1:43 min Staple fibers, fibers, filaments, PET recycling systems
Exhibition

EREMA presents INTAREMA® FibrePro:IV, a new solution for PET fibre-to-fibre recycling

Following their entry into the fibres and textiles sector, as announced at K 2022, ...
11:28 min Sustainability & Circular Economy, Enzymatic recycling
Ambition

Carbios aims to be a leader in growing r-PET market with an ambition to capture 8 to 12% share by 2035 through licensing model

Carbios has recently consolidated key partnerships with Indorama Ventures and Novozymes, and has announced funding and investment of over €150 million for the first PET biorecycling plant in the world, the cost of which has been re-estimated at €230 million1 Carbios intends to ...
1:57 min Sorting and collection
Collaboration

TOMRA and Plastretur sign joint venture to create Norway’s first dedicated sorting plant to enable circularity of plastic packaging

The global sustainable technology company TOMRA has signed a majority ownership ...
2:47 min Enzymatic recycling
Enzymatic recycling

Indorama Ventures and Carbios reaffirm partnership to build first-of-a-kind PET biorecycling plant in France

Indorama Ventures and Carbios announce the signing of a non-binding Memorandum of ...
0:59 min Recycled plastics, Additives
Additives

Nexam in new success in Reactive recycling for PET

Nasdaq First North-listed Nexam Chemical – which invents, develops, produces and sells additives to the plastics industry worldwide – achieves new success in projects with additives for recycled PET. Nexam has received a first production order worth SEK 0.5 million for thermoformed ...
1:31 min Chemical recycling
Grant

Avantium awarded €1.5 million EU grant to demonstrate the electrochemical conversion of CO2 into sustainable plastic materials

Avantium announces that it has been awarded a €1.5 million grant by the EU Horizon Europe programme for its participation in the research and development programme HICCUPS1. This programme aims to demonstrate the utilisation of CO2 as a feedstock for the production of polyesters. The ...
2:11 min Sorting and collection, PET films, trays, cups
Recycling

PET tray recycling: Henkel is using 100 % PCR for blister packs

In a pilot project, Henkel is now using 100 % PCR from the ''Gelber Sack'' (''yellow ...
1:13 min Recycled plastics
PET recycling

Biffa diverts 1,600 tonnes of waste plastic back into the circular economy, since opening PET Recovery Plant in Washington last year

The Group has pioneered new technology that targets, then captures, tiny flakes of recyclable material from contaminated waste.
2:14 min Chemical recycling
PET recycling

Eastman secures significant feedstock agreements for molecular recycling facility in France

Eastman announced it has secured a significant amount of feedstock needed for its planned molecular recycling facility in Port Jerome sur Seine, Normandy, France. With an investment of $1 billion, the planned facility will become the world’s largest material-to-material molecular ...
1:70 min Facts & Figures, America, rPET & PET Flakes
Expansion

Verdeco: New innovation center of excellence & rPET manufacturing facility

Verdeco, specializing in customized rPET solutions, announced they will be opening the doors of their brand-new innovation center and manufacturing facility in Greenville, South Carolina in June 2023. This milestone is a major move for Verdeco following their 2020 ...