Breaking the bottlenecks of recycled plastic content
Brand owners and packaging converters in the plastics industry are facing major bottlenecks in recycled content availability.
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Vecoplan at Plastpol - Back to the cycle
Plastpol: Vecoplan to present its broad range of products for processing plastic waste
Südpack and SN German Pouch-Pack Technology present sustainable flow pack concept at Anuga FoodTec
The fully recyclable packaging concept by Südpack will be on display on the rotary form, fill and seal machine FME 50 in hall 8.1 at stand B-049 of SN German Pouch-Pack Technology.
Tomra Recycling chosen as equipment provider of DGrade’s new sorting plant in Abu Dhabi
DGrade opened its first sorting facility situated in Abu Dhabi to produce high-quality recycled plastic content for the industries with the help of Tomra’s Autosort and Autosort Flake.
Vecoplan has a brand-new website online
Vecoplan has completely redesigned its Internet site. The machine manufacturer offers visitors significant added value with its informative and highly interesting site content.
Mondi and Thimonnier team up to make recyclable packaging for liquid soap refills
Mondi, a global leader in packaging and paper, has joined forces with French machine supplier Thimonnier to develop a recyclable packaging that reduces plastic waste.
EFSA-compliant process produces food-safe sheet from PET recyclate
Reifenhäuser Cast Sheet Coating has developed a particularly efficient production process that allows PET recyclate to be processed directly into food-safe sheet without an upstream drying process.
Borealis and Grabher partnership gives used FFP2 face masks another life
High-quality face masks made in Austria by Grabher contain fully recyclable meltblown polypropylene supplied by Borealis
Continental launches first tires with polyester made from recycled PET bottles
Continental is the first tire manufacturer to immediately launch volume production of recycled polyester yarn which is obtained from PET plastic bottles in a new process.
Erema establishes new R&D centre for innovative recycling technologies
The ground-breaking ceremony on April the 6th signals the start of work on a new R&D centre. Two halls with a total area of 1,550 square metres and a new office building with 50 workplaces will be built.
Erema mourns the passing of company co-founder Georg Wendelin
Georg Wendelin, company co-founder, former Managing Partner and long-time Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Erema Group GmbH, died on the 29th of March at the age of 84.
Sidel strengthens commitment to FHPC markets
Today, Sidel reaffirmed its ambition to help FHPC brands meet sustainability goals and stay competitive as it announced the appointment of a new global vice president
Solvay partners with Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials to recycle end-of-life medical components
Medical equipment made using Solvay’s Udel high-performance polysulfone (PSU) thermoplastic will be recycled at the end of their useful lives in a new sustainability initiative that the company has embarked on with Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials (MCAM).
TOMRA celebrates 50th anniversary by announcing world without waste mission
TOMRA, the global provider of advanced collection and sorting systems, celebrates its 50th anniversary today.
MOL Group acquired ReMat, Hungary’s market leading plastics recycling company
MOL Group acquired ReMat Zrt., a recycler with production plants located in Tiszaújváros and Rakamaz, Hungary, and a logistics hub in Bratislava, Slovakia. ReMat is a market leading plastics recycler in Hungary with an annual processing capacity of 25,000 tons.
The National Test centre Circular Plastics (NTCP) trusts in Lindner Washtech’s Modular Washing System
The NTCP (National Test centre Circular Plastics) has set out to examine the behaviour of different plastics during sorting and washing.
EPR unpacked - a policy framework for a Circular Economy
TOMRA - Circular economy packaging. The solution to packaging waste begins with mandatory EPR
Green products drive Sirmax Group's business, taking 2021 turnover to 480 million euros
The second US plant, entirely dedicated to the production of circular polymers, is now operational
STADLER designs and installs state-of-the-art light packaging sorting plant in Eitting, Germany for PreZero Recycling
The new facility is the most advanced light packaging sorting plant in Europe, capable of sorting the packaging fractions by color and, very importantly, even filter black plastics. This results in extremely high-quality output that can be recycled into new products. With an annual throughput of approximately 120,000 tons, it is also the biggest light packaging plant in Europe.
It’s ready, steady, go … for recycled content and the Plastic Packaging Tax
The tax on the production and import of plastic packaging with less than 30% PCR (post-consumer recycled content) comes into force on April 1, 2022.
With Kreyenborg’s new technology, odor-contaminated post-consumer plastics get “second life”!
Kreyenborg has developed sustained, high-level expertise in plastics recycling, with solutions for decontamination of PCR-PET, crystallization, drying, and heating of bulk materials, using infrared technology.
Packaging solution using certified circural polyethylene from ocean bound plastic
SABIC, Polivouga and Nueva Pescanova collaborate in seafood packaging solution using certified circural polyethylene from ocean bound plastic
AMUT successfully contributes to Viridor’s green ambitions
In 2020 AMUT was selected by UK-based Viridor, one of the global leading actors embodying the circular economy philosophy, for its world class polymer recycling facility.
Anviplas and EREMA - working together over generations
The Spanish recycling company Anviplas has relied on the technology and service provided by the Austrian recycling machine manufacturer.
Closing the loop with aluminum barrier tubes
Hoffmann Neopac has signed a partnership with Saperatec. The manufacturer of barrier tubes for pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and oral care products will supply its production waste to the first industrial recycling plant for aluminum laminate composites.
New US plant for Sirmax Group
SER North America is the second US plant built in Anderson, Indiana, by the Italian Sirmax Group, a sustainable producer of polypropylene compounds, engineering plastics, post-consumer compounds and bio-compounds for a wide range of applications.
Investment in chemical recycling
Südpack and Clean Cycle Investments invest in Carboliq, provider of an innovative technology for chemical recycling.
ABB publishes Sustainability Report 2021
ABB has released its Sustainability Report 2021, outlining the achievements of the company under the four pillars of its ambitious 2030 sustainability strategy.
SABIC collarborates with Kraton for certified renewable butadiene
The new collaboration with Kraton will deliver certified renewable butadiene from SABIC’s Trucircle portfolio for use in Kraton’s certified renewable styrenic block copolymers (SBC).
Ninth SFXmagnus rotary filtration system commissioned at MP3 in Italy
ABS/PMMA sheet manufacturer future proofs its extrusion lines by retrofitting them with rotary filtration systems for processing regrind
E-LOOP H801 MR with mechanical recycled content is now available
ELIX Polymers, a global leader in specialised styrene-based thermoplastics, has recently launched the E-LOOP brand to collect new sustainable innovations.
ALPLA expands its PET recycling capacity in Germany
The packaging and recycling specialist acquires Texplast and the joint venture PET Recycling Team Wolfen
European mechanical plastics recycling exceeded 8 mln tonnes in 2021
European mechanical plastics recycling exceeded 8 million tonnes in 2021 despite feedstock insecurities caused by Covid-19 slowdown
Sirmax Group at Plastics 2022
The Italian brand takes its high quality and the consolidated experience of Sirmax, its parent company which recently featured in Newsweek as one of the most sustainable companies in Italy, to the event in Washington DC.
PRSE 2022 Visitor Registration now open
The Plastics Recycling Show Europe (PRSE), the pan-European exhibition and conference dedicated to plastics recycling, returns to Hall 12 at the RAI Amsterdam, The Netherlands on 22-23 June 2022.
KHS presents future-proof line and packaging systems at Anuga FoodTec
Reliable and close to the customer: KHS presents future-proof line and packaging systems at Anuga FoodTec • InnoPET BloFill ACF-L block system for aseptic filling • Standardized data interchange between IT systems and machines • Holistic packaging systems for greater environmental protec