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Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL) announced the official opening of its PETValue bottle-to-bottle recycling plant in the Philippines, in partnership with Coca-Cola Beverages Philippines – the bottling arm of Coca-Cola in the country. The plant is IVL’s latest recycled PET facility as the global integrated petrochemicals company builds on its
Read moreGneuss and Colines have worked together to offer manufacturers of stretch film the possibility of using recycled polymer. Colines offers a special, proven cast & blown film extrusion process for handling recycled material, with the help of the Gneuss RSFgenius Melt Filtration System from Gneuss. Colines has already proven this process
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Ganesha Ecopet Private Limited, a subsidiary of Indian PET recycling pioneer Ganesha Ecosphere Ltd., has recently opened its new Warangal facility under the brand name Go Rewise where it produces rPET for filament yarns and fibres, as well as for food-grade packaging. The company has installed two Starlinger PET recycling lines
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The global packaging solutions company Sidel is now a member of R-Cycle, a community designing digital ‘product passports’ to accelerate the recycling of plastic packaging around the world. Using an open tracing standard, R-Cycle allows gathering of information about the recycling-related properties of plastic packaging. These details, stored on a common
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Together with customers, business partners, employees and companions from all over the world, Next Generation Recyclingmaschinen GmbH celebrated its 25th anniversary at the newly built plant in Feldkirchen/Donau on September 16. Since its beginnings in 1996, NGR has been one of the technological pioneers in the field of sustainable plastics recycling.
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Berry Global Group, Inc. is collaborating with snack and treats leader Mars, Incorporated to launch its popular pantry-sized treats in polyethylene terephthalate (PET) jars that have been optimised to be lighter weight and include 15% post-consumer resin (PCR). With the shared mission of creating more sustainable packaging solutions, Berry and Mars
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Business is booming for waste sorting systems Around 160 km to the northeast of Barcelona is the small Catalonian town of Roses. Here in 2004, Norwegian recycling equipment provider Tomra installed a local branch when it took over the former local distributor. This was in response to a recycling situation that was
Read moreInterzero and Eastman (NYSE: EMN) announced a long-term supply agreement for Eastman’s previously announced molecular recycling facility in Normandy, France. Interzero will provide up to 20,000 metric tonnes per year of hard-to-recycle PET household packaging waste that would otherwise be incinerated. Interzero Plastics Recycling, as part of Interzero, is an innovation
Read moreUK Research & Innovation’s Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging (SSPP) Challenge has launched a new £2.5 million Future Plastic Packaging Solutions Round 2 competition for research and innovation projects seeking grant funding from £30,000 to £250,000. From new recycling processes to reuse and refill solutions and novel polymers, the £60 million SSPP
Read moreKoch Technology Solutions (KTS), a Koch Engineered Solutions company, and Ioniqa Technologies B.V. (Ioniqa) announced a partnership to scale up and commercialise Ioniqa’s PET recycle technology in the plastics industry. As part of this collaboration, KTS has committed to invest up to €30M in Ioniqa. Ioniqa has developed a process that
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Following 18 months of construction and installation, the Alpla Group and PTT Global Chemical are opening the state-of-the-art Envicco recycling plant in Thailand. With an annual production capacity of 30,000 tonnes of recycled PET and 15,000 tonnes of recycled HDPE, it is one of the largest recycling plants for these plastics
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