Karen Laird

KraussMaffei Group UK is pleased to announce the appointment of Benjamin Albrecht as its new managing director. Albrecht replaces Mike Bate, who left the company on 18 September 2023. 

A new multiyear, science-focused public-private partnership was launched yesterday at the UN General Assembly.

This year saw the return of the Rethink Awards, a biannual event celebrating the sustainability achievements achievements of the industry that is open to members of the Dutch Federation of the Rubber and Plastics Industry, NRK, and Plastics Europe.

Toray Industries and Honda Motor Co., Ltd. are cooperating on the joint development of a chemical recycling technology for glass-fibre reinforced  PA6 parts recovered from end-of-life vehicles, the companies have announced.

BASF has announced the development and launch of a new range of drop-in additives based on bio-attributed raw materials according to a certified biomass balance approach.

It’s often said that the key to success is collaboration, and if this latest report from the Nordic Council of Ministers for the Environment and Climate is anything to go by, that certainly seems to be the case in the case of waste plastic management.

The findings of a new survey from show that sustainable and recyclable packaging has become a top priority for UK online shoppers, says DS Smith, the packaging company that conducted the research.

Envalior has announced that Epoca, an Italian designers and manufacturer of garden and household products located in Bassano del Grappa, Italy, has chosen its Akulon RePurposed, a polyamide made from mechanically recycled discarded fishing nets for the production of its new Sealove garden tool collection.

Israel-based cleantech company UBQ Materials has raised $70 million in a financing round led by Eden Global Partners, the company announced today.

A waste recovery technology developed by US-based pulp and paper company Georgia-Pacific, can contribute significantly to helping municipalities in the US and abroad reduce the carbon emissions associated with current waste management practices, a new life cycle assessment (LCA) has shown.

German machinery and plant engineering sector strongly impacted by weak global economy

France-based engineering and technology company Technip Energies and Versalis, Eni's chemical arm, have signed an agreement to build a platform for the advanced chemical recycling of plastic waste.

Wisconsin-based custom sheet extruder Pacur will use Eastman’s Eastar Renew 6763 to produce rigid, thermoformed, sterile barrier medical device packaging, the company has announced.

Following the MOU signed in April between Lummus and biotechnology company RWDC, in which the two companies agreed to cooperate on the development of technology to accelerate PHA production at scale, the partners have now announced a binding Joint Development and Commercial Cooperation Agreement (JDCCA) aimed at rapidly expanding the manufacturing and global licensing of polyhydroxyalkanoate, or PHA, materials.