corvaglia and FluidSolids: strategic partnership for the production and marketing of bio-based material alternatives for the packaging industry

corvaglia and FluidSolids: strategic partnership for the production and marketing of bio-based material alternatives for the packaging industry

28 Jan 202628 Jan 2026 Heike Fischer 487 Views 2 min read

A leading provider of innovative closure solutions for beverage packaging and a developer of high-per-formance bio-based materials are combining their expertise: corvaglia and FluidSolids will jointly support their customers in achieving their sustainability goals. Quality, reliability, innovation, and sustainability are the core values shared by the two Swiss companies, corvaglia and

Sugar Unloading at Avantium’s FDCA Flagship Plant

Companies Materials

Avantium expects to complete start-up of its FDCA flagship plant by mid-2026

28 Jan 202628 Jan 2026 Gabriele Kosmehl 264 Views 1 min read

Avantium N.V. provided an update on the start-up of its FDCA Flagship Plant in Delfzijl, the Netherlands. The company now expects to complete start-up by mid-2026 and to commence sales of product under its existing offtake agreements in the second half of 2026. This updated timeline is a result of construction-related

Otsuka Beverage products using 100% recycled PET (rPET) resin bottles

Bottles / Bottle Making Materials

Otsuka Pharmaceutical begins rollout of 100% rPET bottles

27 Jan 202627 Jan 2026 Gabriele Kosmehl 381 Views 1 min read

Japanese company Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. will begin a nationwide rollout of PET bottle containers made from 100% recycled PET resin from late January this year. As a result, more than 90% (by number of bottles) of the company’s PET bottle beverage products will use containers made entirely from recycled PET

Avantium and Packamama Sign Capacity Reservation Agreement for Releaf to Drive Sustainable Wine Packaging, Santiago Navarro, CEO & Founder at Packamama

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Avantium, Packamama agree on capacity reservation for plant-based PEF for wine packaging

15 Jan 202615 Jan 2026 Gabriele Kosmehl 442 Views 1 min read

Avantium N.V. has entered into a capacity reservation agreement with Packamama, a company active in wine packaging in the UK and Australia. Through this collaboration, Packamama will secure future volumes of Avantium’s plant-based and recyclable polymer PEF (polyethylene furanoate), branded as releaf, from licensed plants using Avantium’s proprietary YXY Technology for

HELIX chemically recycled PET from JEPLAN

Companies Materials Recycling

JEPLAN Group and Asahi Soft Drinks to produce rPET from used PET bottles manufactured by chemical recycling

22 Dec 202518 Dec 2025 Gabriele Kosmehl 874 Views 1 min read

JEPLAN, Inc., together with its group company PET REFINE TECHNOLOGY Co., Ltd., and Asahi Soft Drinks Co., Ltd., report a technological development in chemical recycling that enables the production of recycled PET resin using used PET bottles as the sole feedstock. According to the companies, the process does not rely on

Materials

A new certificate for the renewable carbon economy

19 Dec 202518 Dec 2025 Gabriele Kosmehl 562 Views 2 min read

The certification body TÜV AUSTRIA has introduced a new label, “OK renewable”, designed to quantify the share of fossil carbon in manufacturing and products that has been replaced by renewable and recycled carbon sources. The label expresses this information as a single, easy-to-understand product attribute, covering inputs such as biomass, captured

Materials Recycling Sustainability

NAPCOR releases 2024 PET recycling report

12 Dec 202511 Dec 2025 Gabriele Kosmehl 1391 Views 3 min read

The National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR) released its 2024 PET Recycling Report, the 30th annual analysis of PET plastic recycling activity, providing a comprehensive look at PET bottle collection, recycling system performance, and end-market dynamics in the United States and Canada. Despite ongoing market volatility, the report confirms that

Materials News Recycling

Faerch (Cirrec) and TOMRA Recycling partner to pioneer post-consumer food tray-to-tray recycling

11 Dec 202510 Dec 2025 Heike Fischer 667 Views 4 min read

Cirrec BV, part of the Faerch Group and located in Duiven, The Netherlands, has achieved a significant breakthrough in plastics recycling thanks to TOMRA Recycling’s flakes solutions. As Faerch’s dedicated recycling division, Cirrec specialises in circular solutions for plastics. Its mission is to enable true circularity in food packaging by transforming

Events Materials

AI Circular Economy Conference 2026 – How AI innovations drive the future of circular materials

9 Dec 20259 Dec 2025 Gabriele Kosmehl 1034 Views 5 min read

The AI Circular Economy Conference, organised by nova-Institute, takes place in Cologne, Germany, and online on March 4–5, 2026. The event brings together top experts from AI development, chemical manufacturing, recycling, materials science, biotechnology, and investment to explore how artificial intelligence is shaping the transition to circular and sustainable material systems.

Materials

New collection of semi-translucent effect colourants

24 Nov 202521 Nov 2025 Gabriele Kosmehl 590 Views 0 min read

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

Materials Recycling

Avantium’s Releaf receives CPBR approval for recycling in Japan

5 Nov 20254 Nov 2025 Gabriele Kosmehl 721 Views 1 min read

Avantium N.V. announced that its plant-based plastic PEF (polyethylene furanoate), branded as releaf, has received official approval for recycling within the Japanese PET bottle stream by the Council for PET Bottle Recycling (CPBR). Avantium earned the approval for the use of releaf, produced with Avantium’s YXY Technology, in a multilayer PET bottle. This approval represents an important condition for the adoption of PEF in Japan’s beverage

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