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Urgent: more recycled content needed to meet targets

A group of 31 associations from major market sectors along the European plastics value chain have joined together on chemical recycling.

 

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Berry increases recycled plastics use

The global plastics processor is out with its latest environmental, social and governance report.

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Nova to boost recycling, cut greenhouse gas emissions

Nova Chemicals Corp. has embarked on an ambitious ESG (environmental, social and governance) campaign, with plans to invest as much as $4 billion on sustainable and circular projects.

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Italian companies Saipem, Garbo team up on ChemPET project

Milan-based Saipem, a global provider of integrated basic and detailed onshore engineering, procurement, project management, and construction services and chemical producer Garbo, headquartered in Cerano have announced that they have agreed to collaborate on the industrialisation, further development and commercialisation of Garbo’s proprietary chemical recycling technology, known as ChemPET.

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Automated sorting enhances accuracy, reduces contamination

Compostable plastic can offer a sustainable alternative for conventional plastics, especially in single use packaging, bags and bio-waste bags - but only if it is disposed of in the correct manner, so that it lands in the right waste stream.

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Practising circularity: creating composites from complex polymer waste

A new collaborative demonstration initiative – one in a series of  supply chain projects funded by the Welsh Government and led by WRAP Cymru – has been launched with the aim of showing how plastic materials with no existing end-market can be turned into composites suitable for destined high-performance building applications

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Evonik invests in Interface Polymers

Essen, Germany - Evonik’s Sustainability Tech Fund, established in 2022 by the venture capital arm of the company, has invested in the British specialist in compatibiliser technology, Interface Polymers Ltd.

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Keeping pace with high-quality recycled resin

Production of recycled plastic content is far from meeting demand, posing major industry challenges. Embracing the latest technological advancement in flake sorting helps bridge the gap between supply and demand and gives recyclers a competitive edge in efficiency and profitability.

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SK Chemicals signs a $100 million asset purchase agreement with China’s Shuye

South Korean chemical giant SK chemicals has concluded an asset purchase agreement worth $ 100 million with Shantou, China headquartered Shuye Environmental Technologies, a company with PET depolymerisation technology facilities and expertise.

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Starlinger publishes first sustainability report

Vienna-based Starlinger, a machinery manufacturer and leading producer of woven plastic bag production plants, has released its 2022 sustainability report. It is the company’s first. Available in English and German, the report provides information about Starlinger’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policy as well as about the measures the company has already implemented.

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Recyclers face increasing number of challenges

A variety of factors — among them, inflation, labor and falling virgin resin prices — have conspired to cause market problems for reclaimers.

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TotalEnergies: forging links for a chemical recycling value chain

Paris – A new commercial agreement signed by TotalEnergies and Paprec, a leading French independent plastics recycler, is designed to put in place the first links in a new value chain being developed in France for the chemical recycling of plastic film wastes.

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Hyundai Engineering, KBR sign equipment supply agreement

KBR said it has signed a contract with Hyundai Engineering to supply proprietary equipment for the first Hydro-PRT modular plant that will be installed for LG Chem at a new advanced recycling plant planned as part of LGs Chronos project in Dangjin, South Korea.

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LyondellBasell buys Italy-based recycling compounder Mepol

LyondellBasell Industries is acquiring the Italian compounder Mepol Group for an undisclosed price.  Mepol Group, a manufacturer of recycled, high-performing technical compounds operates in Italy and Poland. Companies belonging to the Group are Mepol S.r.l. and its subsidiaries Polar S.r.l. and Industrial Technology Investments Poland Sp.z.o.o.

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