2:30 min Enzymatic recycling
Enzymatic Recycling

CARBIOS and SASA enter discussions for license of 100k ton/year PET biorecycling facility in Turkey

CARBIOS and SASA, a manufacturer of polyester, fiber, filament yarn, polyester-based polymers, specialty polymers and intermediates, have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to cooperate through SASA’s potential acquisition of a license for CARBIOS’ unique PET biorecycling ...
2:11 min Caps & Closures
Closure Printing

Domino launches bottle closure printing station for labelless water bottles

Domino Printing Sciences (Domino) announces the launch of a new range of high-speed ...
1:70 min CSD, Caps & Closures
Launch

SIPA launches ultralight, high-performance GME 30.40 LW neck finish

SIPA has unveiled a groundbreaking innovation in carbonated soft drink (CSD) – the ...
0:43 min Hotrunner systems and controllers
Hot Runner Systems

Mold-Masters® reduces stack height of PET-Series hot runner system

Mold-Masters®, a leading developer and supplier of hot runners, controllers, ...
1:35 min Mechanical recycling
Mechanical recycling

IKV launches joint industrial project LOOPCYCLING to improve industrially available LDPE recyclate qualities from household PCR

The project involves the entire plastics recycling value chain in order to push the ...
1:15 min Sorting and collection
Collaboration

TOMRA supports Henkel to optimize packaging for recycling

TOMRA Recycling and Henkel want to further advance the sortability of packaging. The manufacturer of globally recognized branded products such as Schwarzkopf, Persil and Pritt has installed one of TOMRA’s detection systems in its test laboratory. Going forward, this will be used to ...
0:50 min America, Additives
Opening

New Avient ColorWorks™ Design Center opens near Mexico City

Avient Corporation announced the opening of a new ColorWorks™ Design & ...
2:11 min Europe, Labels and sleeves
Shrink Sleeves

CCL Label opens up new production facility focused on sustainable shrink sleeves in Spain

Plant in Tibi is second production site of the Food&Beverage division in Spain ...
2:38 min Facts & Figures, Sorting and collection
Report

Eunomia: Can advanced sorting contribute to plastic circularity in Europe?

The report, entitled Advanced Sorting for Circularity finds that for many plastic packaging formats, further optimisation of existing sorting technologies is likely to be sufficient for improved circularity. For the remaining sorting challenges, object recognition could be the most ...
1:53 min Management, Thermoforming machines for packaging
Acquisition

ILLIG to be acquired by a German financial investor

The global business with thermoforming systems, packaging systems and services will continue The purchase contract was signed on 17 July 2024 (Signing) and the transfer of ownership is expected to take place at the beginning of August 2024 (Closing)