Europe is falling behind on its race to meet the European Union (EU) target of 90 per cent collection of plastic bottles by 2030 according to new research by ICIS. Results of the ICIS survey of the European RPET (recycled polyethylene terephthalate) industry in 2019 show that ...

Due to corona, revenue in the third quarter of 2020 fell 25.0% year-on-year to €750.4 million. Revenue from January to September was down 15.3% to €2,449.0 million (previous year: €2,889.7 million). Order intake picked up in third quarter of 2020. At €843.6 million, the contract ...

Order intake well above previous year's level Market share increases due to large volume of multiple machine orders Breakthrough for all-electric machines in the IntElect series

30 years ago, on 28 September 1990, a new enterprise was founded in Bonn: “Der Grüne ...

It was 40 years ago when Sidel launched its first commercial blower to produce PET ...

Lt. Gov. Kathleen C. Hochul along with other officials from New York State, Monroe County and local jurisdictions joined ProAmpac CEO, Greg Tucker, to address the start of construction of the company’s Collaboration & Innovation Center. The multi-million-dollar investment will ...

OECD countries have agreed to update rules on the export of hazardous plastic waste for recycling in line with international changes so that advance consent from destination countries will be required ahead of shipping. However, they did not reach consensus on updated arrangements ...

In the framework of its 3rd survey on the use of recycled plastic materials (rPM) by plastics converters in Europe, EuPC publishes a follow-up questionnaire on the effects of COVID-19. This follow-up questionnaire is designed to collect first-hand information on the effect that the ...

As highlighted in RECOUP’s update of its UK Household Plastic Packaging Sorting and Reprocessing Infrastructure Report 2020 and Covid-19 Impact Report, previous challenges relating to capacity, investment and legislative changes are to be impacted further due to the global pandemic. ...

Compared with the first half of 2019, injection moulding machine manufacturer Sumitomo (SHI) Demag is ending the first half of 2020 with a healthy order book. During the first six months, the value of incoming orders for machines produced in Germany rose by almost 25 percent.