Tomra Recycling and PolyPerception announce new collaboration
Tomra today announced a new collaboration with PolyPerception to offer AI-powered material analysis technology to waste sorting and recycling facilities.
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The European Biopolymer Summit 2023
ACI’s 9th European Biopolymer Summit will be taking place in London, UK, on 8th - 9th February 2023.
Cadel Deinking is now Keycycle Deinking
Erema Group subsidiary Keycycle fully integrates innovative deinking process for printed plastics into its product portfolio
Argentinian plastic recycler relies on Tomra
Reciclar S.A. processes up to 600 million plastic bottles per year thanks to Tomra’s equipment
Innovative recycling solutions attract visitors at K 2022
Erema Group looks back on a successful trade fair
EcoVadis: Gold for Engel
Engel tops sustainability ranking in injection moulding machine manufacturing
Lindner’s Jupiter BW Series sets new standards in film recycling
Make the most of waste. Having this guiding principle in mind, Lindner is presented the new Jupiter BW series at K 2022
K 2022 – a complete success for the Wittmann Group
Under the motto “It’s all Wittmann”, the Wittmann Group showed at this year’s K fair its novelties in the areas of injection molding machines and process technologies, as well as robots and auxiliary appliances
Successful K Fair for Next Generation Recyclingmaschinen GmbH (NGR).
During the eight days of the fair, a large number visited booth C21 in hall 9 to experience the future of plastics recycling live.
Trailblazing new development for plastic fiber and flake recycling
Innovative ZS-B MEGAfeed Side Feeder Makes Plastics Recycling Markedly More Economical
Comprehensive recycling solution with throughputs up to 10t/hr for the plastics industry
MAAG Group's recycling systems make it a strong partner for the circular economy in the plastics recycling industry.
Starlinger: New PET bottle-to-bottle recycling line reduces production costs
Presented for the first time at K 2022, the new machine concept of Starlinger’s recoSTAR PET art saves about 21 % production costs.
Stadler Test and Innovation Center in Slovenia
The two-year-old Stadler Center is fulfilling its role as an innovation hub and participating in important research. It is also providing a valuable service to customers with demonstrations of the sorting process designed for them by Stadler, enabling them to make informed decisions about their investment.
From waste to treasure: the Polish recycling industry
Investment in the waste management sector in Poland remains stable. Investments are mainly in energy from waste. But Poland is slowly catching up in recycling.
Circular economy in the spotlight
AST group uses Lindner plastics recycling technology to close the loop
The fully automated waste sorting plant Roaf maximizes recovery rates thanks to Tomra’s sorters
Since it abolished the separate collection of plastics, the facility could boost its recovery rates of organics and plastics while maximizing its recycling efforts and keeping environmental impact low.
AMUT completes recycling project for customer in Romania
AMUT has completed the commissioning of a recycling plant for Pet Star Recycling, part of Pet Star Group, together with Pet Star Holding, a leading producer of preforms for PET bottles, in Romania.
Dow and Mura Technology announce commitment to scale advanced recycling of plastics
Dow and Mura Technology to build multiple facilities in the U.S. and Europe, adding as much as 600 kilotons of aggregate advanced recycling capacity by 2030.
Lindner at K: Shredding – Washing – Sorting. Efficient all-in-one plastics recycling solutions
At K 2022 in Düsseldorf, Germany, Lindner will be presenting ground-breaking all-in-one solutions for the efficient plastics recycling of tomorrow in Hall 9, at Booth B17 & B19. Along with a wide range of product innovations, a special highlight is a new system solution to directly process post-consumer rigid plastics in an injection moulding process.
SABIC at K Show 2022: making the change real
SABIC will highlight its commitment to circular, sustainable solutions designed to eliminate plastic waste at this year’s K Show.
Plastic recyclers in Europe struggle to get enough waste
What happens with the collected plastic waste? Low available volumes of sorted plastic waste are negatively impacting the operations of plastics recyclers across Europe creating an obstacle to achieving the EU targets.
igus unveils the world's first urban bike made from recycled plastic
No maintenance, no corrosion - the igus:bike sets new standards in sustainable mobility.
Tomra calls for closing the loop on plastics and beyond
Tomra continues to play a key role in closing the loop on PET beverage containers but recognizes that there is more to be done.
TotalEnergies and New Hope Energy partner on U.S. Advanced Recycling Project
TotalEnergies and New Hope Energy announced a commercial agreement under which New Hope Energy will build an advanced recycling plant in Texas to transform end-of-life plastic waste into a recycled feedstock that TotalEnergies will partly purchase and convert into virgin-quality polymers.
VinylPlus exceeds 810,000 tonnes of PVC recycling
VinylPlus announced the results of the first year of its 2030 Commitment at the 10th VinylPlus Sustainability Forum (#VSF2022). Livestreamed from Brussels, #VSF2022 gathered online around 500 participants from 40 countries.
SABIC launches new upcycled resin made with ocean-bound plastic waste
SABIC, a global leader in the chemical industry, today introduced LNP ELCRIN WF0061BiQ resin, a novel material that uses ocean-bound polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles as a feed stream for chemical upcycling into polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) resin.
Tomra to highlight 50 years of circular solutions at IFAT
At IFAT, Tomra will present its intelligent sorting technology and detail how these, combined with holistic approaches, support closing the loop on further material cycles.
Plastics Recycling Show Europe publishes conference programme
The organisers of Plastics Recycling Show Europe, taking place at RAI Amsterdam, the Netherlands on 22-23 June 2022, have published the event’s full conference programme.
Untha prepares for shredding showcase at IFAT 2022
Untha Polska will be heading to the renowned waste and recycling trade fair – IFAT – in late May, as the shredding technology business prepares for one of its largest machinery showcases in years.
Huhtamaki Foundation sets up its first recycling plant in Maharashtra, India
Huhtamaki Foundation sets up its first recycling plant in Maharashtra, India, as part of its #CloseTheLoop initiative.
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.
EPR unpacked - a policy framework for a Circular Economy
TOMRA - Circular economy packaging. The solution to packaging waste begins with mandatory EPR
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.
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
BASF to increase capacity for plastic additives in Europe
BASF will increase production capacity for its hindered amine light stabilizers (HALS) at sites located in Pontecchio Marconi, Italy and Lampertheim, Germany.
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.