3:80 min Labels and sleeves
Recyclability & Circularity

Siegwerk's deinking primer technologies for labels and sleeves improve packaging recyclability and foster circularity

With its UV- and water-based deinking primers for labels and sleeves, Siegwerk offers validated solutions for a safe and economic deinking of energy cured ink systems that have been so far considered as non-deinkable. This sets new norms to drive deinking as industry standard and ...
2:80 min Digitization, Sorting and collection
Digital watermarks

The Circular Plastic Taskforce partners with Digimarc Corporation to launch pilot to optimize sortation of flexible packaging in Canada, a North American first

The Circular Plastic Taskforce is proud to announce a partnership with Digimarc Corporation, creator of Digimarc watermarks that are driving the next generation of digital identification and detection-based solutions, to test Digimarc® Recycle for optimizing the sortation of flexible ...
1:49 min Sheets & Films
Food packaging films

VTT develops transparent cellulose film to replace traditional plastic in food packaging

“The cellulose film developed by VTT can replace plastic as a more climate-friendly ...
2:21 min Sustainability & Circular Economy, Labels and sleeves
Sustainable labels

UPM Raflatac launches the world’s first certified label material to fight ocean bound plastic pollution

UPM Raflatac is the first company in the world to invest in Ocean Bound Plastics ...
1:53 min Granulation
Granulation

CMG Granulators: New G26 Line: Versatility, Robustness, Precision

CMG launches the new G26 granulator line, for application with injection molding, ...
3:25 min rPET & PET Flakes
Alternative rPET application

Titan race car features rPET honeycomb in front wing to withstand forces 1000 times its own weight

The award-nominated rPET honeycomb material developed by EconCore, specialist ...
2:25 min Recycled plastics
Education

Closing the cycle – recycling training started at SKZ

Recycling has not only gone from being a “nice to have” to an absolute “must have” ...
2:47 min Chillers, process water coolers
Cooling

Optimized cooling systems on SIPA preform tooling cut customer costs, enhance sustainability

Engineering and manufacturing in house a huge number of PET preform molds every ...
1:46 min Complete PET recycling plants
PET Recycling

Axens and Toray Films Europe to boost Plastic Circular Economy with a new PET Chemical Recycling Plant in Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost (France)

Axens, worldwide provider of technologies, products and services, and Toray Films Europe, market leader in engineering plastics films, are announcing their collaboration to study a PET chemical recycling facility at Toray Films Europe production site in Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost (Ain, ...
0:37 min Bottle development and design
Sustainable design

Start-up launches ''The Honest Bottle'' made from 100% rPET

According to the website of UK start-up Honest, which is owned by co-cre8 Systems ...