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Alpla Group, a global specialist for packaging solutions and recycling, continues to pursue a strategy of expanding its recycling activities worldwide. The family-owned enterprise from Austria is now building a plant in Mexico for recycling HDPE. It is planned to produce 15,000 tonnes of post-consumer recycled material each year. Alpla has
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Amut has been awarded a new tender project by a joint venture between two world leader groups, specialising in raw materials production and rigid packaging solutions, engaged in the circular economy, in the Far East and worldwide. The Italian Group will contribute as a turn-key supplier to the most important project
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Loop Industries, a leading company in sustainable plastics technology, and Suez, a world leader in environmental services, announce plans to build the first Infinite Loop recycling facility in Europe. Based on enhanced recycling, the partnership will combine the resource management expertise of Suez and Loop’s unique technology for the production of
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OneCircle, the producer of KeyKeg and UniKeg, made some major steps towards the circular economy with the production of the first batch of OnePET to be used in their kegs and increasing the recycled material content to approximately 45%. OneCircle used the situation during Covid-19 to put its circularity program at
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With the “3 Circles” bottle, all of the individual elements and the entire lifecycle were designed to be sustainable. It is made 100% out of recycled PET and it can be completely recycled again after use. Instead of having a label which is normally unable to be recycled, the bottle was
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After Marius Mersinger from the Faculty of Architecture at the German Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences (Frankfurt UAS) won second prize in the AppliedIdea competition and many other prizes with his project “zeltHAUS”, he is now continuing on the road to success with a new team: Together with Fabian Hegner and
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On behalf of PET-Recycling Schweiz, Swiss Post is now collecting PET beverage bottles from all over Switzerland in special collection bags from home. The service was successfully tested regionally in 2019 and will now be extended to the whole of Switzerland. The new service is aimed at private households and was
Read moreAmcor announced it has joined the U.S. Plastics Pact, a collaborative, solutions-driven initiative to create a path forward to a circular economy for plastics in the United States by 2025. The U.S. Plastics Pact is focused on four ambitious goals intended to drive significant systems change by unifying diverse cross-sector approaches,
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Together with traditional Martens Brewery in Belgium the turnkey supplier KHS has made the portfolio for a German food store chain more sustainable. Karlskrone beer is now to be sold as a film-free KHS Nature MultiPack of six – in redesigned 0.5-liter PET bottles made entirely of recyclate. As part of
Read moreKlöckner Pentaplast (kp), a global leader in recycled content products and high-barrier protective packaging, announces its commitment to expand its post-consumer recycled PET extrusion capacity by 17,500 metric tonnes, which significantly increases it’s capacity for thermoformed recyclable protein trays in North America. The multimillion-dollar capacity expansion will be located among the
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The Road Show reaches South Korea! In this PETcast we visit Ted Park, Regional Director Asia at Tomra nearby Seoul. Global recycling equipment manufacturer Tomra runs a local office in South Korea since 2006. Along with a recycling test centre, the company has managed to win over customers and improved its
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