The Schwarz Group is reviewing the objectives and progress of its group-wide plastics strategy REset Plastic. The reason for this is the Global Commitment 2021 Progress Report which was published by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, whose initiative the Schwarz Group joined back in 2018. The interim review shows: The corporate group
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In a collaboration for the New Zealand market, Erema and Amut have finalised the installation and commissioning of Alto packaging’s first extrusion line for food grade PET sheets. At the Alto Plastic Packaging site in Albany, the plant now processes 100 % washed post-consumer flakes into 100% food contact grade monolayer
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With the rapidly approaching UK Plastics Tax and increasing consumer interest across the whole of Europe in the provenance of their packaging, Berry Global announces the availability of certified recycled plastic from six of its UK sites. The investment in certification underlines the company’s commitment to its customers during this transitional
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Sabic, a global leader in the chemical industry, and Malaysia-based plastic recycling company HHI, have announced a new collaboration to create the first certified circular polymers produced through the advanced recycling of recovered mixed and used ocean-bound plastic. The certified circular polyolefins from ocean-bound plastic, from Sabic’s Trucircle portfolio of circular
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Egyptian investment firm Raya Holding has completed the disposal of Bariq, its PET recycling specialist subsidiary, to Intro Group, a privately-owned Egyptian conglomerate comprised of a diverse group of companies in various fields including trading and commercial representation; oil and gas; and engineering. Bariq’s recent annual growth rate has been up
Read moreFlint Group Narrow Web introduces two UV-flexo coating products to improve the recyclability for shrink sleeves and pressure sensitive labels. These coatings are currently available in North America and will soon be available in Europe and other regions. Using different chemistries, the Evolution Deinking Primer, for shrink sleeves, and the Evolution
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Arca Continental, bottler for Coca-Cola bottlers, recently pledged to support a voluntary agreement with the National Government of Ecuador, through the Ministry of the Environment, with the goal of strengthening sustainable production and consumption in its Tonicorp business. The Minister of the Environment, Water, and Ecological Transition, Gustavo Manrique, as well
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The Compounding World Expo and Plastics Recycling World Expo returned to Messe Essen in Germany on September 29-30, 2021. This year they were joined by the new Plastics Extrusion World Expo and Polymer Testing World Expo. Organised by Ami, the free-to-attend exhibitions featured more than 200 exhibitors – a 20% increase
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Economical and FDA-compliant recycling of PET flakes – Coperion Gmbh, headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany, says that the drive towards a circular economy for PET has taken another step with its Coperion ZSK twin screw extruders, which can process PET flakes without predrying into pellets. The flakes are then condensed in the
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Dry recyclables and light packaging – 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. Stadler, a leading supplier of sorting plants for the recycling industry, has the
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Producing food contact compliant rPET – One of the first Vacunite bottle-to-bottle systems by Erema started operation in Werne, Germany, in spring 2020. Using this system, the RCS Group, who already produced PET flakes for the non-food sector, is expanding their plastics recycling division to include the production of food-grade PET
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