8 NEWS PETplanet Insider Vol. 23 No. 12/22 www.petpla.net Repi appoints Dimitris Dounis as new Managing Director in Repi LLC Repi, a leading manufacturer of performance additives and colours for polyurethanes and thermoplastics, announces the appointment of Mr Dimitris Dounis as new Managing Director of the US based company to further support the growth in North and South America. Mr Dounis brings over twenty years of extensive experience in the chemical and polyurethanes industries. He holds a degree in chemical engineering and polymers science and has held various executive positions in multinational companies. Repi will leverage his extensive know-how and network in the chemical industry to boost its strategy to become a reference partner for liquid colour and performance additive solutions in the Americas. Repi entered the United States market with own offices, laboratory, and technical service department back in 2003 to introduce the colour ranges for polyurethane applications. The line of products for thermoplastic polymers followed soon after and in 2012 a new facility with state-of-the-art laboratory, manufacturing, as well as prototyping capabilities for PET packaging applications, was inaugurated in Gastonia, North Carolina. Today the American affiliate serves the Americas with the complete product range, directly or through established partners. www.repi.com Pact’s Australian billion bottle recycling project wins award Pact Group has won a major sustainable project award for bringing Australia’s biggest and advanced PET plastic recycling facility to life in just 370 days. Pact was awarded the Australian Institute of Project Management’s Sustainable Project Management Achievement Award for NSW for the $50 million Circular Plastics Australia (CPA) PET plastic recycling facility in Albury, New South Wales. The CPA facility is a joint venture between Pact, Cleanaway Waste Management, Asahi Beverages and Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP). A team from Pact project managed the build, which was delivered safely, on time and under budget on a greenfield site during a period of major global challenges, including the Covid 19 pandemic, supply chain pressures, and the blockage of the Suez Canal. Despite these challenges, it took one year and five days to establish the site, construct the facility, install the equipment and services, commission the machinery, and train a new team. The facility, which commenced operations in February 2022, has the capacity to recycle the equivalent of around 1 billion 600ml PET plastic beverage bottles each year into high-quality food-grade resin. Cleanaway collects, sorts and delivers PET plastic waste from kerbside collection bins and container deposit schemes to the Pactoperated facility for recycling. The recycled resin is then used by Asahi and Coca-Cola to manufacture new beverage bottles, and by Pact to make new beverage bottles and food packaging. Pact Group CEO Sanjay Dayal said it was a great honour for the Pact team to be recognised for its commitment to driving the circular economy in Australia. The CPA joint venture is building a second PET recycling facility with similar capacity in Melbourne which is due to commence operations in the first half of 2023. The CPA PET project in Albury was supported by a $5 million grant through the NSW Government’s Waste Less, Recycle More initiative, and the Australian Government’s Recycling Modernisation Fund. The award coincides with National Recycling Week, which this year has the theme “Waste isn’t Waste Until it’s Wasted.” www.pactgroup.com Florian Werner to become new CEO at Interzero Plastics Recycling Florian Werner will take over as CEO of Interzero Plastics Recycling, a segment of Europe’s leading provider of recycling solutions, Interzero. The focus of his activities will be on the further expansion of the segment, which is known for its plastics recycling and, with over 800,000 t/a, the largest sorting capacity in Europe. Florian Werner’s work will focus on the strategic development and the deepening of value creation. The measures already started to increase the performance and sorting quality of the plants, as well as the increase in the degree of recycling for plastics - for example, for the provision of plastic waste for chemical recycling - are a good starting position, on which it is now necessary to build further. In addition, the final integration process into the Interzero group of companies, which was newly created this year, is in full swing. “I am looking forward to the new tasks at Interzero. In many industries, the consistent closing of material cycles is moving more and more into the center of attention. Implementing innovative solutions together with the international Interzero team and our customers and thus contributing to a more sustainable use of raw materials is an exciting task on the pulse of time. As an innovation leader and Europe’s largest plastics sorter, with its people, team spirit and wealth of experience, the Interzero Group is excellently positioned for this,” Florian Werner emphasises. Florian Werner previously worked for the Swiss technology group OC Oerlikon AG, where he was head of the “Materials” business unit with locations in the USA, Canada, Germany and China and drove its successful turnaround. The CEO of Interzero Plastics Recycling GmbH, Stephan Schwarz, has left his position on November 1st 2022, to join ArcelorMittal. This step was planned and closely coordinated with Dr Axel Schweitzer, shareholder and chairman of Interzero, as a result of the sale of the former Alba International Recycling metal companies to the steel company. www.interzero.de
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