0:59 min Recycled plastics, Additives
Additives

Nexam in new success in Reactive recycling for PET

Nasdaq First North-listed Nexam Chemical – which invents, develops, produces and sells additives to the plastics industry worldwide – achieves new success in projects with additives for recycled PET. Nexam has received a first production order worth SEK 0.5 million for thermoformed ...
1:31 min Chemical recycling
Grant

Avantium awarded €1.5 million EU grant to demonstrate the electrochemical conversion of CO2 into sustainable plastic materials

Avantium announces that it has been awarded a €1.5 million grant by the EU Horizon Europe programme for its participation in the research and development programme HICCUPS1. This programme aims to demonstrate the utilisation of CO2 as a feedstock for the production of polyesters. The ...
2:11 min Sorting and collection, PET films, trays, cups
Recycling

PET tray recycling: Henkel is using 100 % PCR for blister packs

In a pilot project, Henkel is now using 100 % PCR from the ''Gelber Sack'' (''yellow ...
1:13 min Recycled plastics
PET recycling

Biffa diverts 1,600 tonnes of waste plastic back into the circular economy, since opening PET Recovery Plant in Washington last year

The Group has pioneered new technology that targets, then captures, tiny flakes of recyclable material from contaminated waste.
2:14 min Chemical recycling
PET recycling

Eastman secures significant feedstock agreements for molecular recycling facility in France

Eastman announced it has secured a significant amount of feedstock needed for its planned molecular recycling facility in Port Jerome sur Seine, Normandy, France. With an investment of $1 billion, the planned facility will become the world’s largest material-to-material molecular ...
1:70 min Facts & Figures, America, rPET & PET Flakes
Expansion

Verdeco: New innovation center of excellence & rPET manufacturing facility

Verdeco, specializing in customized rPET solutions, announced they will be opening the doors of their brand-new innovation center and manufacturing facility in Greenville, South Carolina in June 2023. This milestone is a major move for Verdeco following their 2020 ...
2:59 min Sorting and collection, PET films, trays, cups
Collaboration

BASF/KRONES/SÜDPACK/TOMRA - Collaboration project shows: multi-layer packaging can be separated and recycled on an industrial scale

Collaboration project gives proof of concept for closed recycling loop for ...
3:20 min America, Sorting and collection
Initiative

Public-private partnership with Kansas City, Missouri will improve recycling collection citywide

The City of Kansas City, Missouri begins delivery of 162,000 recycling carts that ...
1:41 min Digitization, Sorting and collection
Digital watermark technology

Industrial validation of the HolyGrail 2.0 technology marks new milestone towards advanced sortation

The Digital Watermarks Initiative HolyGrail 2.0 has reached a new milestone with the successful validation of the digital watermark technology’s advanced sortation capability in an industrial environment, delivering positive results particularly in relation to the separation of food ...
2:26 min Facts & Figures, PET recycling systems
Retaining innovation leadership, continuing on course of growth

EREMA Group ends financial year with significant increase in turnover

Around EUR 355 million in overall turnover, 350 extruders delivered creating an ...