Recycle

  • 19 May 2021

    Industry 4.0: certificate of conformity for Exact pelletizers

    The certificate of conformity according to the "Industry 4.0-Ready" requirements has been issued by Amaplast (the Italian Plastics and Rubber Processing Machinery and Moulds Manufacturers’ Association) to Exact, a member company based in Zingonia (Bergamo, Italy). Amaplast's technical department carried out an analysis of the...
  • 05 May 2021

    European plastics recyclers will meet in Amsterdam next November

    Annual event organised by Crain Communications and Plastic Recyclers Europe (PRE), the “Plastics Recycling Show Europe” is a pan-European, free-to-attend exhibition, conference and awards designed specifically for plastics recycling professionals. The next edition will take place at RAI, Amsterdam in the Netherlands, on November 4-5, 2021...
  • 20 April 2021

    Fanuc partners with Recycleye to robotize recycling industry

    One of the world’s largest robotics manufacturers, Fanuc, is breaking into the waste management industry by partnering with intelligent waste management startup Recycleye. Over the past 12 the months, Recycleye has combined its validated AI computer vision technology with Fanuc’s 60 years of experience in automation, to...
  • 30 March 2021

    A Sorema "film-to-film" recycling plant to Polish Anna Recykling

    Polyethylene films are nowadays playing an increasingly essential role in protecting food and goods throughout the whole supply chain, enabling correct and safe delivery. However, once they become waste, they have to be recycled too. As a result, the share of recycled films is rising all over Europe and especially in countries like Poland, where...
  • 23 March 2021

    PolyREC created to report on Europe’s plastics circularity

    Petcore Europe, PlasticsEurope, Plastics Recyclers Europe, and VinylPlus have mutually agreed to join forces to form the organisation PolyREC. PolyREC will monitor, verify, and report their plastics recycling and uptake data in Europe. This will be achieved by using a common data collection system - RecoTrace. PolyREC will ensure traceability...
  • 02 March 2021

    JSW‘s MMA regeneration is industrializing: from waste to virgin

    PMMA waste depolymerization is not only “nice to have” for the benefit of the environment (sea, land, air), but foremost a tremendous resource and capital that has hardly been exploited professionally on an industrial scale to this day. MMAtwo is tackling the economic solution to this environmental problem methodically. To this end...
  • 23 February 2021

    Avery Dennison launches label-liner recycling program in Europe

    As part of its ongoing efforts to help establish a circular economy, Avery Dennison today announced the launch of AD Circular, a comprehensive program providing recycling of used paper and filmic label liners in countries across Europe. Through the program, companies can simply use an online web application to schedule a...
  • 16 February 2021

    RecoTrace: advanced data system for circular PVC

    Data collection system to monitor, verify, and report PVC recycling and uptake in Europe, RecoTrace builds upon Recovinyl’s 18 years’ experience of collecting credible recycling data. The PVC industry’s commitment to report reliable data, has made Recovinyl the industry standard for data reporting. In 2019, Recovinyl recorded a total of...
  • 15 February 2021

    45 million euros from Intesa Sanpaolo to Montello for circular economy projects

    The Italian company Montello obtained from the Italian bank Intesa Sanpaolo a 45 million euros loan out of the 6 billion euros ceiling dedicated to circular economy established in the 2018-2021 Italian Business Plan. The objective of the loan is to support the 2021-2022 investment plan as well as the...
  • 27 January 2021

    Alpla invests 5 million euros in Italy for bottle-to-bottle

    The global manufacturer of plastic packaging and recycling specialist, the Alpla Group, is investing more than five million euros in an extrusion system for food-grade recycled PET (rPET) made of used PET bottles (so-called post-consumer material) at its site in Anagni (Frosinone, Italy)...
  • 27 January 2021

    Transition 4.0 and energy savings for CMG machines

    The range of machines manufactured by CMG, including granulators, shredders, feeder belts, evacuation and conveyor systems, dedusting, dust management and filtration equipment, has obtained the Industry 4.0 conformity certificate and, therefore, complies with the requirements of Italy’s Transition 4.0 National Plan. The news was announced by...
  • 20 January 2021

    Borealis and Tomra in the mechanical recycling of post-consumer waste

    Borealis and Tomra have announced the operational start of their advanced mechanical recycling demo plant in Lahnstein, Germany, the result of a partnership that marries chemistry with technology for unsurpassed results. The state-of-the-art plant processes both rigid and flexible plastic waste from households...
  • 20 January 2021

    Noiseless and dust free on-board recycling

    What to do to reduce noise, dust and energy consumption when recycling scrap directly on the processing machine? For this application Adler has developed a cutting system which, by exploiting the combination of helical scissor cutting and the multiplicity of cutting edges, has achieved  the desired result...
  • 13 January 2021

    Stadler opens new center in Slovenia focused on plastic sorting and recycling

    Stadler announced the opening of its new Test and Innovation Center at its production site in Krsko, Slovenia. The new facility will play a dual role as a test center for customer demonstrations and training, and as an innovation center housing Stadler’s Research and Development activities focused on the plastic sorting process...
  • 15 December 2020

    Amut returns to Australia with a post consumer PET bottle recycling plant

    In 2000 Amut had delivered to Coca Cola Amatil in New South Wales, Australia, one of the first plants in the world for the recycling of post consumer PET bottles destined for the production of food rPET, thus starting the "bottle-to -bottle ". In recent years, however, China and South East Asia in general have banned imports of plastic waste, so…
  • 09 December 2020

    Joint development of a new casing for meat products from post-consumer plastics

    Driven by a shared vision of sustainability and strong collaboration, DSM, Sabic, Cepsa, Fibrant, and Viscofan have together created a multi-barrier casing for meat products made via advanced recycling of post-consumer plastics. The transition towards recycled-based multi-layer films enables the packaging industry to adopt a more sustainable…
  • 09 December 2020

    Recycling of printed plastic films and processing of recyclate

    PrintCYC is a value chain initiative for the recyling of printed films. Current members are the machine suppliers Brückner Maschinenbau, Kiefel and PackSys Global, the CPP film specialist Profol, the ink manufacturer hubergroup, the converter Constantia Flexibles as well as the recycling technology specialist Erema. The initiative is...