/or lye. The contaminated polyolefin material is changed by the soaking/solvent recycling method such that (i) more than 90% of the low-molecular chains of below 2000 daltons are removed or washed out, and the average molecular chain length of the polyolefin recyclate is therefore increased, and (ii) the melt volume-flow rate (MVR) of the polyolefin recyclate is reduced to a specified MVR.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an aerosol container made of plastic, the container having a neck, the opening of which is closeable in a pressure-tight manner by a valve unit that can be actuated by a pushbutton, the container being Tillable with a liquid or gaseous propellant and a liquid to be sprayed. The aerosol container can be an injection cast preform with an elongated tubular preform body. The preform body is closed by a dome-shaped convex preform base, beyond which an integrally formed stand region projects in an axial direction. The preform body adjoins the opening of the neck at the opposite axial longitudinal ends of the preform body.

Abstract: A method for producing a blow molded plastic bottle starting from a preform comprises providing a preform with a specific wall thickness distribution and a blow mold are provided, the cavity of the mold having at least one channel at the locations of the plastic bottle that are to be strengthened. Subsequently, the preform is heated in such a way that the portion of the preform that correlates with the channel of the cavity is thinned to a lesser extent during the stretching and/or blow, and an accumulation of plastics material is brought about in the channel during the main blow molding operation. A plastic container produced by this process has strengthening elements formed as at least one outwardly protruding bead of material and have a wall thickness that is at least 30%, greater than the wall thickness of a portion of the wall adjacent to the bead of material.

Abstract: Presented and described is a method for reclaiming thermoplastic materials intended for recycling, such as, for example, polyethylene terephthalate (PET), in the form of flakes. According to the invention, in a first step, the flakes are exposed to an oxidative fluid and heat until contaminated flakes are modified such that, in a second step, they are separated from the remaining flakes as a result of this modification.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method in which a polyester melt containing one or more polyesters is produced, the polyester melt being foamed by a blowing agent and a foamed granulate is produced from the foamed polyester melt. The intrinsic viscosity (IV) of the polyester melt is reduced by the blowing agent about at least 0.05 dl/g, measured according to ASTM D4603, and the IV of the foamed granulate is then increased by means of a solid phase polycondensation (SSP).

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing an EBM bottle with 0.90 to 1.5 dL/g from a bottle-grade PET post-consumer recycling flake, i.e., a recycled, post-consumer PET with a viscosity of 0.65 to 0.84 dL/g, using extrusion processes, solid state polycondensation processes, and a blowing process.

Abstract: Process for deodorization of recycled polyolefin pellets (23) in three steps: In a first step, the moist pellets (23) are contacted with a circulating inert gas at a temperature between 110° C. and 160° C. in a steam stripper (11), and the steam is precipitated in a condensate trap (29). In a second step, the pellets (23) are sent to a vacuum silo (13) under negative pressure and contacted with a gas flowing in countercurrent. In a third step, after the vacuum silo (13) the pellets (23) are sent to a first heat exchanger (15) and contacted with the gas flowing in countercurrent from the second step.

Abstract: The invention relates to a preform for producing a plastic container in a blow moulding method, comprising an elongated, preform body, which is formed so as to be closed at the one longitudinal end thereof and, at the other longitudinal end thereof, has a neck section having a pouring opening. The preform is produced from recycled PET and aliphatic furanoate, wherein the recycled PET has a maximum of 2.5 wt % of isophthalic acid and diethylene glycol, wherein the proportion of isophthalic acid is no higher than 2.0 wt %, and the proportion of diethylene glycol is no higher than 2.0 wt %, wherein all the percentages by weight are based on the total weight of the preform. Turbidity of the preform, measured in accordance with ASTM D I 003-00, is less than 5%, as a result of the admixture of the aliphatic furanoate.