Recycling
With rising interest and appetite for recycled-based products and packaging, demand remains strong for plastics recycling equipment
Standing alongside one of the digitalized granulators, Mark Hellweg, managing director of granulator producer Hellweg Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG, noted that there were fewer booth visitors compared with earlier Fakuma fairs.
When Lindner Washtech GmbH packed up the crates and took down the signs after the K Show in 2019, the recycling equipment maker absolutely knew it was time for change.
For a moment on the Fakuma show floor, Michael Heitzinger saw the recycling market through the eyes of a baker.
Starlinger & Co. GmbH is adapting technology that will provide a simpler, lower-cost approach to completely closing the loop when recycling polyolefins for food-grade applications.
For recycling equipment maker Pure Loop GmbH, it just feels right to be back on the Fakuma show floor.
ExxonMobil Corp. said it is building its first commercial-scale advanced recycling plant and plans others. Recent investments it has made in new virgin plastics capacity, however, are much larger.
Polystyvert, a Canadian company that has developed innovative dissolution technology for recycling polystyrene, is collaborating with Coexpan, the Grupo Lantero division specialised in the manufacture of rigid plastic sheet and thermoformed products, to validate the use of its technology for FFS yoghurt packaging applications.
TotalEnergies Petrochemicals & Refining USA, Inc., an affiliate of broad energy company TotalEnergies has become a funding partner of the Polypropylene Recycling Coalition, an initiative of The Recycling Partnership.
Greenback Recycling Technologies, a UK-headquartered advanced recycling technology company that aims to create certified circular solutions for plastic waste, has announced it has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with PolyCycl, an India based chemical recycling technology company working to generate circular petrochemical feedstock from post-consumer landfill waste plastics.
Dow is taking a number of important steps toward meeting its sustainability targets to address both climate change and plastic waste.
Plastic pollution is a problem affecting all, young and old. New efforts are now being made within the schools, in order to engage and educate even the very young about plastic waste and the need to recycle more.
Two plastic lumber firms come together to create Premier Outdoor Living as investors pursue add-on acquisitions.
With the addition of two new production lines at Synova, the recycling plant acquired by TotalEnergies in 2019, the company has more than doubled the production of recycled polypropylene at the Normandy, France-based plant.