Tomra Recycling appoints Katrin Fricke as its new Head and Executive Vice President (EVP)

Tomra Recycling has announced the appointment of Katrin Fricke as its new Executive Vice President (EVP) and Head of Tomra Recycling, effective June 1, 2025. Fricke succeeds Dr. Volker Rehrmann, who earlier this year announced his retirement from Tomra after over two decades with the business. Katrin Fricke brings a wealth

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Carbios signs its first biorecycled PET sales contracts with two global cosmetics leaders

Carbios has signed its first multi-year offtake contracts with L’Oréal and L’Occitane en Provence for biorecycled rPET from its future commercial plant in Longlaville, France. The agreements mark a step in the company’s efforts to scale enzymatic recycling technology, which aims to provide an alternative method for producing recycled PET suitable

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Emirates Biotech and Sulzer advance strategic partnership with the equipment supply contract for the world’s largest bioplastics facility

Emirates Biotech has recently signed a supply contract with Sulzer to provide the proprietary equipment that will serve as the technological core of the world-scale Polylactic Acid (PLA) production facility being built by Emirates Biotech. This follows a licensing agreement signed in December 2024. This strategic milestone confirms Emirates Biotech’s transition

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Plastics Recyclers Europe (PRE) releases position paper outlining six strategic areas for immediate action to prevent collapse of the European plastics recycling industry

European recyclers are facing a severe and deepening recession, with businesses being increasingly forced to shut down. This trend threatens to accelerate Europe’s deindustrialisation and undermines the EU’s environmental and circular economy goals. In response Plastics Recyclers Europe (PRE) has released a position paper outlining six strategic areas for immediate action

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Royce Universal expands rPET operations in Thailand

Thai plastic product manufacturer Royce Universal Co., Ltd. has the capacity to recycle around 15,000 t/a of post-consumer PET, turning it into food-contact material for packaging applications. In addition to rPET sheet produced from PET bottle flakes, Royce offers certified high-quality food-grade recycled PET pellets under the brand name “PetaRoyce”. The

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Chemco and Kandoi form joint venture to launch rPET-based FIBC bag manufacturing facilities in Gujarat

In a landmark collaboration aimed at redefining sustainable packaging in India, Chemco Group, one of the country’s largest PET converters, and Kandoi Group of Industries, a leader in technical textiles, have announced a strategic joint venture to build two fully integrated greenfield manufacturing facilities in Vapi and Dahej, Gujarat. With a

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Nordson BKG and FIMIC announce enhanced partnership

Nordson BKG GmbH, part of Nordson Corporation’s Polymer Processing Systems (PPS) division, specialist in melt delivery, and pelletising solutions, and FIMIC Srl., a well-known provider of innovative melt filtration technology, announced a deepened strategic partnership, building on FIMIC’s appointment as the exclusive agent for Nordson BKG products in Italy announced in

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DePoly to launch 500 t/a showcase plant

DePoly, a leading sustainable PET-to-raw-material recycling company, announced the upcoming launch of a 500 t/a showcase plant in Monthey, Switzerland this summer, representing a critical step in the company’s journey from laboratory breakthrough to industrial-scale implementation. The facility will demonstrate DePoly’s proprietary process that converts PET and polyester waste into virgin-quality

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