2:20 min Sustainability & Circular Economy
New plant
Spain: Repetco Innovations receives €30.8 million from the EIB to build a plastic delamination and recycling plant
Located in Albacete, the new plant will have a maximum input capacity of 150 000 tonnes of post-consumer food-grade mixed plastics per year and produce 54 000 tonnes of rPET pellets per year Repetco Innovations is planning to make an initial investment of €47 million and create 48 ...
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2:32 min Sustainability & Circular Economy
rPET
€15 million for innovative plastic recycling factory Umincorp from Invest-NL and Energietransitiefonds Rotterdam
Invest-NL and Energietransitiefonds Rotterdam will jointly invest €15 million in Umincorp for the construction of a new rPET factory in Rotterdam. With this, Umincorp (“Urban Mining Corp”) is taking the next step in recycling plastics from household waste. InnovationQuarter is ...
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2:35 min Recycling processes
Advanced Recycling
INEOS and Petroineos at Grangemouth partner with Plastic Energy in an important breakthrough in the recycling of plastic
The process will use existing refinery operations replacing oil with TACOIL made from waste flexible food packaging to remake virgin plastic for reuse in food and hygiene applications. This trial and the evolution of the policy environment in the UK will inform the development of ...
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