1:55 min PET recycling systems
Tray to tray

KP TRAY2TRAY® celebrates its second year and calls upon the industry to drive closed loop food packaging

Klöckner Pentaplast (kp) celebrates the second year of its award winning kp ...
2:49 min Recycled plastics
Study

Northwestern University researchers first to demonstrate use of metal-organic frameworks to degrade plastics

What if the life cycle of the plastic bottle was circular? Where a used plastic bottle was returned to its original components, ready to be made into a new plastic bottle instead of possibly ending up in a landfill. A Northwestern University research team is the first to ...
2:80 min Middle East, Sorting and collection
Sorting plants

TOMRA Recycling chosen as equipment provider of DGrade’s new sorting plant in Abu Dhabi

DGrade opened its first sorting facility situated in Abu Dhabi to produce ...
0:50 min Complete PET recycling plants
New plant

Schwarz Produktion expands capacity for PET recycling

The expansion of the plastics and recycling plant of MEG Übach-Palenberg (Heinsberg ...
2:56 min Recycling processes
Plastics recycling - from niche to trend

EREMA establishes new R&D centre for innovative recycling technologies

Plastics recycling is currently evolving very rapidly from a niche to a trend. This ...
1:52 min Sustainability & Circular Economy, rPET & PET Flakes
Alternative rPET application

Continental launches first tires with polyester made from recycled PET bottles

Initial tire dimensions with new ContiRe.Tex technology now available Technology ...
1:33 min Recycling & Compounding, Quality control, service
rPET Quality

GETEC.PARK EMMEN (GPE) releases new White Paper: “New insights to improve the recycled PET product quality control.”

GETEC.PARK EMMEN (GPE) releases a White Paper that provides insightful data on how to control the product quality of recycled PET polymer and packaging. In addition, the right set of chemical analyses techniques to detect relevant substances and PET properties are discussed.
0:59 min Africa, PET recycling systems
Recycling in South Africa

Extrupet will double their food grade operations capacity to over 60,000 tons per annum

The first phase of the expansion at Extrupet, one of the largest and most advanced recyclers of plastics on the African continent, will cost around R300 million.
1:16 min rPET & PET Flakes
rPET/PET capacity

Klӧckner Pentaplast adds rPET/PET capacity to Beaver site to further grow sustainable healthcare and food packaging market in North America

Klöckner Pentaplast (kp), a global leader in recycled content products and high-barrier protective packaging, has chosen its production facility in Beaver, West Virginia for its multi-million dollar production expansion, adding post-consumer recycled content (PCR) PET capacity in ...
2:37 min Facts & Figures, Sustainability & Circular Economy, Sorting and collection
Outlook

TOMRA marks 50th anniversary, highlights urgent need to accelerate circular economy

TOMRA, the global provider of advanced collection and sorting systems, announced a ...