From bales to high-quality PET flakes

Krones Recycling, PRSE 2025 – Booth G41 Krones Recycling, Chinaplas 2025 – Hall 10 Booth W21 Mineral water producer Alma, one of Europe’s leading producers of mineral water, and recycling specialist Veolia have partnered to establish Filao, Belgium’s first PET bottle recycling plant. The newly founded joint venture aims to enhance

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Boretech ships its first complete PET bottle-to-bottle system to India

Boretech, PRSE 2025 – Booth A92 Boretech, Chinaplas 2025 – Hall 6 Booth G41 In February 2025, the provider of end-to-end PET recycling solutions Boretech successfully shipped the main equipment for a complete PET bottle-to-bottle recycling system to India. This marks Boretech’s first full-scale PET bottle-to-bottle system sold to the Indian

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Sustainable solutions with certified resins for EU’s Circular Economy

EcoBlue, PRSE 2025 – Booth H118 EcoBlue Limited, a Thailand-based recycler, is driving the circular economy by producing high-quality rPET, rHDPE, and rPP from post-consumer and industrial waste. By using advanced mechanical recycling, EcoBlue provides sustainable resins for diverse industries such as packaging, consumer goods, automotive, textiles, and home furnishings. From

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UNESCO recognises PetStar for its leadership in recycling

PetStar was selected as an official partner of World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development, UNESCO’s campaign to highlight engineering achievements around the world. The appointment as an official partner is part of a year-long global campaign that will include events, audiovisual productions, articles and news stories highlighting engineering achievements around the

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TCEP launches Design Guidelines for recycling for PET multilayer trays

TCEP enhances the Design for Recycling for PET monolayer trays with the addition of Design for Recycling for PET multilayer trays. This initiative is in line with the work the Thermoform team is carrying out in the CEN Standardisation WG. These guidelines will provide further crucial support to the mechanical recycling

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Jokey Group launches new PET product line for food and supplements

The Jokey Group, Wipperfürth, Germany, is expanding its portfolio with PET packaging produced using the Injection Stretch Blow Moulding (ISBM) process. Global demand for PET packaging made using ISBM technology is growing annually. The process allows for customised shapes and designs while offering high strength, lightweight properties, material transparency, and recyclability—key

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“Turning back is not an option, but moving forward requires a lot of support and protection”

Petcore Annual Conference 2025 The Petcore Annual Conference 2025 took place in Brussels on February 4-5. More than 370 delegates attended and were able to witness first-hand the PET value chain’s commitment to sustainability and innovation.The conference underlined Petcore Europe’s ability to represent the EU PET value chain as reflected in

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