recycled material

Post-recycled resins for diverse applications

Iranpolymer/Baspar Environmental campaigns have long revealed the negative effects of plastic waste in the environment. When plastic litter builds up on land and in the ocean, it poses serious threats to all species on Earth. To help people accept personal…

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Chadwicks introduces sustainable lidding to the Scandinavian market

Iranpolymer/Baspar Chadwick’s rPET lidding is in line with European sustainability initiatives and represents a great effort to lower carbon emissions. It’s approved for food contact and is suitable for butter, dips, spreads, yoghurts and beverages, offering the same quality as standard PET pre-cut…

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Reducing wear for processing aggressive materials

Iranpolymer/Baspar  Working in partnership with European and UK manufacturers allows for enhanced solutions to include splines, co-rotational shafts, mixer elements and sectional barrels. Hertfordshire-based Magog Industries offers its latest range in coatings and materials, designed to further enhance longer life and greater…

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Plastic pollution fix needs more than just PPT, warns expert

Iranpolymer/Baspar The Plastic Packaging Tax in the UK has been hailed as a positive step toward addressing plastic pollution, but Raffi Schieir, Director of Prevented Ocean Plastic, argues that it may not go far enough. In an exclusive interview, Schieir…

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Report on ALPLA Group Plants Affirms Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Benefits of PET, HDPE Recycling

Iranpolymer/Baspar  ALPLA Group, a plastics recycler and packaging manufacturer, announced the results of life cycle assessments conducted by c7-consult. The analysis looked at data from four ALPLA recycling facilities, two in Germany and two in Mexico. Results confirm the carbon emissions…

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Life Cycle Analysis Shows Pyrolysis Can Reduce Carbon Footprint of Cracking Operations

Iranpolymer/Baspar  A study published in The Journal of Cleaner Production, and supported by funding from the American Chemistry Council, describes greenhouse gas (GHG) benefits of substituting pyrolysis oil from post-use plastic for naphtha and fossil fuel gases in steam cracking operations. The…

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Alpla, Tönissteiner launch reusable bottle made from 100% rPET

Iranpolymer/Baspar  Packaging specialist Alpla has collaborated with Privatbrunnen Tönissteiner, a mineral water company based in Germany, on the development of a reusable PET bottle made entirely of recycled material. The new bottle, of which the development was worked on by the…

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Neste Announces Agreement to Produce Bottles Using Renewable & Recycled Material

Iranpolymer/Baspar  Neste announced a collaboration that will bring its RE, a polyethylene terephthalate derived from renewable and recycled material, to bottle production. The cooperation between Neste, Suntory, and Mitsubishi will enable the production of PET resin on a commercial scale. Neste RE is Neste’s…

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Pepsi, Nestlé debut first 100% rPET bottles in Thailand

Iranpolymer/Baspar  Suntory PepsiCo Beverage Thailand and Mineré, a subsidiary of Nestlé in Thailand, are the first two beverage brands in the Thai market to adopt 100% recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) for their plastic bottles. Envicco, a joint venture between Thai…

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Arburg marks 50 years of collaboration with H&K Müller

Iranpolymer/ Baspar This year, more than 50 years of collaboration between H&K Müller GmbH & Co. KG and Arburg was crowned by the delivery of the company’s 100th machine. The hydraulic Allrounder 420 C Golden Edition is equipped with a Multilift Select…

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K-Recycling: Initiative wants to harmonize the calculation of the proportion of recycled material

IranPolymer / Baspar The Brussels-based organizations European Plastics Converters Association (EuPC), European Carpet and Rug Association (ECRA) and European Single Ply Waterproofing Association as well as the independent Belgian laboratory Centexbel – VKC (Kortrijk / Belgium) and the Belgian Quality…

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BPI Recycled Products achieves Zero Waste to Landfill certification

BPI Recycled Products (BPI-RP) – a division of British Polythene Industries – has staked its claim as perhaps the only company in the UK that manufacturers finished products from recycled material with zero waste going to landfill in the process.

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