5:22 min Recycling processes

Market perceptions of RPET do not reflect the true challenges of PET recycling says APPE

  The lack of high quality food-grade rPET material is hampering the aspirations of brand owners and fillers to increase the amount of rPET used in their packaging portfolio, according to APPE, the Packaging Division of LSB. This challenging message was delivered to ...
1:49 min Recycling processes

EU subsidies for Krones’ PET recycling process

Under the aegis of the EU’s programme for competitiveness and innovation, the ...
1:27 min Recycling processes

Gneuss Kunststofftechnik is the first company to receive a NOL solely for an extrusion process

Last year, Gneuss Kunststofftechnik GmbH already received a Letter of Non Objection ...
2:14 min Recycling processes

APPE steps up recycled output to meet market demand

  APPE (formerly known as Artenius PET Packaging Europe and a division of ...
6:10 min Recycling processes

STARLINGER recycling technology at the K 2010

recycling technology, a division of Starlinger & Co GmbH, Vienna, will present a ...
3:22 min Recycling processes

SABIC Innovative Plastics scores big with 2009 Responsible Care® Award win for eco-optimized iQ* resin

  SABIC Innovative Plastics’ environmentally progressive iQ* resin ...
3:31 min Recycling processes

Upgrading recycled PET

Adjustments madeIn contrast to the established SSP process for PET pellets, a number ...
4:28 min Recycling processes

NAPCOR refutes claims that PLA can be recycled with PET

The National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR) today refuted the premise that polylactic acid (PLA) containers can be successfully mixed in to the existing stream of recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET) containers, citing concerns over cost of separation; ...
1:55 min Recycling processes

petcore approves the use of up to 10% of Futura’s BarPET/BeerPET pet/ptn alloy based on bottles in a recycle stream for bottle to bottle applications

Futura is a producer of BarPET/BeerPET, a PET/PTN Alloy containing 10% PTN1.BarPET/BeerPET has been developed to enhance thermal stability and further improve gas, UV and water vapour barrier properties of PET packaging. The BarPET/BeerPET solution is targeted mainly at products ...