After winning a prestigious sustainability award at Pack Expo International last month for this circular solution, Berry Global Group, Inc. is the first plastic packaging manufacturer in Europe to supply The Coca-Cola Company with a lightweight, tethered closure for its carbonated soft drinks in PET bottles. Bolstered by the European Union
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Issues facing the rPET market Everyone in the industry knows there are complex issues with regards to the availability, affordability and consistency of high quality clear rPET. There are so many factors that play into this that Holland Colours wanted to showcase the different aspects to better understand this problem. Holland
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Nordson’s recycling history started way back in the 70ies when hardly anybody else was talking about it. Their film silo was one of the first technologies in the market for in-house recycling. The silo was designed to store and melt shredded pieces of film, which were then fed to the extruder
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The latest report on South Africa’s plastics manufacturing and recycling industries, published by Plastics South Africa (Plastics SA) at the end of 2022, recorded total growth of 4.7% in 2021. A total of 1,904,924 t of polymer were converted into new plastics products during the year. This sum included locally produced and
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Investment in state-of-the-art equipment pays off From Spain, we passed the Pyrenees and were warmly welcomed in France in Chalon-sur-Saône, 135 km north of Lyon, at the SGT & SGR factory site. Our last visit was already six years ago, and a lot has happened since then. The SGR/SGT team looked somewhat
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A conversation with India’s largest private company December 9, 2022, Reliance Industries Ltd. We met:Mr Bharat B Mehta, Vice President – PET MarketingMr Rakesh Bali, Senior Vice President, Head Marketing (Petchem)Mr Raghunath Datar, Regional ManagerMr Rajiv Kumar, AVP – PET MarketingMr Aditya Pahurkar, Manager Sales & Marketing (PET)Mr Shubhang Shanbag, Manager
Read MoreThe US-based Recycling Partnership’s PET Recycling Coalition (Coalition) announced three grants to grow and strengthen PET recycling. In its initial round of granting, the Coalition awarded grants to two PET reclaimers and one Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) that will result in over 2.5 million pounds per year of new PET capture,
Read MoreAround 2,700 companies from all over the world will be presenting cutting-edge technologies and packaging trends along the entire value chain in Düsseldorf from 4 to 10 May 2023 – the fully booked Interpack 2023 features a hall concept with clear industry focal points. To help visitors not get lost in
Read MoreA new cash incentive system, placing deposits on drinks bottles and cans, is intended to boost recycling in the UK from 2025. New plans set out in a consultation response detail that, through small cash deposits placed on single-use drinks containers, people will likely be incentivised to recycle their drinks bottles
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Carbios has announced the strengthening of its management team with the appointment of Martine Brisset as Senior Vice President from 1 January 2023. In this capacity, she will manage the biodegradation business and oversee the Human Resources, Legal, Regulatory, Project Management and QHSE support functions. Martine Brisset joins the Group’s Executive
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The Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technology (MoIAT) oversaw the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW) on 17th January 2023, which will lay the groundwork for a 12,000 t/a PET recycling facility in Abi Dhabi, UAE, as announced by the Emirates News Agency, WAM.
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