2019 has been a year of successes within the recycled PET (RPET) industry.The continued war against plastics and heightened awareness of plastic pollution has driven an unprecedented level of interest in RPET. As such, there has been a significant momentum behind collection and ...

Changing lifestyles and new consumer generations revolutionize the packaging market. “The uninterrupted trend towards on-the-go products, for example, is boosting the demand for resealable packaging, especially in the food sector,” explains Oliver Kutsch, CEO of the market research ...

Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL), a global chemical manufacturer, has acquired Green Fiber International Inc. (GFI), a recycling company in Fontana, California, USA. The facility produces Recycled Polyethylene Terephthalate (rPET) Flakes. The acquisition has a combined ...

Note: Petcycle GmbH is celebrating its 20th anniversary. In 1999, the company ...

Products made from plastic are in Europe currently in the spotlight of the public’s attention. Especially the thoughtless and excessive use of single-use bags has received a lot of criticism. The European Union stipulates to further restrict the use of plastic carrier bags until ...

On 22 November 2019, Reloop Platform and the European Federation of Bottled Waters (EFBW) jointly organized the first Conference on Best-in-Class Deposit Return Systems for Single-use Beverage Packaging.

New study illuminates consumer confusion about recycling and sentiment toward ...

A ground-breaking carbonated soft drink which is organic and vegan was launched in ...

The Plastics Recycling Show Europe (PRSE), the pan-European exhibition and conference dedicated to plastics recycling, returns to the RAI Amsterdam, The Netherlands on 25-26 March 2020, as it celebrates a fourth consecutive year of growth.

High costs and unfavourable product mix impact profitability. EBT in the first nine months was €61.4 million (previous year: €139.4 million). The EBT margin decreased from 5.2% to 2.1%. Revenue for the first three quarters, at €2,889.7 million, is 7.3% higher than in the previous ...