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2023 - Links to follow Europe policy about BPA

19 IV 2022 - Vöslauer reduces carbon footprint with returnable PET bottle

2022 Autumn - Meet us at WE fair in Lisbon - NEW DATES!

22 XII 2021 - Bisphenol A: EFSA draft opinion

6 IV 2021 - 11 litre PET refillable bottle

7 I 2021 - Viki Plast becomes a part of the WISECAP group

7 XII 2020 - Independent analysis reveals reusable packaging up to 85% more climate-friendly than single-use

4 X 2020 - Solving Plastic Pollution | Narrated by Sir David Attenborough & Dame Ellen MacArthur

15 VII 2020 - Coca-Cola Beverages South Africa shows the way…

20 V 2020 - A new scientific study, undertaken as part of the CLARITY-BPA project

8 IV 2020 - Carbios report about its enzyme to recycle the PET

2020 autumn - Meet us at WE fair in Lisbon - NEW DATES NEXT 2020 2021 AUTUMN 2022 EASTER AUTUMN!

13 II 2020 - Plastic recycle option: pavement!

10 I 2020 - New production location for PET preform

15 X 2019 - Rethink Plastic

20 IX 2019 - EU court confirms BPA as endocrine disruptor

21 VI 2019 - Heat wave: the App you need

27 III 2019 - EU parliament seals ban on throwaway plastics by 2021

24 I 2019 - Refillable packaging: A major trend

2019 autumn - Meet us at WE fair in Berlin

29 X 2018 - New plastics economy global commitment

12 IX 2018 - Petcore Europe published a PET factsheet

2018 autumn - Meet us at WE fair in Ireland

20 VII 2018 - Huffpost article about BPA research in USA

14 VI 2018 - Opportunity for HOD water business

28 V 2018 - Proposal for EU directive on single-use plastics

8 III 2018 - Meet us during BWCA conference & trade show

12 II 2018 - UE increased the restrictions with respect to Bisphenol A

20 IX 2017 - Give your feedback to European Commission about next BPA regulation!

2017 autumn - Join us at DRINKTEC and WE

19 VI 2017 - ECHA classified bisphenol A as a presumed human reproductive toxicant

19 VI 2017 - HODMETER is in PET Planet (n°6 2017)

13 I 2017 - BPA added to the REACH candidate list

5 VII 2016 - An extra ring for our preform

17 III 2016 - Ideonella sakaiensis 201-F6 eats PET

9 III 2016 - RIVM recommends more stringent EU standards BPA

2 X 2015 - 5 gallon PET bottles in Alger Carrefour

17 IX 2015 - French Constitutional Council modified the law banishing bisphenol A

1 VII 2015 - Hot days: French government information

29 V 2015 - Ineris website about BPA alternatives

11 V 2015 - BPA listed as know to the State of California to cause reproductive toxicity

24 IV 2015 - PET bottle from 11 litre to 5 gallon

11 II 2015 - Side handle update: now 100% PET

21 I 2015 - Bisphenol A: EFSA scientific opinion

16 I 2015 - Doubts about co-polyesters replacing PC

12 I 2015 - EU and its member states clash over BPA and phthalates

1 IX 2014 - Greif & Hodmeter

24 IX 2014 - PET bottle production in Alger

25 VIII 2014 - Bisphenol A and food intolerance

2 IV 2014 - ECHA changes its opinion about BPA

3 III 2014 - Distribution in Curitiba

17 I 2014 - Bisphenol A: EFSA annoucement

21 X 2013 - Coca Cola Deutschland

7 X 2013 - Opinion summarizing today BPA issue

18 IX 2013 - Facts about BPA

31 VII 2013 - FDA reviews its position with BPA

17 III 2013 - Refillable bottles are back in Paris!

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South Africa

Suid-Afrika

Afrika-Borwa

Republika e Shqipëria (Sqipni)

Al-Djazâ'ir

الجمهورية الجزائرية الديمقراطية الشعبية

République algérienne démocratique et populaire

Deutschland

Principa Andorra

Principauté d'Andorre

República de Angola

Anguilla

Antigua and Barbadua

Nederlandse Antillen

لمملكة العربية السعودية

Al Mamlakah al `Arabiyahas Su`udiyah

Argentina

Hayastani Hanrapetout'youn

Aruba

Australia

Österreich

Azərbaycan Respublikası

Bahamas

مملكة البحرين

Mamlakat al-Bahrayn

Gano Projātontrī Bānglādesh 

Barbados

Republic of Palau

Beluu er a Belau

België

Belgique

Belgien

Belize

Benin

Bermuda

Druk Yul

Беларусь

Bolivia

Republika Bosna i Hercegovina

Republic of Botswana

Lefatshe la Botswana

Brazil

Negara Brunei Darussalam

Република България

Burkina Faso

République du Burundi

Republika y'Uburundi

Preăh Réachéanachâkr Kâmpŭchea

Cameroun

Cameroon

Canada

Cabo Verde

Ködrö ti Bê-Afrika

Centre Afrique

Chile

中华人民共和国

Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó

Kypriakí (Κύπρος) Dimokratía

Kibris Cumhuriyeti

Colombia

Udzima wa Komori

الاتحاد القمر

République du Congo

조선 민주주의 인민 공화국

Chosun Minjujui Inmin Gonghwaguk

대한민국 / 大韓民國

Daehan Min-guk

República de Costa Rica

Côte d'Ivoire

Republika Hrvatska

República de Cuba

Kongeriget Danmark

جمهورية جيبوتي

République de Djibouti

Commonwealth of Dominica

جمهوريّة مصر العربيّة

Jumhuriyat Misr al-Arabiyah

Al Imarat al ´ Arabiyah al Muttahidah

Equador

Hagärä Ertra

إريتريا

Eritrea

España

Eesti

United Stats of America

Република Македонија Поранешна Југословенска Република Македонија

Republika Makedonija

Suomen Tasavalta

République française

République gabonaise

Republic of Gambia

Republic of Ghana

Gibraltar

Ellinikí Dimokratía

Ελλάδα

Commonwealth of Grenada

Kalaallit Nunaat

Grønland

Guadeloupe

Guam

Guåhån

República de Guatemala

Guernesey

République de Guinée

República de guiena ecuatorial

Guinée équatoriale

República da Guiné-Bissau

Co-operative Republic of Guyana

Haïti

Repiblik d'Ayiti

Republica de Honduras

Magyar

Christmas Islands

Norfolk Island

Cayman Islands

Cook Islands

Territory of Cocos Island

Falkalnd Islands

Føroyar

Færøerne

Fidji

Matanitu ko Viti

Salomons Islands

Turks-and-Caicos

Virgin Islands

Republik Indonesia

جمهوری اسلامی ايران

Jomhūrī-ye Eslāmī-ye Īrān

Al `Irāq

العرا

Eire

Ireland

Ísland

Medinat Yisra'el

Dawlat Isra'il

שמורות

Italia

Jamaïca

Yan Mayen

Nihon Koku

日本

Jarvis Island

Jersey

Johnston Atoll

Al Mamlakah al Urduniyah al Hashimiyah

المملكة الأردنّيّة الهاشميّة

Juan de Nova Island

Қазақстан Республикасы

Qazaqstan Respublïkası

Jamhuri ya Kenya

Republic of Kenya

Kingman Reef

Кыргыз Республикасы

Kiribati

دولة الكويت

Dawlat al Kuwayt

Mmuso wa Lesotho

Kingdom of Lesotho

Latvijas

الجمهوريّةاللبنانيّة

République du Liban

Republic of Liberia

الجماهيرية العربية الليبية الشعبية الإشتراكية

Fürstentum Liechtenstein

Lietuvos Respublika

Lietuva

Grossherzogtum Luxembourg

Grand Duché de Luxembourg

中華人民共和國澳門特別行政區

République de Madagascar

Repoblikan'i Madagasikara

Malaysia

Republic of Malawi

Dziko la Malaŵi

République du Mali

Repubblika ta' Malta

Republic of Malta

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

لمملكة المغربية

Martinique

Republic of Mauritius

الجمهورية الإسلامية الموريتانية

République islamique de Mauritanie

Mayotte

Estados Unidos Mexicanos

Micronesia

Republica Moldova

Principauté de Monaco

Монгол Улс

Mongol Uls

Montserrat

República de Moçambique

Namibia

Ripublik Naoero

Republic of Nauru

Republica de Nicaragua

Niger

Nigeria

Niue

Niuē

Kongeriket Norge

Noreg

Nouvelle-Calédonie

New Zeland

Saltanat Uman

سلطنة عُمان

Republic of Uganda

Jamhuri ya Uganda

O'zbekiston Respublikasi

اسلامی جمہوریت پاکستان

Islami Jamhuria Pakistan

República de Panamá

Papua New Guinea

República del Paraguay

Tetä Paraguáype

Nederland

Peru

Republika ng Pilipinas

Polska

Polynésie française

Pōrīnetia Farāni

Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico

Portugal

Dawlat Qatar

دولة قطر

République démocratique du Congo

Zaïre

Congo-Kinshasa

Repubilika ya Kongo Demokratika

Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Kongo

Republiki ya Kóngo Demokratiki

Ditunga dia Kongu wa Mungalaata

República Dominicana

Ceská Republika

Romania

United Kingdom

Российская Федерация

Rossiiskaïa Fédératsiya

Repubulika y'u Rwanda

République Rwandaise

Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Helena

Commonwealth of Saint Lucia

San Marino

Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

República de El Salvador

Malo Sa'oloto Tuto'atasi o Samoa

Independent State of Samoa

Samoa

República Democrática de São Tomé e Príncipe

République du Sénégal

Република Србија

Republika Srbija

Repiblik Sesel

Republic of Seychelles

Sierra Leone

Republic of Singapore

Republik Singapura

Cingkappūrā Kudiyaracu

Xīnjīapō Gònghégúo

Slovenská republika

Republika Slovenija

Soomaaliya

الصومال

جمهورية السودان

Jumhuriyat al-Sudan

Prajatantrika Samajavadi Janarajaya

Ilankai Sananayaka Sosolisa Kudiyarasu

Sverige

Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft

Confédération suisse

Confederazione Svizzera

Confederaziun svizra

Helvetia

Republiek Suriname

Kingdom of Swaziland

Umbuso Swatini

الجمهوريّة العربيّة السّوريّة

Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон

جمهوری تاجکستان

Jumhurii Tojikiston

中華民國

United Republic of Tanzania

Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania

Jumhuriyat Tshad

République du Tchad

TAAF

Muang Thai

ประเทศไทย

Repúblika Demokrátika Timor Lorosa'e

República Democrática de Timor-Leste

Togo

Tokelau

Pule'anga Fakatu'i 'o Tonga

Kingdom of Tonga

Republic of Trinidad and Tobago

لجمهورية التونسية

Türkmenistan Jumhuriyäti

Türkiye Cumhuriyeti

Tuvalu

Украïна

Ukraïna

República Oriental del Uruguay

Ripablik blong Vanuatu

Republic of Vanuatu

République du Vanuatu

Santa Sede Stato della Città del Vaticano

República Bolivariana de Venezuela

Cộng Hoà Xã Hội Chủ Nghĩa Việt Nam

Wallis-et-Futuna

ﺍﻟﺠﻤﻬﻮﺭﯾّﺔ اليمنية

Republic of Zambia

Republic of Zimbabwe

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