Three years have passed since the last K, the world’s premier fair for the plastics and rubber industry, and everything has changed. Apart from the media attacks on plastic products, the industry also has other challenges to overcome, such as China’s import ban on plastic waste and constantly…

TOMRA Collection Solutions has installed the largest, automated bottle depot counting and sorting system in Canada. The record-breaking equipment has a footprint of nearly 300 m2 and can process over 35 million beverage containers per year.

CMG the granulator and shredder manufacturer presents its U&G disposable blades, an innovative solution of great interest for plastics recyclers. The U&G blades, made of special steel, are very light, have a longer life compared to traditional blades and can be disassembled and replaced easily and…

Austrian Starlinger recycling technology will deliver PET recycling lines with a total installed capacity of 5.4 tons/hour for CarbonLITE’s new site in Pennsylvania at the end of the year. CarbonLITE is a major producer of food-grade rPET who already operates Starlinger recycling lines at its…

A reverse vending machine designed to accept plastic bottles and aluminium cans has been unveiled in King’s Cross, Central London, by the UK’s leading recycling group Veolia and restaurant chain LEON.

Nordson’s BKG® FlexDisc provides producers of critical films and PET recyclers with far more filtration area than standard screens, without increase in machine size.

With unprecedented filtration fineness of 60 µm, Ettlinger’s ECO melt filters will in the future make it easier to treat recycled material for the film, packaging tape and fiber industry and help plastics recyclers remove challenging contaminants like paints, silicones, barrier materials,…

KP Linpac orders third Infrared Rotary Drum of KREYENBORG to expand its production capacities for thermoformed PET packaging solutions.

Italian company FIMIC, in partnership with Spartanburg, South Carolina based Zimmer America Recycling Solutions (a div. of ZARS-USA, LLC), has recently installed a new RAS500 model melt filter to process post-consumer polypropylene at Aaron Industries in Leominster Massachusetts.

Shredded and washed flakes are created – along with fines as the second fraction – when non-returnable PET bottles are recycled. These fines occur in large quantities and are hence a significant and valuable part of the PET cycle. However, as an input material they are difficult to handle on account…

"Start me up" is the slogan for visitors to the NPE 2018 show from 7 to 11 May in Orlando when they have the opportunity to put the material all-rounder ISEC evo 102 to the test in a live quality check. The system will be processing LLDPE film, PE hollow bodies and PE lumps to make high-grade…