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Sustainability assessors, EcoVadis, will map and rate the environmental, social and ethical performance of Sidel’s suppliers as part of its new supply chain strategy. EcoVadis has over 17 years of experience in supply chain sustainability assessment and has rated over 125,000 companies. The organisation rates businesses based on four key categories:
Read moreMultinational plastic packaging producer Retal has earned its first A-score from the globally-recognised Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), rewarding the company’s improved management of climate change after getting a B-score during four years in a row. As the gold standard of climate change management evaluation, CDP represents the reference for investors, to assess
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Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited, a global sustainable chemical company, has been awarded the prestigious ‘Platinum Medal’ by EcoVadis Sustainability Assessment, underscoring the company’s unwavering commitment to sustainability. Indorama Ventures actively participates in the annual EcoVadis assessment to measure its sustainable practices, ensuring alignment with the diverse requirements of key customers across
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PiovanGroup launches a new strategic division in industrial and process cooling, the result of the integration of the business segments operated by the recently acquired Thermal Care and the existing Aquatech. The two companies share a 50-year history of designing, selling, and servicing high-quality heat transfer solutions for the plastics, food,
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In Kırklareli, in the European part of Türkiye, the latest recycling plant of the special machinery manufacturer Herbold Meckesheim is being built for the company Doğa. After commissioning, the washing line is expected to produce a daily output of 100 metric tons of PET recyclate. Doğa, a company hitherto active in
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The compact new design offers enhanced hygiene and quality, while also improving sustainability and contributing to a reduced total cost of ownership. With the EvoFill PET, Sidel has taken a further step forward with its filling innovations. The space-saving filler can handle high production speeds of up to 90,000 bottles per hour
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The plastics recycling company based near Istanbul, Türkiye, commissioned its new Starlinger recoSTAR PET 215 iV+ bottle-to-bottle recycling system in the last quarter of 2023. The PET bottle-to-bottle line is the second plastics recycling system from Starlinger that Tanrıkulu has installed. It is in operation at Tanrıkulu’s post-consumer PET processing plant
Read moreLoop Industries, Inc., a clean technology company whose mission is to accelerate a circular plastics economy by manufacturing 100% recycled PET plastic and polyester fiber, announced this week that it had signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Reed, a European investment firm focused on high impact and technology-enabled infrastructure.
Read morePetcore Europe will welcome speakers from across the European Commission and PET value chain at its annual conference being held in Brussels from 7th to 8th of February 2024. Day One features a series of presentations and panel discussions where delegates will hear from brand owners, retailers, producers, converters, recyclers and
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Pharma and recycling expansion, new markets and products: Alpla, the developer and manufacturer of plastic packaging solutions, invested in further development and growth in 2023. The global packaging and recycling specialist closed the financial year with turnover of 4.7 billion euros. Lower material and energy costs paired with exchange rate factors
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Petainer announced their inaugural Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) report, covering 2022. The report details significant progress against key sustainability metrics, including reduction in: virgin resin usage, greenhouse gas emissions and energy usage from non-renewable sources. Hugh Ross, CEO of Petainer commented “Petainer enables businesses to grow without their CO2 footprint growing
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