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Winners of the innovation award “Renewable Material of the Year 2021” A chair made from hemp fibres and bio-resin, PET bottles made from enzymatically recycled textile waste and CO2-based household cleaners

21 May 202121 May 2021 Heike Fischer 1312 Views 2 min read

The new concept of the Renewable Materials Conference generated an outstanding response: 420 participants witnessed a firework of innovations of non-fossil material solutions and voted for the winners of the innovation award For the first time, the nova-Institute presented highlights and innovations from bio- and CO2-based chemicals and materials as well

Bottles / Bottle Making Companies People

Many changes have been made in response to the pandemic

19 May 20212 Dec 2022 Heike Fischer 4453 Views 14 min read

PETplanet Insider talked with Paolo Nava, CEO of SMI S.p.A. about the past Covid year, current developments in the beverage and packaging industry and SMI’s future investment plans. PETplanet: How did SMI manage the past year during the pandemic? Paolo Nava: Covid-19 has affected life of everybody. During 2020 and still

Events Recycling

4. PETinar: The EU Directive’s impact for the PET value chain

19 May 20212 Dec 2022 Heike Fischer 4552 Views 8 min read

The EU Single Use Plastics Directive EU 2019/904 and its implementation PETplanet’s fourth PETinar on April 22, 2021 welcomed Dr Rana Pant, Directorate-General for Environment, from the European Commission. In addition to explanations on the general content of the directive, the principal question to arise was: What effects will it have

News Recycling

PET recycling: decontamination and IV control in one step

14 May 202114 May 2021 Heike Fischer 1426 Views 1 min read

Currently, the recycling of post-consumer PET bottle flake is well established and it has become a sought after secondary meantime. Increasingly, the focus is shifting toward using other sources of PET waste for recycling, such as post-industrial fibre waste and to other post-consumer sources of PET, such as thermoformed pots, tubs

Companies News

Greiner demonstrates crisis resistance: the 2020 financial year produces a record result

12 May 202112 May 2021 Heike Fischer 1187 Views 5 min read

During the pandemic-shaken crisis year 2020, Greiner showed itself to be a reliable and resilient partner for customers and business associates alike. More-over, the group provided an indispensible contribution to efforts, which were at the forefront of the global response to COVID-19 and its side effects. Products from the Greiner Bio-One

News Recycling

Today’s waste becomes tomorrow’s resource: “Waste4Future” paves new ways for plastics recycling

5 May 20215 May 2021 Heike Fischer 1427 Views 3 min read

A sustainable society with climate-neutral processes requires significant adjustments in the value chains, which are only possible through innovations. Seven Fraunhofer Institutes are pooling their expertise in the lighthouse project “Waste4Future” to develop new solutions for this goal, from the raw material base to material flows and process engineering right to

Companies News Packaging / Palletising

World Packaging Organisation joins forces with members to create ‘WPO Packaging Database’

4 May 20214 May 2021 Heike Fischer 2507 Views 1 min read

WPO (World Packaging Organisation) recently announced the creation of a ‘WPO Packaging Database’ that will contain global data such as regulations, safety, technology, sustainability, etc. all related to the packaging industry. “We have decided to take a step-by-step approach to collect important global packaging information. This is a project we have had in our agenda

Companies News People

Amcor Rigid Packaging names Dan Murphy Vice President of North America operations

29 Apr 202129 Apr 2021 Heike Fischer 2115 Views 2 min read

Amcor Rigid Packaging has announced the appointment of Dan Murphy as Vice President of North America Operations. He will be responsible for driving ARP’s North American safety agenda, promoting operational excellence, increasing supply chain capability, and expanding the company’s production capacity. Before joining Amcor, Murphy spent several years with Howmet Aerospace, the

NPE 2021

StackTeck: Overmoulding Cube applications

28 Apr 202129 Apr 2021 Heike Fischer 4497 Views 2 min read

StackTeck Systems Ltd. announces a successful introduction of technology for overmoulding PET preforms with multiple layers. The first overmoulding system has been designed to achieve a light barrier for light sensitive applications. The system incorporates two preform moulds used in concert with a Niigon rotary cube injection moulding machine, using its

NPE 2021

Urola: Increased service portfolio

28 Apr 202129 Apr 2021 Heike Fischer 3989 Views 2 min read

At NPE, Spanish blow moulding specialist Urola would have presented its increased range of services; Urola Performance, Urola Design and Urola Teleservice. Urola Solutions offers a variety of 100% electric and compact linear PET stretch blow moulding machines for medium production needs. The machine range, all under the name of URBI,

NPE 2021

Gneuss: New size 110 for rotary filtration systems

28 Apr 202129 Apr 2021 Heike Fischer 3798 Views 0 min read

Gneuss Filtration Technology is introducing an additional size across its line of rotary filtration systems. The models RSFgenius, SFXmagnus, SFneos and CSFprimus are now available in a size 110, which offers almost 20% more active screen area than the size 90 for each model, 46 to 62 square inches, depending on