PETpla.net Insider 11 / 2012

NEWS 9 PET planet insider Vol. 13 No. 11/12 www.petpla.net CCT Creative Competence Technology GmbH Idsteiner Strasse 74 D-65527 Niedernhausen, Germany r.steinmetz@cct-systems.com www.cct-systems.com PET Molds Closure Molds Developments PET Systems Closure Systems Design and Patents CCTsystems ® SST (Standard-Slider-Technology) CCTsystems ® SBT (Slit-Band-Technology) CCTsystems ® SFBT (Slit-Fold-Band-Technology) All Types available with: Design and Patents CCT O26 Series 0,9 g CCT O29 Series 1,2 g CCT O30 Series 1,8 g CCT O38 Series 2,9 g Shanghai hosts 8th China Interna- tional Recycled Polyester Forum Over 300 representatives from businesses in China and 15 other countries attended the 8th China Interna- tional Recycled Polyester Forum, which combined the conference with, for the first time, a polyester recycling industry exhibition. Conference contributions covered a range of topics about the general industry, market devel- opment of polyester recycling, the impact of new leg- islation, and a survey about the technological status of polyester recycling. Zhao Xiangdong, Vice Chairman of CCFA, provided a comprehensive overview of the cur- rent state of PET recycling in China, including the chal- lenge of 70% capacity utilisation, margin reduction and the impact of the financial crisis in Europe and USA. Shi Jianping, President of Cixi Huashun Chemical Fiber Co, Ltd, discussed the evolution and application of recycled filaments like R-POY, R-FDY, R-DTY, R-BCF and techni- cal filaments. China has an R-filament production capac- ity of about 1 million t/a. While it has, hitherto, competed primarily on price, he said that future development will be focused on quality improvements, technical developments and special brands. Environmentally-friendly fibre appli- cations were described by Wang Baoying, Environment Safety Manager of Nike China, which – along with other large brands – is aiming for a significant increase in the use of materials based on recycling. Cheng Qian, General Manager of Yangzhou Zhicheng Chemical Technology Ltd. introduced a new technical development in its chemical recycling process for polyester, which allows the selective breakdown of PET, purification by filtration and subse- quent re-polycondensation. S+S Separation and Sort- ing Technology GmbH and Titech China (part of Tomra) provided an update about their latest features in bottle and flake sorting. Ralf Altepeter of Gneuss Kunststofftechnik GmbH demonstrated its MRS-recycling system. Andreas Christel, from Buehler, presented his company’s recent scaling up of of bottle-to-bottle technology to 100t/d. A new chemical approach in the removal of toxic impurities from bottle flakes was introduced by Girish Bhatt of Bepex International Ltd. www.ccfei.net La Seda de Barcelona becomes Artenius Espana La Seda de Barcelona Group (LSB) has announced that the PET manufacturing business at its production plant in El Prat de Llobregat (Spain) will be renamed Artenius Espana SL, with effect from Octo- ber 1, 2012. All contracts with customers and suppliers of the PET business in Spain will be undertaken by the new subsidiary of LSB from that date onwards. The new name is part of the internal corpo- rate restructuring process of the LSB Group, and complies with the resolutions passed at the latest General Shareholders’ Meeting held on May 3, 2012. The name of the new subsidiary is in line with the different geographical names of the production plants which Artenius, the PET and PET recycling division of LSB, has in other countries. Commercial operations currently in progress will continue under the same conditions as the orders processed by LSB. www.laseda.es