The STADLER Delabelers are a valuable asset for plastic bottle sorting plants, where they can significantly increase the output and purity rates. Altshausen, 5 December 2019 City, date – Plastic...
Data and insights gained from this public-private partnership will help shape domestic recycling A collaborative group of government and packaging industry leaders, led by the Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS), have released the...
What was interesting for the PIMI Editorial Team from this week's issue no. 439 of "macplasonline" published on Wed. Oct. 23rd was its article at the technology section of this...
From the VDMA series of interviews regarding the Circular Economy, we have now the Interview with Martina Schmidt, Head of Recycling/Waste Division at Vecoplan AG, focusing on: • Consumers are the key to...
According to the report of the executive team of the Ocean Cleanup project the system is successfully catches plastics wastes in the Great Pacific patches. Please read the story. Today,...
(NGR) and KUHNE Group: The cooperation between the recycling machine specialist and the extrusion expert is entering its next phase. Since first revealed at K 2016, several joint projects have...
Italian extrusion equipment supplier Union Officine Meccaniche (Milan) has won a contract to supply a line producing extruded polystyrene (XPS) insulation panels for Polish company Synthos Dwory (Oswiecim). Union will...
Online tool RecyClass, available in five languages, developed by Plastics Recyclers Europe (PRE, Brussels / Belgium), has released a protocol that addresses and tests specific design features relating to the...
French insulation specialist Soprema has invested around EUR 7m in a facility for the recycling of complex PET packaging into polyols. The first phase will produce 5,500 t/y to be...
Titling: "There are no alternatives to recyclates", VDMA has published another interview with Karl-Heinz Bußbach, Global the Business Director AZO CHEM/POLY. The highlights are: • Recycling increasingly relates to high-value final products; • Bio-based...
K 2019 – New products from plastic waste: BASF customers showcase prototypes made from chemically recycled material. BASF’s partners in the ChemCycling project: Jaguar Land Rover, Storopack, Südpack and Schneider Electric, Promising...
Today, Monday, June 17th, an opportunity made it possible to visit the "Kajaran Industrial Complex". This manufacturing complex, which is the evolution of a simple ironing workshop since three generations,...
The European recycling sector would like to see bureaucratic processes sped up for waste trade within the EU (Photo: Panthermedia/AlexF76) European recycling association (EuRIC), the European...
Now the K 2019 exhibition is on the timetable of thousands of international visitors and as a tradition the K Portal is increasing the number of its news from exhibitors....
Plastic waste desecrating beaches and rivers or oozing out of the ruptured belly of a dead fish – at the moment, these disturbing images seem to be ubiquitous. Consequently, the...
The company's goals are: Milestone in the company’s efforts to reduce post-consumer styrenic waste; First production of virgin polystyrene from only depolymerised material; Project contribution to INEOS Styrolution’s ambitious efforts...
Held jointly with CMT’s 20th annual GEPET, the new RecyclePlast on May 7-8, spotlights Europe’s plastics waste markets and collection, sorting infrastructure and recycling technologies. Under the European Commission's plans, by 2030 all plastic packaging in the EU...
Not a new discovered island, it’s a Garbage Patch According to a claiming expert (60 Minutes producer Michael Gavshon) ; "The world's largest collection of ocean...