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This year, the Advanced Recycling Conference (ARC) 2024 will expand its scope beyond conventional plastic packaging to address pressing issues like e-waste valorisation, PVC recycling, textile recycling, and advanced recycling techniques for engineering thermoplastics. The conference will also highlight innovative funding strategies essential for these advancements. ARC is set for November
Read moreToma has acquired 80% of the shares in C-Trace GmbH, a German leader in digital waste management solutions.C-trace was founded in 2005 and offers software and hardware solutions for the digitalisation and improvement of waste management processes. The strong focus on new AI-driven functions has attracted market interest and is opening
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Neste, Alterra and Technip Energies have signed a collaboration agreement to advance the circularity of plastics by providing the industry a standardised technology solution for chemical recycling, also referred to as “advanced recycling”. The partners aim to globally offer a standardised modular solution, based on Alterra’s proprietary liquefaction technology, to parties
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Alpla is entering the South African PET recycling market. Approximately one and a half years after the start of construction, the packaging and recycling specialist is opening a state-of-the-art plant in Ballito. The company has invested 60 million euros in the new plant in the province of KwaZulu-Natal. From 2025, the
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Starting this November, Suntory Group will begin introducing PET bottles using paraxylene derived from used cooking oil (bio-paraxylene) for select products in Japan. This will be the first*1 commercialided PET bottles using bio-paraxylene*2 and will help significantly reduce CO2 emissions compared to those made from conventional virgin petroleum-based materials. The group
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drink technology India along with PackMach Asia Expo and World Tea & Coffee Expo 2024 came to a successful close after three days of dynamic business networking, product showcasing and knowledge sharing at the Bombay Exhibition Centre, Mumbai, from 23-25 October 2024.Spanning over 18,000 sqm with more than 300 exhibitors from
Read moreThe city administration of Bacolod City recently conducted a pilot PET waste collection campaign at the MassKara festival, where it collected 445,455 PET bottles from 11 to 27 October. Through the campaign, which was a collaboration between the Bureau of Environment and Natural Resources (BENRO), Coca-Cola Philippines, Bacolod Yuhum Foundation Inc.
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SGR, a subsidiary of the SGT group, has officially inaugurated its second PET recycling unit located in Rezé, Loire-Atlantique, further reinforcing its commitment to the circular economy and sustainable development. The Rezé site, with a production capacity of 16,000 tons of rPET per year, becomes one of the first PET recycling
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After approximately a year of renovation, Coca-Cola Europacific Partners Deutschland (CCEP DE) has restarted a production line for 1-liter reusable PET bottles at its Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler site in Germany. The modernised facility now fills around 36,000 bph with carbonated beverages such as Coca-Cola, Fanta, Sprite, and their sugar-free variants. This is
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Josef Hochreiter, shareholder and CEO of the Next Generation Group (NGR), is assuming the role of Managing Director of NGR GmbH, a key member of the group, effective immediately. Hochreiter has previously led the company and is now returning to its operational management. He takes over the position from Gerhard Ohler,
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In line with the announcement made at the inauguration of a semi-industrial demonstration unit at Kitakyushu in Japan in October 2023, Axens, Ifpen and Jeplan, partners in the project, announced the launch of the commercialisation (licensing) by Axens of the Rewind PET process. This step concludes the one-year test period within
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