recycled PET

Recycled food-grade plastics

Iranpolymer/Baspar Now that the Commission Regulation (EU) 2022/1616 on recycled plastic materials and other items that can come into contact with foods is in force, the volume of recycled food-grade plastics is expected to increase. One of the regulation’s key…

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The BOTTLE4FLEX Project: Develop a 100% recyclable skin pack container from recycled PET

Iranpolymer/Baspar In Spain, only recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) has been authorised for post-consumer recycled content for food packaging. Flexible PET packaging cannot be recycled using conventional mechanical technologies because of its multilayer composition. AIMPLAS, the Plastics Technology Centre, Covinil and…

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Designing packaging production process for sustainability

Iranpolymer/Baspar  One of the many challenges in adopting the circular economy concept lies in the production set up of a business operation. The shift entails investment and a transformation of the production process which could take time and resources on…

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Engineering and design of tethered PET beverage caps

Iranpolymer/Baspar Origin Materials, a technology company with a mission to enable the world’s transition to sustainable materials, revealed engineering and design innovations in its manufacturing of tethered PET caps, the first tethered PET caps ever made. “The EU Single-Use Plastic…

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Selenis produces high-quality rPET from Circ’s recovered Terephthalic Acid

Iranpolymer/Baspar Selenis has successfully produced recycled PET chips from terephthalic acid provided by Circ, a Virginia-based textile-to-textile recycler. The chip was produced via a multiple-batch campaign at Selenis’ pilot plant in San-Giorgio, Italy. Using inputs recovered from polycotton textile waste, the high-quality PET…

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Starlinger presents circular economy solutions for plastic packaging

Iranpolymer/Baspar On the occasion of this year’s Chinaplas in Shanghai from April 23 to 26, Starlinger is hosting an Open House at its production facility in nearby Taicang. A 1.5 hour drive away from Shanghai, visitors can see a starEX tape extrusion…

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Italian Packaging Company Will Use Recycled PET From Food Trays to Produce New Film

Iranpolymer/Baspar AMB Spa, a packaging producer based in Italy, will use PET flakes from Indoraa’s PET tray recycling operations in its food-grade packaging film. The partnership between AMB and Indorama is aimed at diverting 150 million post-consumer trays from landfill or…

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Berry Global develops 100% recycled PET bottles for luxury water brand

Iranpolymer/Baspar  A new ‘luxury artesian’ mineral water is being packaged in a bottle using exclusively 100% recycled PET (rPET) bottles, manufactured by Berry Global. NEUE Water has been consciously conceived for today’s modern, on-the-go lifestyle. As well as its recycled…

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Coca-Cola debuts first 100% rPET bottle in India

Iranpolymer/ Baspar  In a first for the country, Coca-Cola India recently launched a new 1-litre bottle made from 100% recycled PET for its packaged drinking water brand Kinley. The use of recycled material in food contact applications had previously been…

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Services to Help Blow Molders Convert to rPET

Iranpolymer/ Baspar  RePETable is the name of a new portfolio of services from Sidel to assist PET stretch-blow molders in overcoming the challenges of including recycled PET (rPET) in their production. RePETable comprises a choice of services from optimizing bottle design for…

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Spring Water Bottler Opens rPET Facility

Iranpolymer/ Baspar  CG Roxane announced the official opening of its second in-house recycled PET plant in Benton, TN. The plant will process recycled PET flakes into pellets and mold new bottles, in support of the company’s shift to manufacturing bottles for…

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PET imports impact EU recycled content targets

Iranpolymer/ Baspar  A major increase in PET imports threatens the competitiveness of the EU’s industry, along with its objective to improve the waste management of plastics. PET imports doubled between 2021 and 2022, reaching 1.9Mt, driven by increased demand for…

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Innovative additive technology brings value gains to plastic compounds

Iranpolymer- According to Baspar, Specialty chemicals company Vertellus, a leading global supplier of high-end additives to the plastics and polymer industries, is showcasing a host of additive solutions here in Dusseldorf at K 2016 (hall 5, stand C08-2).

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