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Klöckner Pentaplast, a global leader in recycled content products and high-barrier protective packaging, has announced its intention to expand its post-consumer recycled content (PCR) PET capacity in North America with a significant investment to further grow its sustainable innovation offering in consumer health, pharmaceutical, and food packaging markets. The company states
Read moreThe Mexican conglomerate Alfa SAB de CV, whose portfolio includes the subsidiaries Alpek, Sigma, Axtel and Newpek, published the results of Alpek’s performance during the fourth quarter of 2021 on 16 February. In the report, Alfa looks back on an overall successful year to which Alpek (plastic materials, chemicals production with
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Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL), the world’s largest producer of recycled PET for beverage bottles, completed a deal for an 85% equity stake in Czech Republic-based PET plastic recycler, UCY Polymers CZ s.r.o. (UCY), boosting the country and Europe’s plastic collection and recycling ambitions. As a result of the investment,
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In line with incoming packaging tax regulation in the UK to be introduced in April 2022, Paccor’s production team in Mansfield, UK, are now offering caps with a minimum 30% rHDPE (recycled high density polyethylene). This created a challenge due to the different nature of PCR material compared to virgin polymer
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BariQ for Techno and Advanced Industries celebrates the signing for constructing a new PET bottle-to-bottle recycling plant that will feature the latest plastic sorting systems from Tomra Recycling in Giza Governorate, Egypt. The Egypt-based company is the leading rPET producer in the MENA region. In its quest to meet the increasing
Read moreEvergreen, a plastics recycling and manufacturing company owned by The Sterling Group, is heading into 2022 as one of North America’s three largest producers of food grade rPET thanks to millions invested in strategic acquisitions and upgrades. From a single location in January 2021, Evergreen has grown to four locations across
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2021 saw BB Engineering GmbH. Remscheid, Germany, deliver a melt filter for recycling PET flakes to polyester manufacturer Indorama Polyester Industries Thailand. Indorama will be using the type NSF38 filter in its recently assembled recycling system in order to produce rPET granulate from flake PET bottle waste. The NSF38 filter enables
Read moreWith an eye to curbing plastic waste, The Coca-Cola Co. announced the goal to increase the share of its beverages delivered in returnable/refillable containers. The company committed to selling 25% of beverages in refillables by 2030, up from a current 16%. The pledge was in response to a pending shareholder proposal
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The “Cool Three” children’s drinks packaging has been re-thought and now offers better recyclability utilising the new, functional label material “EcoFloat” from CCL Label. This floatable polyolefin shrink sleeve label is claimed to enable the underlying PET bottle to be completely recycled. Labels and sleeves play a major role in the
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From PET bottle caps to skateboard In 2015, the skateboard brand WasteBoards started with the question: “Can we make a skateboard from plastic waste?” Together with the University of Applied Sciences of Amsterdam they developed a prototype. And they continued their development with a group of Amsterdam-based semi-pro street skaters. It
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PepsiCo Beverages North America announced a $35 million investment with Closed Loop Partners to create the “Closed Loop Local Recycling Fund,” a circular economy initiative to advance new small-scale, modular recycling systems in communities across the U.S. The fund aims to increase recycling in areas with no or limited access to
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