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After our successful Drinktec tour, the PETplanet team is going to the Middle East in the last quarter of 2023! In a spectacular project taking us well into 2024, we will be travelling in a wide variety of ways to various countries and regions of the Middle East with different mobile
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Authorities at one of South Africa’s premier tourist destinations, the Kruger National Park, are hopeful that a recycling pilot project will divert tonnes of waste destined for landfill and instead recycle it and incorporate it into the country’s circular economy. The pilot project, which is a collaborative effort between SANParks and
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STADLER Anlagenbau GmbH, the globally active German company specialising in the planning, production, and assembly of turnkey sorting plants, has completed the comprehensive modernisation of the BZB (Bizkaiko Zabor Berziklategia) light packaging sorting plant in Amorebieta-Extano, Bizkaia, Spain. The upgraded facility was officially inaugurated on January 27, 2026, with representatives from
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A leading provider of innovative closure solutions for beverage packaging and a developer of high-per-formance bio-based materials are combining their expertise: corvaglia and FluidSolids will jointly support their customers in achieving their sustainability goals. Quality, reliability, innovation, and sustainability are the core values shared by the two Swiss companies, corvaglia and
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Avantium N.V. provided an update on the start-up of its FDCA Flagship Plant in Delfzijl, the Netherlands. The company now expects to complete start-up by mid-2026 and to commence sales of product under its existing offtake agreements in the second half of 2026. This updated timeline is a result of construction-related
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Japanese company Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. will begin a nationwide rollout of PET bottle containers made from 100% recycled PET resin from late January this year. As a result, more than 90% (by number of bottles) of the company’s PET bottle beverage products will use containers made entirely from recycled PET
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After a slight decline in production volume in 2024, PET to PET Recycling Österreich GmbH, based in Müllendorf in Burgenland, Austria, can look back on a successful financial year in 2025: 33,675 tonnes of PET material – equivalent to 1.34 billion PET beverage bottles – were successfully kept in the bottle-to-bottle
Read moreIndorama Ventures Public Company Limited has announced the divestment of its indirect subsidiary UCY Polymers CZ s.r.o. in the Czech Republic, following a resolution by the management board of Indorama Netherlands B.V., an indirect subsidiary of the group. According to the company, the transaction involves the sale of Indorama Netherlands B.V.’s
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TOMRA Sorting GmbH, the German legal entity and headquarters of TOMRA Recycling, has been awarded the prestigious Platinum medal from EcoVadis, one of the world’s most trusted and widely used platforms for assessing corporate sustainability performance. With an overall score of 87 out of 100 points, TOMRA Recycling is in the top
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Artificial intelligence will take centre stage at Plastics Recycling Show Europe 2026 at the dedicated AI Innovation Hub, at RAI Amsterdam on 5–6 May 2026. The Hub will showcase the latest AI-driven innovations transforming plastics recycling, with live demonstrations across the value chain – from material identification to high-speed robotic sorting.
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Following the recent organisational alignment in sales, Otto Hofstetter AG and Otto Systems are now combining their After Sales organisations in the PET sector. This step is claimed to represent a logical continuation of the integrated PET approach and creates consistent structures for customers from initial contact through to service support.
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German mineral water producer Gerolsteiner will introduce a further developed 1-litre PET returnable bottle for mineral water from mid-January 2026. The new model is intended to gradually replace the previous version. According to the company, the new 1-litre PET returnable bottle is more stable than its predecessor and can therefore be
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