Made from recycled material and designed for recycling: Starlinger viscotec, a division of the Austrian machinery supplier Starlinger & Co GmbH, has developed a new material to make packaging for dairy and hot-fill products fully recyclable.
School milk in Upper Austria is now packaged in 100% sustainable cups made of recycled PET (rPET). The project is revolutionizing the food packaging market and proves that a sustainable circular economy is possible.
Changing from a linear to a circular economy, the quality of the recycled material plays an increasingly important role. Lindner is taking on this challenge and will be presenting a new hot-wash system for recovering PET (polyethylene terephthalate) at Fakuma
The varying and constantly changing composition of waste materials poses a challenge for designers of sorting plants, which need to deliver consistently high purity rates while managing an increasing degree of complexity.
A new report from AMI Consulting presents a comprehensive analysis of the state of play and future outlook for the recycling of flexible polyolefin films in Europe.
The 27th Fakuma international trade fair for plastics processing extends its invitation to the live trade fair in Friedrichshafen from the 12th through the 16th of October, 2021.
Finally, trade shows are back. After more than one and a half years without events and personal interactions, the anticipation of face-to-face trade shows is palpable.
Tomra and Gualapack work together to prove the recyclability of Gualapack’s first-of-a-kind monomaterial PP spouted pouch through all stages of treatment of a DKR rigid PP waste stream.
Repsol will build two polymer materials plants at its Sines Industrial Complex (Portugal), representing the largest industrial investment in Portugal in the last ten years, at €657 million. The new materials produced are 100% recyclable, like the rest of Repsol's polyolefins.
The Ferrero Group is making further strides in its commitment to making 100% of packaging reusable, recyclable or compostable by 2025. As part of this journey, the business has announced new global partnerships with HolyGrail 2.0 and Consumer Goods Forum (CGF).
Interview with Ton Emans, CEO of Plastics Recyclers Europe
Cedo announces plans of expansion of its recycling capability, with an investment that will more than double its capacity for recycling of flexible plastic films before 2024.