Amcor introduces PET barrier for RTD and dairy alternatives market

Amcor Rigid Packaging (ARP) introduces the DairySeal line of packaging that features ClearCor, an advanced PET barrier. With the introduction of DairySeal, the exploding nutritional, dairy alternatives, and ready-to-drink (RTD) market will now have a more sustainable packaging option that can be leveraged across all retail channels, says Amcor. The ClearCor

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Sidel’s food, home and personal care initiative

Interview with Sidel’s new Global Vice President, Mr Pascal Lefèvre In April 2022 Sidel announced the appointment of Pascal Lefèvre as the new Global Vice President. He will develop and drive Sidel’s food, home and personal care (FHPC) strategy, meeting the unique needs of FHPC markets and delivering flexible, eco-friendly, tailor-made

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UK: New funding competition to drive innovation in smart sustainable plastics

UK Research & Innovation’s Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging (SSPP) Challenge has launched a new £2.5 million Future Plastic Packaging Solutions Round 2 competition for research and innovation projects seeking grant funding from £30,000 to £250,000. From new recycling processes to reuse and refill solutions and novel polymers, the £60 million SSPP

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RadiciGroup: acquisition of Ester Industries Ltd. completed

RadiciGroup High Performance Polymers acquired the Engineering Plastics business of the Indian company Ester Industries Ltd. Last May, RadiciGroup announced this action aimed at strengthening its internationalisation strategy, with an investment of around 35 million euros: the transaction allows RadiciGroup – in India since 2006 – to further reinforce its local

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Koch Technology Solutions and Ioniqa Technologies partner to scale up recycling technology

Koch Technology Solutions (KTS), a Koch Engineered Solutions company, and Ioniqa Technologies B.V. (Ioniqa) announced a partnership to scale up and commercialise Ioniqa’s PET recycle technology in the plastics industry. As part of this collaboration, KTS has committed to invest up to €30M in Ioniqa. Ioniqa has developed a process that

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Alpla and PTT Global Chemical realise Thailand’s largest plastics recycling plant

Following 18 months of construction and installation, the Alpla Group and PTT Global Chemical are opening the state-of-the-art Envicco recycling plant in Thailand. With an annual production capacity of 30,000 tonnes of recycled PET and 15,000 tonnes of recycled HDPE, it is one of the largest recycling plants for these plastics

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One of the largest PET recyclers in Northern Europe backed by INVL Baltic SeaGrowth Fund acquires Czech fibre producer

PET Baltija, one of the largest PET recyclers in Northern Europe, announced an agreement to acquire a leading Czech fibre producer Tesil Fibres s.r.o, a spin-off of Silon s.r.o. Once closed, this transaction will become one of the largest investments by a Latvian company in the Czech Republic to date. This

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Packaging tape with material made from recycled post-consumer PET

Tesa, international manufacturer of adhesive tapes and self-adhesive system solutions, is launching a new packaging adhesive tape. The new Tesa 60412 Recycled PET packaging tape has a waterborne acrylic adhesive system, and 70 per cent of the PET that makes up the backing comes from Post-Consumer Recycling (PCR). Tesa states that

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