Riciclo

According to Conai (the Italian packaging consortium) initial forecasts, the year that has just begun will see an increase in the percentage of recycled packaging placed on the market, exceeding the 70% required by Europe by 2030. “After a difficult 2023, we can look to the future with more optimism. But...

Amut recently installed the first of three post-consumer PET bottle recycling lines at a food and beverage company's plant in Lima, Peru. The line has a capacity of 6,000 kg per hour and is designed to recover rPET for the production of new bottles. The second and third lines, both 3,000 kg per hour, will be built at...

Sabic welcomed queen consort of the Netherlands, Máxima Zorreguita Cerruti, to the Sabic and Plastic Energy advanced recycling unit and the Sabic-owned hydrotreater unit. The visit formed part of a broader working visit of the Queen to the Chemelot industrial site in Geleen, the Netherlands, to...

Kraiburg TPE has released a new range of thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) products that contain at least 73% recycled content. The new Recycling Content TPE for Automotive series has been designed to fulfil a variety of technical applications. To this scope, Kraiburg TPE has also signed an...

The European Council presidency and the European Parliament representatives reached a provisional political agreement on a proposal for a Regulation on packaging and packaging waste to make packaging more sustainable and reduce packaging waste in the EU...

GKV, German association of the plastics converters, IK, German association for plastics packaging and films, and VDMA, plastics and rubber machinery association, sent a joint message to decision-makers in the final phase of the European Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR). If the...

The post-consumer PET bottle washing and recycling plant supplied by Sorema (the recycling systems division of Previero) running at Commercial Plastics (CPC) in Yangon, Myanmar, achieved the expected quality and quantity parameters, and will provide the basis for a second plant destined for...

By mating its energy efficient sheet extrusion lines with Kreyenborg’s IR-Clean Super-Clean process for post-consumer recycled PET, Meaf Machines can now offer its customers a cost-effective alternative for the production of FDA/EFSA approved single layer PET food grade sheet. A first...

For recycling of post-consumer recyclate (PCR) or any highly contaminated polymer, Coperion has developed the innovative ZSK FilCo filtration compounder that allows filtration and compounding in a single production step. With the new ZSK FilCo system, waste plastic is fed into a ZSK twin screw extruder, where it is melted, homogenized and…

A leading company operating in the field of integrated recycling process solutions, Amut was recently assigned a major order from A2A, a big multi-utility Italian group and a leader in the field of energy and the environment. Recognising the value of the innovative technological solutions offered by...

Coperion has successfully launched operation of its new Recycling Innovation Center. In this high-tech test centre for plastics recycling applications, every recycling process step - from material handling and feeding to extrusion, compounding, pelletizing, material postprocessing and deodorization - can be tested...

The European Investment Fund (EIF) has signed a 50 million euros participation in Infinity Recycling’s Circular Plastics Fund, a European impact fund that invests in companies developing new processes for the advanced recycling of plastics. The fund supports companies with scalable technologies that...

LyondellBasell announced it has acquired a 50% stake in Stiphout Industries. Stiphout is involved in the sourcing and processing of post-consumer plastic packaging waste. The company operates a facility located in Montfort, the Netherlands, with an annual processing capacity equivalent to...

A manufacturer of treatment plants for plastic materials, specializing in particular in filtration and granulation systems with innovative and customized solutions, Filtec celebrates its first thirty years in 2023. The company was founded in 1993 in Badia Polesine (near Rovigo) by Gianfranco Baracco, who...

The capital city of Kenya, Nairobi, generates more than 2,400 tons of solid waste every day, in entire Kenya this is estimated to be more than 22,000 tons of waste per day.

Acquisita da RadiciGroup poco più di tre anni fa, Zeta Polimeri, azienda italiana attiva nel recupero di fibre sintetiche e materiali termoplastici con sede a Buronzo (Vercelli), è entrata pienamente a far parte del gruppo con il nome Radici EcoMaterials.

Per ottenere polimeri di elevata qualità nei processi di riciclo, la filtrazione è una delle fasi più importanti. A tale scopo Break Machinery ha sviluppato il sistema DUO a doppio filtro che permette di ottenere la massima produttività garantendo un’alta qualità del prodotto finito.

At Mecspe (BolognaFiere, 29-31 March) the recycling machinery manufacturer, CMG Granulators, will be exhibiting its latest innovations dedicated, in particular, to injection moulding, blow moulding and post-consumer recycling sectors.

A world leading manufacturer of plastics washing and recycling systems, the Italian company Sorema, in collaboration with the Austrian manufacturer Starlinger, installed a recycling plant for post-consumer PET bottles at the factory of the Congolese recycler Ok Plast.

An Italian manufacturer of machines for the recovery of plastic waste, Tria is developing together with the Swedish company CombiQ a new service that can be activated both for new purchases and for granulators already in the customer's possession, which will be called Tcloud.