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Arca Continental, Coca-Cola Mexico and other Coca-Cola bottlers and PetStar shareholders have inaugurated the expansion of PetStar’s food-grade PET recycling plant in Toluca, reported to be the largest facility of its kind in Mexico and worldwide. The project represents an investment of MXN 2.6 billion (approx. USD 142 million). At the
Read moreCARBIOS announces the signing of two new multi-year commercial agreements with major players in beverage industry, for the supply of recycled PET (rPET). They form part of the pre-commercialisation process for the company’s future industrial site and bring the current level of pre-sales to around 50% of the site’s maximum production
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Two sites of the CHT Group recently celebrated their company anniversary. The Chinese site CHT Dongguan has just celebrated its 30th anniversary, the Chinese site CHT Tianjin its 15th anniversary. As early as in the 1960s, Reinhold Beitlich, who founded the chemical company CHT in 1953 in Tübingen, Germany, realised the
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Ampacet Corporation has introduced HyperLustre, a collection of semi-translucent colourants developed as a TiO₂-free option for PET packaging. The colourants create a pearlescent visual effect and are intended for use in hair care, personal care and beauty applications. According to Ampacet, the HyperLustre range can be processed with PET using blow
Read moreThe European PET value chain encourages the adoption of the pr EN18120 series for design for recycling and recyclability assessment protocols for plastics packaging developed by CEN TC261/SC4/WG10 Design for Recycling (DfR) standards for plastic packaging, developed under the European Commission’s mandate, as published in a statement by PETCORE EUROPE. These
Read moreWisecap Group, a leading European producer of plastic caps and closures for the beverage industry, and Corvaglia Group, a globally recognized provider of innovative closure solutions for beverage packaging, have entered into a strategic industrial partnership. Under the agreement, Wisecap will integrate the caps manufacturing activities of Corvaglia Closures Eschlikon AG,
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The 2026 International Brew & Beverage Technology and Equipment Exhibition for China (CBB 2026) will take place from October 12–15, 2026, at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre. Spanning seven halls and six major thematic areas, the exhibition is expected to welcome nearly 80,000 professional visitors. As the show’s long-established flagship
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Fig. top: Perfect chemical conversion of PET waste bottles to raw chemicals (DMT). (a) PET bottle waste collected from the public station, (b) before reaction with methanol (30.0 g scale) in the presence of iron catalyst, (c) analytically pure product DMT collected by filtration (yield >99.9 %). © Kotohiro Nomura Professor
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The latest 2024 annual report published by Plastics Recyclers Europe reveals the largest capacity contraction ever recorded in the sector. Preliminary 2025 data indicate a 50% increase in recycling facility closures, resulting in the loss of nearly one million tonnes of European recycling capacity over just three years. “Now is the
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SIPA S.p.A. has been awarded the prestigious Sustainability Awards 2025 in the ‘Machinery’ category for its XFORM RENEW direct flake-to-preform technology. The award was officially presented at the ceremony held on November 11 in Utrecht during the Sustainability Summit. This recognition is claimed to highlight a significant step forward in the
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Intelligent inspection of recycled PET containers Bottles that use recycled PET have become a growing challenge for quality control: recycled material introduces greater optical and surface variability, making defects harder to detect with traditional vision systems. AND & OR tackles this problem with ACUITY, an intelligent inspection solution that combines classical
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