In preform manufacturing, power supply outages reduce system availability levels and have a negative impact on unit costs. In the form of its new CPP option, for challenging industrial situations Netstal is offering a practical solution for its PET-LINE that can be amortized within a very short period and reliably ensures maximum system availability. CPP stands for 'Controlled Production shutdown during a Power outage'.

Stefan Kleinfeld
Application & Product Manager
Netstal-Maschinen AG

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Plastics packaging is at a critical point in its history. Never before has there been so much talk about reducing or even ending the use of plastics for packaging foods and drinks. Legislation is also changing the landscape. The European Commission says its first-ever European Strategy for Plastics in a Circular Economy, adopted at the beginning of this year, will transform the way plastic products are designed, used, produced and recycled in the EU.

Today, though, too much of the circular economy is theory. Many of its concepts are largely untried. Only by putting them into practice will we find out how realistic they are and how they can be improved for real-life situations.

With XTREME ReNEW, SIPA changes the outline of prefom production in this challenging landscape. XTREME ReNEW is the world's first integrated system for the production of preforms containing 100% of recycled PET, but with comparable quality of preforms made from virgin PET. XTREME ReNEW was developed in collaboration with EREMA, the Austrian company specialized in plastics recycling technologies.

SIPA will outline the business case associated to the first Xtreme ReNEW running in a production environment, covering preform quality data from continuous production along with financial benefits generated by the system.

Stefano Baldassar
Global Sales Director, Preform Systems and Tooling
Sipa

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Petroleum is a finite, non-renewable resource that is growing in demand. At the same time, there is a growing understanding that greenhouse gas emissions and environmental output need to be limited. Because of this, brand owners are driving an increasing demand of renewable materials and a circular economy. The shift from fossil-based to renewable materials is especially relevant in the plastics industry, with PET being one of the most widely used plastics in the world.

PET and PEF consist for a large part out of monoethylene glycol (MEG), a monomer that currently is primarily produced through a petrochemical process.

Avantium has identified a process of making a drop-in MEG from glucose in a single-step, high atom efficiency process which is competitive with petroleum based MEG. The current commercial process of producing MEG from glucose (C6H12O6) takes four intermediate steps, resulting in a maximum theoretical yield of 67%. Therefore, these production processes for bio-based MEG are too expensive, hampering its widespread use when compared to petrochemical alternatives. Avantium identified a selective catalyst to split the C6 in glucose in three C2 fragments through a single-step process, in which a theoretical yield of 100% is possible, and >70% can practically be achieved.)

Taking into account the audience of the PETnology Europe 2018, the presentation will be focused on a description of the Mekong program, including a view on MEG market dynamics, the need for sustainable and bio-based solutions in the packaging materials space, an overview of Avantium’s bio-based MEG process compared to incumbent processes, and the expected steps to commercialization.

Eelco Blum
Vice President of Business Development Renewable Chemistries
Avantium

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