4:25 min Recycling & Compounding, Recycling processes
Recycling

Loop Industries announces independent review confirming effectiveness of patented technology

Independent testing by respected third-party research center confirms that Loop’s Gen II depolymerization technology is effective at producing pure monomers - Loop Industries (“Loop” or “the Company”), an innovator in sustainable plastics technology, released the report of an ...
1:32 min Global themes, Sustainability & Circular Economy, Recycling & Compounding, …
Sorting

Milliken to join the Digital Watermark Project, HolyGrail 2.0, a cutting-edge European initiative to drive a truly circular economy

Milliken & Company’s Chemical Division has joined the Digital Watermarks ...
2:58 min Markets and Management, Management, Recycling & Compounding, …
Growth through increasing recycling rates

Demand for EREMA PET recycling technologies continues to grow

The recycling of PET bottles has gained worldwide acceptance over the past 20 years ...
1:39 min Markets and Management, Management, Recycling & Compounding, …
New production site

Starlinger doubles production capacity for plastics recycling systems

Starlinger has been producing plastics recycling systems from the recoSTAR PET ...
2:11 min Recycling & Compounding, PET recycling systems
Melt Filtration Technology

Gneuss Kunststofftechnik: Reliable, trouble-free melt filtration as a decisive factor for the economical use of reclaim in plastics processing

If inhouse waste and heavily contaminated post-consumer waste are added to the ...
1:20 min Materials, Processing & Handling, Biobased Material
Plant-based Plastic Materials

Plant-based and recyclable plastic bottles now enabled with VTT’s new FDCA technology using citrus peel as raw material

The shift from fossil-based to renewable bio-plastics requires new efficient ...
1:52 min Caps & Closure Technology
Caps & Preforms

15 December 2020: SACMI webinar on lightweight solutions in the cap-preform-production - live streams for all time zones, 7 languages

Live from the SACMI parent company, this webinar will showcase the latest ...
1:11 min Materials, Processing & Handling, Biobased Material
Funding

Avantium: €7.5 million grant from National Programme Groningen confirmed

Avantium N.V. announces that the National Programme Groningen has confirmed the award to the company of a €7.5 million grant to support the construction of a 5 kilotonnes FDCA (furandicarboxylic acid) flagship plant, to be built in Delfzijl, The Netherlands. This grant is part of a ...
1:29 min Blow Moulding & Coating, Bottle development and design
Bottle Development

Protein-rich juice hits Colombian shelves in Amcor PET bottle

Amcor has developed a new hot-fill polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottle for ...
2:20 min Beverages, Milk, Global themes, …
rPET for Dairy

Sustainable dairy cups made from 100% rPET

Three Upper Austrian companies show how the circular econ-omy can work: with ...