0:59 min Strategies & Market Analysis, Sustainability & Circular Economy, Extrusion lines, …
rPET

Klöckner Pentaplast commits to rPET/PET capacity expansion for the sustainable healthcare and food packaging market in North America

Klöckner Pentaplast (kp), a global leader in recycled content products and high-barrier protective packaging, has announced its intention to expand its post-consumer recycled content (PCR) PET capacity in North America with a significant investment to further grow its sustainable ...
1:34 min Sustainability & Circular Economy
Circular Packaging

Brightlands Materials Center leading research on breakthrough in fully recyclable pouches for soups and sauces

In Geleen, a consortium of companies and knowledge institutes is focusing on the ...
1:47 min Sustainability & Circular Economy
Study

Plastics Recyclers Europe: PET packaging moving steadily towards circularity

Main developments for advancing PET recycling identified in a new study (1) New data (2) for collection, recycling capacity and production for 2020 show increases in all measured factors, indicating a steady move towards circularity of the PET industry in Europe. Major growth is ...
1:10 min Sustainability & Circular Economy, PET recycling systems
Growth

Plastipak expands PET recycling capacity in Luxembourg

Plastipak, a global leader in the design, manufacture and recycling of plastic containers has completed a major investment to significantly expand its PET recycling capacity at its manufacturing site in Bascharage, Luxembourg.
2:55 min Sustainability & Circular Economy
Joint venture

ALPLA: First stone laid for PET recycling plant in the south-east of Mexico

With the aim of boosting the circular economy in the states of south-east Mexico, a ...
0:55 min Sustainability & Circular Economy
Switch

SÜDPACK is counting on green electricity

Within the framework of its sustainability strategy, the SÜDPACK Group has switched entirely to green electricity supply for its key production, administration and logistics sites. At the site in Erolzheim, a new photovoltaic system went into operation in 2021. All of the other ...
2:31 min Sustainability & Circular Economy, Caps & Closures
New cap

SABIC, Gualapack and Ella’s Kitchen collaborate to launch baby food cap made with advanced recycled plastics

The cap is part of a new collaboration between Ella’s Kitchen, the UK’s number 1 ...
3:22 min Sustainability & Circular Economy
Circular economy

U.S. Plastics Pact brings together leading brands and materials manufacturers to seek solutions to “Problematic and Unnecessary” Materials

Today the U.S. Plastics Pact released its Problematic and Unnecessary Materials List, a first step to accelerating progress toward a circular economy for plastic packaging in the United States. The list identifies 11 items that are not currently reusable, recyclable, or compostable ...
1:46 min Sustainability & Circular Economy
Impact

Plastic Bank stops 2 billion plastic bottles from entering the ocean, partnership with SC Johnson accounts for half of the total

Plastic Bank®, a social enterprise revolutionizing the global supply chain for recycled ocean-bound plastic, announced it has stopped 2 billion plastic bottles from entering the ocean. Its global partnership with SC Johnson, an industry-leading manufacturer of household consumer ...
2:10 min Strategies & Market Analysis, Sustainability & Circular Economy
Partnership

EPBP and RecyClass sign off strategic collaboration

Following the numerous commitments of the industry players to increase uptake of recycled plastics, including the new mandatory target of 25% in PET bottles by 2025, the European PET Bottle Platform (EPBP) and RecyClass decided ...