Recycling

R-Cycle starts into a new phase as an open community. The first official general assembly was held on May 3, 2022. at R-Cycle member Multivac's corporate site in Wolfertschwenden, Germany. R-Cycle was founded in 2020 as an initiative of various technology companies and organizations along the entire life cycle of...

The company of the Group Forvia, Faurecia, and Veolia have signed a cooperation and research agreement to jointly develop innovative compounds for automotive interior modules, aiming to achieve an average of 30% of recycled content by 2025. Through this partnership, the two companies will accelerate the...

The recently opened Circular Plastics Australia PET recycling facility in Albury-Wodonga, New South Wales, is equipped with a recoStar PET 215 HC iV+ PET bottle-to-bottle recycling line from Starlinger that produces 2.5 tons of rPET per hour. Circular Plastics Australia (PET) is a joint venture partnership between...

CMG will exhibit its most recent innovations for the recycling at the Greenplast 2022 exhibition-conference, scheduled at Fiera Milano from May 3 to 6, where its general manager, Giorgio Santella, will also take part at Tech Talks on May 4, organized as part of the Packaging Speaks Green conference, which...

Among the schemes so far approved by the Circular Plastics Alliance to communicate the end destination of recycled plastics to the European Union with the aim of reusing 10 million tons by 2025, Plastica Seconda Vita is the only one originated in Italy. The figures published by IPPR...

On March 31, Tomra, the global provider of advanced collection and sorting systems, celebrated its 50th anniversary. “We live in a world that needs big transformation. We urgently need to improve sustainability, develop the circular economy, and make more efficient use of resources - challenges which Tomra’s solutions can...

In 2020 Amut was selected by UK-based Viridor as the supplier of a new-generation polymer recycling facility. Viridor is actively committed to increasing recycling and achieving net zero emissions. The new UK’s largest multi-polymer plastic recycling plant in Avonmouth, reflects the company’s continuous drive to build a...

The well-known Italian manufacturer of compounding lines and extrusion systems, in particular dedicated to the ecological transition, Icma San Giorgio, has recently delivered a second compounding line for biodegradable polymers to Sabiomaterials, a young and dynamic Italian company very active in the field of...

Carbios, a pioneer in the development of enzymatic solutions dedicated to the end-of-life of plastic and textile polymers, and Indorama Ventures, one of the world-leading PET manufacturer, jointly announced a collaboration to build a manufacturing plant operating Carbios’ PET bio-recycling technology at Indorama Ventures’ PET production site in...

Largest polyolefins producer in the Americas, as well as market leader and pioneer producer of biopolymers on an industrial scale, Braskem announced its investment in Nexus Circular, a commercial leader in advanced recycling that converts landfill-bound plastics into circular feedstocks used in the production of...

Based on a chemical and mechanical process, with zero pollution impact, Repur is a technology to transform powders deriving from the processing of polyurethane, chipboard MDF and other recycled materials into a workable material with remarkable properties. Thanks to customized formulations of binders...

The leading global supplier of specialty polymers, Solvay, has introduced a new Omnix high-performance polyamide (HPPA) compound family based on a minimum of 33% recycled content, consisting of 70% PIR/PCR recycled resin which is highly secured and has a controlled process by the supplier. The innovative...

The Ecotech division of Amut has been awarded a contract to design and manufacture a plant destined to the largest Australian centre for post-consumer plastics recycling. The turnkey project includes two washing lines and a post-consumer polyethylene and polypropylene recovery facility within the framework of the...

French President Emmanuel Macron and Eastman Board Chair and CEO Mark Costa jointly announced Eastman's plan to invest up to one billion dollars in a material-to-material molecular recycling facility in France. This facility would use Eastman's polyester renewal technology to recycle up to 160,000 metric tonnes annually of...

The Polish company FBSerwis needed a reliable shredder to crush municipal solid waste with particle sizes greater than 80 mm and process mixtures of plastics. Vecoplan replaced an old machine in the company’s existing line with an energy-efficient VVZ 2500 pre-shredder, which is designed for a throughput of roughly 42 tonnes per hour...

After Andrea Rigliano, also Riccardo Castello joined Syncro Group as managing director of Plasmac, the business unit devoted to recycle (and owned in partnership with Erema). This appointment is a clear reflection of the Syncro Group’s ambitious plans for Plasmac. “We’re extremely pleased to be able to announce Riccardo as the new...

The international, integrated oil, gas and chemicals company headquartered in Vienna, OMV, has taken the final investment decision to build a chemical recycling demo plant, based on its proprietary ReOil technology. With this, OMV is taking the next step toward an industrial-scale plant planned for 2026. The patented...

Many are the innovative and unique attributes of the new series of grinding system solutions by CMG Granulators for application with blow molding machines, and all of them contribute to obtaining the highest degree of productivity, regrind quality (homogeneous particle dimensions and absence of dust), efficiency of operation...

Great projects are often born from great collaborations, as teamwork is like an equation in which work is divided and successes are multiplied.

At the Ecomondo fair (Rimini, Italy, October 26-29), Aliplast, a subsidiary of Hera Group, has relaunched its commitment to the circular economy. The company aims at increasing the production of recycled plastic by 150% within 2030. With about 100 thousand tons of polymers recycled every year, Aliplast continues to expand its...