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Avantium N.V., a leading company in renewable and circular polymer materials, has signed a joint development agreement with Amcor Rigid Packaging USA, LLC known for responsible packaging solutions. This partnership aims to explore the use of Avantium’s plant-based polymer PEF – branded as Releaf – in rigid containers for various products,
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MacroCycle Technologies, a developer of a novel PET & polyester textile waste upcycling technology, announced the close of a $6.5M seed financing round. The round was led by Clean Energy Ventures and Volta Circle, with participation from KDT Ventures and Neotribe Ventures. MacroCycle will use the funding to grow its operations
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Circularix, a leading producer of food-grade recycled PET (rPET), announced its second production facility, located in Ocala, Florida, is set to begin operations by the end of Q1 2025, marking a significant milestone in the company’s expansion plans. The new Florida location mirrors Circularix’s existing Pennsylvania facility, which has been operational
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The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and The Coca-Cola Foundation (TCCF) have partnered to help address the growing challenge of plastic waste management in Asia, a region that is home to significant environmental opportunities and challenges. Rapid urbanisation, increasing demand for single-use plastics, and gaps in waste management infrastructure have contributed
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DePoly, a Swiss award-winning CleanTech company which specialises in advanced recycling of PET/polyester plastics, announced their collaboration with PTI (Plastic Technologies Inc) a leader in sustainable plastic packaging design and development, to create a closed loop recycled PET bottle. Using a mixed stream of feedstock, ranging from PET plastic packaging, polyester
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Next Generation Recyclingmaschinen GmbH (NGR) is proud to announce a significant achievement: the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has issued a positive Scientific Opinion for NGR´s Liquid State Polycondensation (LSP)- Process for advanced PET Recycling. LSP becomes the first recycling process to complete evaluation under the updated regulation (EU) 2022/1616. The
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PET to PET Recycling Österreich GmbH, based in Müllendorf, Burgenland, Austria, takes stock for the year 2024: 31,354 tonnes of PET material – the equivalent of 1.25 billion PET beverage bottles – were successfully recycled in Austria. This represents a slight decrease of -2.8% compared to the previous year (2023: 32,283
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Mid of October 2024 Alpha Ecoplast Pvt. Ltd., a member of Alpha Group, commissioned a Starlinger RecoStar PET 215 HC iV+ PET bottle-to-bottle recycling system in their new facility near the city of Kosamba, Gujarat State, India. The RecoStar PET 215 HC iV+ features Starlinger’s biggest single extruder size, reaching an
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Packaging and recycling specialist increases turnover to 4.9 billion euros – Alpla continued its growth trajectory in 2024 with new products, plants, business areas, acquisitions and a focus on training skilled workers. The international packaging and recycling specialist increased its turnover from 4.7 to 4.9 billion euros and grew its workforce
Read moreBASF has teamed up with Endress+Hauser and TechnoCompound as well as the Universities of Bayreuth and Jena to study how the mechanical recycling of plastics can be improved. With funding from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the SpecReK project aims to reliably and precisely identify the composition
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SyntheticGestalt KK, Asahi Quality and Innovations, Ltd., a research subsidiary of Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd., and Institute of Science Tokyo have commenced research on an AI-powered PET bottle recycling technology called “Bio-Recycling” which was starting in the second half of 2024. This project aims to establish new standards for PET bottle
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