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The winners of the Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2024 were announced yesterday at the Plastics Recycling Show Europe in Amsterdam. For the first time in the seven-year history of the awards, the judges have announced two Plastics Recycling Ambassadors as well as the four product and two innovation category winners. The
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PlastiVation Machinery GmbH announces the appointment of Thomas Strecker as its new Managing Director. This strategic leadership change comes amid a year of positive order growth, positioning the company to assume greater responsibilities as an independent entity within the Tederic Group. Notably, PlastiVation will now oversee the sales of the Tederic
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For Indian preform and plastic packaging manufacturer Magpet Polymer Pvt Ltd, Coperion and Herbold Meckesheim are collaborating technologies in construction of an entire plant for bottle-to-bottle recycling from a single source. In addition to mechanical processing of used PET bottles, the recycling system encompasses all process steps leading up to extrusion
Read moreUV barriers developed by Avient and destined for PET bottles are approved as limited compatible with the PET bottles recycling stream in Europe Avient Corporation’s technologies for UV barriers, developed to protect PET packaging and its contents from the degradation effects of light and UV radiation, are the first to receive
Read moreThe world’s largest event dedicated to plastics recycling, the Plastics Recycling Show Europe, takes place next week at RAI Amsterdam, the Netherlands, from 19-20 June 2024. Visitors can still register for free at: www.prseventeurope.com The PRS Europe exhibition and conference attracts thousands of professional stakeholders of the entire plastics recycling value
Read moreCCL Industries Inc. (“the Company”), a world leader in specialty label, security and packaging solutions for global corporations, government institutions, small businesses and consumers, announced it has completed the acquisition of the remaining 50% equity interest in its Middle East joint venture, Pacman-CCL (“PCCL”), from its partner, Albwardy Investment LLC, headquartered
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Multinational plastic packaging producer Retal is pleased to announce a new industrial partner in Central Asia. A Polymer Industries LLC, trading as Orzuplast, in Uzbekistan is a provider of packaging solutions for its local and neighbouring markets and is now welcomed by Retal as the latest addition to its partner network,
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Liberty Coca-Cola Beverages teams with WestRock to replace multipack plastic rings with paperboard packaging carriers. Liberty Coca-Cola Beverages, a local Coca-Cola bottler serving Philadelphia, New Jersey and New York City, and WestRock (NYSE:WRK), a leading provider of sustainable paper and packaging solutions, has successfully completed the installation of new equipment and
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Aldi has introduced 100% recycled plastic (rPet) in some of its own-brand washing up liquid bottles. The move, which applies to its standard Magnum washing up liquid, as well as its Antibacterial and 1 litre Magnum Classic variants – excluding the caps and labels – is rolling out into stores nationwide.
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The Alpla Group and Re-Purpose have announced a strategic partnership that will advance sustainable packaging solutions and strengthen the feedstock value chain of Alpla’s very first PET recycling facility in Africa. Alpla is investing 60 million euros in the construction of a state-of-the-art recycling plant in Ballito in the South African
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Cooperation between Lindner Washtech and Erema delivers consistent quality in post-consumer recycling. How to achieve consistent recycled pellet quality in plastics recycling by exchanging data between the extruder and washing system, and how intelligent energy management reduces costs, was revealed at IFAT in Munich by the Erema Group and Lindner. This
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