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Consortium of companies join BP to scale-up PET recycling technology
Britvic, Danone and Unilever, along with Alpla and Remondis, are amongst several food, drink and consumer goods giants to join forces with BP to speed up the development of the technology. Read more
CO2Sustain aims to aid lightweighting process in PET bottles
Lightweighting is the practice of manufacturing thinner plastic bottles which will biodegrade quicker and use less raw materials, but can reduce the quality of the beverage, as the thinner the bottle, the more porous it becomes Read more
Recycled bottle-to-bottle light barrier white opaque PET technically proven for the first time
Sidel used recycled materials in its high-speed PET blowing machine to produce 25 per cent, 50 per cent, and 100 per cent light barrier white opaque bottles Read more
US PET and aromatics markets face major restructuring if plastics recycling goals met by 2030
Wood Mackenzie’s analysis estimates the amount of PET bottles required to meet the 25 per cent rPET content goal for carbonated soft drink and PET water bottles is equivalent to 1.5 million tonnes in 2025 and 2.2 million tonnes in 2030 Read more
Krones to exhibit solutions for a closed plastics cycle at K 2019
The module’s pre-washing component will be on show at the K 2019. Read more
Europe faces challenges in meeting plastic bottle recovery target
The ICIS report found the PET bottle collection rate in Western Europe has risen from 58 per cent in 2016 to 63 per cent in 2018, and is projected to reach 65 per cent in 2019, but is not on course to reach 2029 targets Read more
Proprietary research show preform storage length and conditions can be cause of PET bottle performance issues
PTI studied two litre and 20 ounce preforms that were more than a year old, with the preforms being dried under vacuum to get them back into a position similar to when they were first moulded Read more
NEO Group adds third production line
The three PET line were originally purchased 12 years ago but only two were installed, with the third working perfectly despite over a decade in storage Read more
Sebastian Lemp
Monomer Recycling Group launched to enhance the circularity of PET
Monomer recycling helps brings PET bottles and food containers back to their constituents, monomers, or low molecular weight components that allow purifications, meaning endless reuse of these PET building blocks Read more
RePETition project aims to expand circular economy
Beginning in June 2019, PET household waste such as blister packaging, thermoformed trays, and films will be collected and sorted into a total of six materials types Read more
Klöckner Pentaplast works with Petcore Europe to prove tray to tray recycling
The project started to show clear evidence that post-consumer PET packaging can be recycled back into more food packaging without the addition of clear PET bottle flakes Read more
Avery Dennison CleanFlake portfolio wins FINAT Recycling and Sustainability award 2019
The CleanFlake portfolio enables production of high quality rPET from post-consumer bottles while maintaining all-important visual impact and food contact approval Read more
Nestlé Water, PepsiCo and Suntory Beverage & Food Europe join Consortium founded by Carbios and L’Oréal to support world’s first enzymatic technology for recycling of plastics
Carbios has developed a unique and sustainable technology using highly specific enzymes that can recycle much broader PET plastics and polyester fibres feedstock than any other recycling technologies Read more
AMUT Group reinforces Indorama venture commitment to the 100 per cent food grade PET business
AMUT will open a recycling facility in Mexico, in close proximity to AMUT’s resin production site Read more
100 per cent renewable plastic bottle significantly closer to reality after successful production of bio-based paraxylene
Anellotech, IFPEN and Axens will now purify additional paraxylene to create pilot sample 100 per cent bioPET beverage bottles, as well as sample qualities of bio-based benzene Read more
Starlinger and PET2PET boost PET recycling in Austria
PET2PET processed around one billion PET bottles in 2018, an increase of nine per cent compared to 2017 Read more
Jean-Yves Limet
Petcore Europe and the Parliament Magazine hold European Parliament discussion to present PET industry’s best practices
Speakers included Gian De Belder from P&G and Patricia Fosselard from EFBW, who presented industry practices and both showed that most PET packaging in perfectly recyclable, but the issue is that in Europe not enough material is collected and sorted Read more
New PET containers from RPC Promens provide enhanced handling solution
Already proven in Europe, the containers are now being introduced into the UK market following major investment by RPC Promens at its Deeside facility Read more
RPC Bramlage provides PET reusable jar for skincare specialist Chuckling Goat
The Clip Jar is a reliable and cost-effective solution that attractively echoes the look of a traditional glass storage jar, and is available in 50ml, 125ml, 200ml and 350ml sizes Read more
Countdown to Petcore Europe Conference 2019
Petcore Europe Conference 2019 - only two weeks to go. Read more
