1:14 min Caps & Closure Technology, Caps & Closures
Sustainable Caps

Guala Closures signs exclusive agreement with Oceanworks to develop closures made with plastic recovered from the oceans

Guala Closures Group, the global producer of nonrefillable and aluminium beverage ...
1:40 min Materials, Processing & Handling, Biobased Material
Funding

Avantium awarded €5.4 million grant from Netherlands Enterprise Agency for expansion of FDCA pilot plant

Avantium N.V announces that the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO - Rijksdienst voor Ondernemend Nederland) has awarded the company a €5.4 million grant as part of the Demonstration Energy and Climate Innovation (DEI+) scheme, to be paid out in 16 tranches over a period of 4 years. ...
1:30 min PET films, trays, cups, Sheets & Films
PET film

Toray to launch eco-friendly EcouseⓇ PET films representing step toward to sustainable economy

Toray Industries, Inc. announced that it has developed Ecouse® (pronounced Eco-Use) ...
4:25 min Recycling & Compounding, Recycling processes
Recycling

Loop Industries announces independent review confirming effectiveness of patented technology

Independent testing by respected third-party research center confirms that Loop’s Gen II depolymerization technology is effective at producing pure monomers - Loop Industries (“Loop” or “the Company”), an innovator in sustainable plastics technology, released the report of an ...
1:32 min Global themes, Sustainability & Circular Economy, Recycling & Compounding, …
Sorting

Milliken to join the Digital Watermark Project, HolyGrail 2.0, a cutting-edge European initiative to drive a truly circular economy

Milliken & Company’s Chemical Division has joined the Digital Watermarks ...
2:58 min Markets and Management, Management, Recycling & Compounding, …
Growth through increasing recycling rates

Demand for EREMA PET recycling technologies continues to grow

The recycling of PET bottles has gained worldwide acceptance over the past 20 years ...
1:39 min Markets and Management, Management, Recycling & Compounding, …
New production site

Starlinger doubles production capacity for plastics recycling systems

Starlinger has been producing plastics recycling systems from the recoSTAR PET ...
2:11 min Recycling & Compounding, PET recycling systems
Melt Filtration Technology

Gneuss Kunststofftechnik: Reliable, trouble-free melt filtration as a decisive factor for the economical use of reclaim in plastics processing

If inhouse waste and heavily contaminated post-consumer waste are added to the ...
1:20 min Materials, Processing & Handling, Biobased Material
Plant-based Plastic Materials

Plant-based and recyclable plastic bottles now enabled with VTT’s new FDCA technology using citrus peel as raw material

The shift from fossil-based to renewable bio-plastics requires new efficient ...
1:52 min Caps & Closure Technology
Caps & Preforms

15 December 2020: SACMI webinar on lightweight solutions in the cap-preform-production - live streams for all time zones, 7 languages

Live from the SACMI parent company, this webinar will showcase the latest ...