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INEOS announced a €250m investment programme to regenerate and modernise its cracker at Lavera as part of a bold move to secure the future of one of France’s most important industrial sites and safeguard thousands of jobs. With backing from the French Government, and facilitated by BNP Paribas and ING, INEOS
Read moreWisecap Group, a leading European producer of plastic caps and closures for the beverage industry, and Corvaglia Group, a globally recognized provider of innovative closure solutions for beverage packaging, have entered into a strategic industrial partnership. Under the agreement, Wisecap will integrate the caps manufacturing activities of Corvaglia Closures Eschlikon AG,
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– KHS InnoPET TriBlock speeds up PET production at SLMG Beverages in India. Just in time for the start of the high season, soft drinks bottler SLMG Beverages has increased the capacity at its facility in Chhata by 35%. The key driver here is an InnoPET TriBlock from KHS – this
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The 2026 International Brew & Beverage Technology and Equipment Exhibition for China (CBB 2026) will take place from October 12–15, 2026, at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre. Spanning seven halls and six major thematic areas, the exhibition is expected to welcome nearly 80,000 professional visitors. As the show’s long-established flagship
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Fig. top: Perfect chemical conversion of PET waste bottles to raw chemicals (DMT). (a) PET bottle waste collected from the public station, (b) before reaction with methanol (30.0 g scale) in the presence of iron catalyst, (c) analytically pure product DMT collected by filtration (yield >99.9 %). © Kotohiro Nomura Professor
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The latest 2024 annual report published by Plastics Recyclers Europe reveals the largest capacity contraction ever recorded in the sector. Preliminary 2025 data indicate a 50% increase in recycling facility closures, resulting in the loss of nearly one million tonnes of European recycling capacity over just three years. “Now is the
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SIPA S.p.A. has been awarded the prestigious Sustainability Awards 2025 in the ‘Machinery’ category for its XFORM RENEW direct flake-to-preform technology. The award was officially presented at the ceremony held on November 11 in Utrecht during the Sustainability Summit. This recognition is claimed to highlight a significant step forward in the
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After a decade of concerted effort, leading companies have bent the curve on virgin plastics in packaging. The Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s new 2030 Plastics Agenda for Business provides the blueprint to build on this progress in eliminating plastic waste and pollution in the years ahead. Over the past ten years, more
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Reinhard Schneider won EY Entrepreneur of the Year and Audience Award “Shape the Future with Confidence” was the motto for the 29th EY Entrepreneur of the Year awards ceremony at which Werner & Mertz owner Reinhard Schneider was named winner in the Sustainability category. The owner-managed, visionary company was honored
Read moreCARBIOS and Wankai New Materials, a listed subsidiary of Zhink Group, have signed an agreement outlining the key principles of a collaboration to deploy CARBIOS’ PET enzymatic recycling technology in Asia. This step follows a Letter of Intent signed on June 24, 2024. Under the terms of this agreement, CARBIOS and
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A new chapter for circular plastics in Europe begins with the official opening of Områ, Norway’s new national facility for sorting all types of plastic packaging waste – including plastic that previously had no other option than to go to incineration. Jointly owned by TOMRA (65%) and Plastretur (35%), the state-of-the-art
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