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By 2050 at the latest, all tyres produced by tyre manufacturer Continental are to be made of sustainable materials. There is still a long way to go until then, says the companny. But step by step, it is already becoming apparent which raw materials will find their way into tire construction
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Despite numerous challenges, PET to PET Recycling Österreich GmbH in Müllendorf recorded a new recycling record for 2022: 32,900 t of PET material from around 1.3 billion bottles were successfully kept in the bottle-to-bottle cycle. This corresponds to a 20% increase in the amount processed compared to the previous year (2021:
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Amut announced the successful upgrade of Mohawk Industries’ PET washing plant in Summerville, Georgia USA in September 2022. Mohawk Industries is an American flooring manufacturer. Anthony Georges, President of Amut North America Inc. stated, Amut had done a trial of Mohawk’s dirty flakes a few years ago in the patented Amut
Read moreCircularix, a producer of food-grade post-consumer rPET, has begun production at its Pennsylvania plant – the first of five U.S. recycling facilities it plans to take operational. This inaugural plant, in Hatfield, PA, will contribute to a total production capacity across the five facilities of 275 million pounds of rPET pellets per
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Akmert İplik San. ve Tic. A.Ş. is currently installing a Starlinger bottle-to-bottle recycling line for its new “GSR Granules” brand at the company’s rPET manufacturing facility in Kocaeli’s Gebze district near Istanbul. The recoSTAR PET 165 HC iV+ has an output of up to 1,800 kg of bottle-grade rPET pellets per
Read moreCCEP Ventures (CCEPV) announced two new partnerships with European research groups at Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) in Tarragona, Spain and the University of Twente (UT) in the Netherlands, to accelerate their research into carbon capture technology. Through these R&D projects, CCEPV will explore how captured CO₂ can be turned into
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Novapet is closing the loop into the PET value chain, with its REnovaPET division, with a sustainable project based on a rPET production plant based in Barbastro (Huesca), where Novapet has its resins and preforms production facilities. This project, which started its construction in the summer 2022, is reaching its final
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Bob Schiavone from R&D/Leverage, an Adler Co. says that the industry has to raise its game to educate the public and to ensure sufficient and genuine recycling capacity and infrastructure. Bob Schiavone, Global Marketing Communications Director of R&D/Leverage, addressed the issues of public perception of the plastics industry and recycling at
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Just in mid-January, US colours and functional additives manufacturer Penn Color from Hatfield, Pennsylvania, inaugurated its brand new Technology Center in Singapore to serve customers throughout the Asia-Pacific region. In an interview, company president and CEO Mr Kevin Putman Jr explained what the location is all about and what benefits will
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Recycling plastic packaging Our last visit in Spain is already close to the French border. In the north-east, 20 km from the Atlantic coast, a good acquaintance, Mikel Urain, an expert in the PET industry, welcomes us to his company EkoRec. We are curious about his new company and torture the Editourmobile
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Tomra Recycling Sorting’s sensor-based sorting technology is helping to recover high-quality, high-purity value recyclates at Farz, the first automated MRF in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The 1,200 tons per day plant has two separate lines – one for municipal solid waste (MSW) and the other for commercial and industrial (C&I)
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