PETpla.net Insider 05 / 2015

NEWS 8 PET planet insider Vol. 16 No. 05/15 www.petpla.net RAL Quality Association endorses high grade PET recycling A further eight companies are awarded the seal of approval. At the 3rd meeting of members of the RAL Gütege- meinschaft Wertstoffkette PET Getränkeverpackungen e.V. (Registered Association RAL Quality Association - Recy- clable Materials Chain PET Beverages Packaging e.V.) in March, 2015, a further eight companies were awarded the seal of approval. Representatives of the beverages pro- ducer, PepsiCo Deutschland GmbH, the preform manu- facturer PET-Verpackungen GmbH Deutschland (PET Packaging GmbH Germany), Varioform PET-Verpackungen Ges.m.b.H (PET Packaging Ges.m.b.H), Lübecker Kunstst- offwerk GmbH (Lübeck Plastics Plant GmbH) and Plastikpak Luxpet, together with the PET recycling companies PET Recycling Team GmbH, Texplast GmbH and STF Recycling GmbH, accepted the certificate of quality approval. This brought the total of number of leading companies in the beverages industry and the plastics processing industry that have already acquired the RAL seal of approval to twelve. “Our members stand out because they consistently pro- mote technical and product innovations at the various stages of production with a common aim of developing a closed circuit operation in terms of PET recyclables and continu- ing to improve the product-related ecological balance” says Andreas Normann, Chairman of the Board of the RAL Qual- ity Association. PET lightweight bottles with the RAL seal of approval contain a minimum of 25% PET bottle recyclate. The member companies of the RAL Quality Association voluntar- ily submit to third party monitoring in order to achieve the seal of quality. The quality association is an initiative of the IK Industrievereinigung Kunstverpackungen (Industrial Plas- tic Packaging Association e.V.) and the Arbeitsgemeinschaft konsumenten- und ökologieorientierte Getränkeverpackun- gen (Working Party Consumer- and Ecology-oriented Bever- ages Packaging e.V.) (AKÖG). It is supported by an advisory committee on which the Fraunhofer Institute of Packaging (IW) and the Fresenius institute are represented. www.kunststoffverpackungen.de PETnology to cooperate with CCFEI for Polyester and PET Packaging Conference in China, Shanghai, September 16-18, 2015 PETnology and CCFEI have agreed to cooperate for the 11th China International Recycled Polyester and PET Pack- aging Conference & Exhibition being held in Shanghai on September 16-18, 2015. The focus of the well-established CCFEI event, attracting more than 300 participants, focused in the past on polyester recycling. With the cooperation, the range of topics will be enlarged to PET packaging. www.petnology.com www.ccfei.net WASHING PLANTS FOR BOTTLES FILMS THERMOFORMS CRATES FIBERS, ETC. the first name in plastic washing system FOR INTERNATIONAL SALES: +39-031-63491250 999514'/#+65#.'5 514'/#+6 MACHINERY FOR THE RECYCLING INDUSTRY