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Herbold Meckesheim is satisfied with its results after IFAT 2022 in Munich. Despite the current economic uncertainties, the special machine builder has recorded a constant number of incoming orders. After many negotiations, the projects are now seen to get reality – almost 60 percent of these projects are located outside Germany.
Read moreAccording to the regional newspaper RNZ, the Coperion Group, headquartered in Stuttgart, is taking over the special machinery manufacturer Herbold Meckesheim. The name and brand of Herbold Meckesheim, as well as the company’s location, will be retained after the takeover, Herbold announced on Monday, 4th of July 2022. A purchase price
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RecyClass extends its scope with the first European-wide audit scheme for plastic recyclers based on EN 15343 and fullfilling the requirements for conformity assessment described in ISO 17065. This certification will support the industry in complying with upcoming market and legal requirements in a harmonised, transparent and reliable manner. “The new
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Romania is on a rapidly approaching deadline to launch its deposit return system in October 2022 (in accordance with Government Decision 1074/2021), to align with the targets of the European Union’s Single-Use Plastics Directive and to tackle beverage container pollution. In Europe alone, more than 25 million tons of plastic waste are
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The UK is not known as a hub of production of PET bottle tool manufacturing but if the UK editor as revealed nothing else, it is that it has a cluster of interesting and enterprising bottle producers. We have met a few, and expect to visit more. And in order to
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HPC Industries LLC and Macquarie Group’s Commodities and Global Markets group (Macquarie) have formed a joint venture to produce rPET. Under the name Circularix, the venture’s plans include building and operating five recycling facilities across the U.S. with a total annual production capacity of more than 275 million pounds of rPET resin.
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Repetco was awarded with the prize ‘SME for innovation and sustainability’, in the second edition of the Retina ECO Awards, which are in collaboration with Capgemini. This award has recognised the technology developed by the company for a problem that, until now, remained unsolved: the recycling of multilayer PET plastic, very
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According to figures released at the PET Recycling Company’s (PETCO) annual general meeting in June, 2.1 billion PET bottles were diverted from landfill last year thanks to the various recycling efforts in which it was involved. On the back of waste management experts warning that parts of South Africa could soon
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Gneuss, a family-owned company based in Bad Oeynhausen, Germany, has been shortlisted for the Plastics Recycling Awards 2022 in the category of Recycling Machinery Innovation with its unique MRSjump extrusion technology. The MRSjump is a new extruder which uses the operating principle of the Gneuss MRS technology however with a vastly
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The two-day Plastics Recycling Show Europe exhibition and conference taking place at the RAI Amsterdam opens to visitors at 9.30 am on June 22. This year’s event is set to be the biggest ever with over 200 exhibitors and more than 40 expert speakers. Winners of the Plastics Recycling Awards Europe
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Stadler is introducing a new Stadler PX acceleration conveyor. It is intended to meet the demand for higher throughput in sensor-based automatic sorting, which can operate at higher working speeds. To achieve the desired result, Stadler has integrated features of its popular BB and DB conveyors, and has taken the opportunity
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