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Just in time for its 40th anniversary at the site, Coca-Cola Europacific Partners Germany (CCEP DE) has commissioned a new PET line in Karlsruhe, Germany. This means that the plant can now fill significantly more beverages: Up to 36,000 PET bottles, each containing 1.25 litres of beverages such as Coca-Cola, Fanta
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Tony Radoszewski is no longer with the Plastics Industry Association, as announced by Tad McGwire, Chairman of the Board. Radoszewski’s last day as President and CEO was Friday, March 25. “Tony Radoszewski is no longer with the Plastics Industry Association. His last day as President and CEO was Friday, March 25.
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Just under two hours south-west of Turin in Italy, at the foot of the Maritime Alps and close to the French border in the province of Cuneo, alpine water finds its way into PET bottles. Sant’ Anna, as the water bottler is called, is a family business ‘with a heart and
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Tomra has just published its latest white paper examining how to achieve greater performance from Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) programs. This policy principle shall give the power to accelerate society’s shift towards a more circular economy, where resources are reused repeatedly to maximize their value.In a webcast that took place on
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The Digital Watermarks Initiative HolyGrail 2.0, driven by AIM – European Brands Association and powered by the Alliance to End Plastic Waste, has achieved a significant milestone with the successful validation, after semi-industrial testing mimicking real-life conditions, of the prototype detection unit for digital watermarks. The results show that the digital
Read moreBB Engineering GmbH, Remscheid, Germany, a subsidiary of Oerlikon Textile, announced that Thai Polyester Co., Ltd, Thailand, has placed an order for four VacuFil systems for recycling bottle flakes with connected direct spinning. The polyester manufacturer, established in 2001 and with an overall annual capacity of 316,800 tons, is one of
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Proceeding on the target of commercializing chemical recycling of waste plastic, Neste is conducting a feasibility study to examine investing in capacity for processing liquefied waste plastic at its refinery in Porvoo, Finland. The goal is to scale up processing capabilities for liquefied waste plastic by implementing proprietary technologies to pretreat
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A large amount of plastic waste from consumer-market packaging is generated daily. In order to obtain high-quality plastic recyclates from these material streams, and to be able to make them reusable for high-quality applications, odorous substances that have migrated into the material during the course of the product-life must be removed.
Read moreIndustrial Physics Inc. announced that it has acquired Steinfurth, a specialist in producing quality control instruments and solutions for the beverage, food, and pharmaceutical industries. For more than 80 years, German based organisation Steinfurth has been developing and producing CO2 measuring instruments, logger systems, carbonation systems, laboratory shakers, beer analysis instruments,
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Recently, in the Chinese province of Fujian, a new Sorema rPET line with a production capacity of 9,000 kg/h of flakes became fully operational and a second rPET line will be operational in the coming months. Both lines are designed to achieve high quality of rPET flakes to manufacture polyester monofilaments
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Environmental services provider PreZero commissioned Stadler, the globally active German company specialised in the planning, production and assembly of turnkey recycling and sorting plants, to design and install a state-of-the-art light packaging sorting facility in Eitting, Germany. The new facility is capable of sorting the packaging fractions by colour and, very
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