rPET

Ultrasonic welding enhances recyclability of to-go cups

Iranpolymer/Baspar  The production of sustainable food packaging such as beverage cups still offers great potential for optimization. This is demonstrated by the innovative solution of a start-up from Latvia. The company not only produces the cups for coffee to-go and soft drinks from…

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Pont, Blue Ocean Closures make biobased closures work

Iranpolymer/Baspar Building a viable circular economy is only possible when innovative leaders have the confidence to cooperate. Extensive resources and investments are required to create progressive solutions that can truly support the efficiency and scalability demanded by the global packaging…

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Lego launches tyres made with recycled materials

Iranpolymer/Baspar As Lego continues its search for sustainable alternatives to virgin plastic, the Danish toy maker has launched tyres made from recycled materials sourced from old fishing nets, ropes, and engine oil. The material is a blend of styrene-ethylene-butylene-styrene created by mechanically recycling…

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ALPLA on a growth trajectory

Iranpolymer/Baspar ALPLA beschleunigt den weltweiten Ausbau des Recyclings und will die Kapazitäten bis 2030 auf 700.000 Tonnen Material verdoppeln. // ALPLA is accelerating the global expansion of its recycling activities and aims to double its capacity to 700,000 tonnes of…

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LVF Packaging urges the industry to switch to clear rPET Mono

Iranpolymer/Baspar At present, different manufacturers use various forms of rPET (Recycled Polyethylene Terephthalate) for manufacturing, which means it makes recycling trays en masse virtually impossible as different materials need to go into different recycling streams and sorting them out is…

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US PET bottle recycling rates hit ‘highest level’ in 2023

Iranpolymer/Baspar Recycling rates for polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles in the US hit their “highest levels” in 2023, as reported in the National Association for PET Container Resources’ (NAPCOR) 2023 PET Recycling Report. In 2023, the US PET bottle collection rate hit…

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Origin Materials produces new rPET caps with enhanced features

Iranpolymer/Baspar US-based packaging tech company Origin Materials is advancing the production of its recyclable polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) caps with the shipment of these caps for commercial qualification. The company has produced caps with new features requested by customers at a…

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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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Husky leads circular packaging innovation at Gulfood Manufacturing 2024

Iranpolymer/Baspar Husky TechnologiesTM has returned to exhibit at Gulfood Manufacturing 2024 taking place in Dubai, UAE from November 5-7. Husky’s booth, located in Hall 2, Stand B 2-4, highlights the company’s latest technologies, solutions, and services designed to enable the circular economy across…

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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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Finke presents sustainable colouring solutions at FAKUMA 2024

Iranpolymer/Baspar  Sustainability, colouring solutions for products with a high proportion of recycled materials and support for design-for-recycling approaches are currently the focus of product development at Karl Finke GmbH & Co. KG from Wuppertal, one of the largest medium-sized manufacturers of high-quality…

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QC Polymer seeks investment to drive circular economy

Iranpolymer/Baspar The new owner of QC Polymer is seeking £1 million this year and potentially looking for £5-6 million next year which will significantly upgrade the technologies used to sort and treat PET at the West Midland’s recycling facility. Managing director and…

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Lego Group’s purchase of mass-balanced polymer surges to 30%

Iranpolymer/Baspar The earnings report for the first half of 2024 released today by Danish toymaker Lego Group contained a number of highlights, particularly as regards the company’s progress towards its sustainability goals. While the company delivered double-digit growth on the…

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Versatile recycling technologies to meet increasing expectations

Iranpolymer/Baspar Despite the tension felt by the plastics recycling market in Europe, new legislation provides reason for optimism. Recycling machine manufacturer EREMA has invested in the very latest technologies in recent years to pave the way for a plastics circular…

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QC Polymer revives waste products for a circular economy

Iranpolymer/Baspar Editor Rebekah Jordan learns more about QC Polymer’s mission to strive for a circular economy, by investing in advanced recycling technology and AI sorting, with the company’s managing director, Arpan Dhanuka. Q. Could you elaborate on the specific areas where the…

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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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Coca-Cola using Starlinger machinery for bottle-to-bottle recycling in Indonesia

Iranpolymer/Baspar  Coca-Cola continues to introduce 100% recycled PET bottles – excluding caps and labels – in markets across the world. Last year, its announcements focused in Asia, with debuts in India, the Philippines, and Indonesia. In Indonesia, the recycled PET is supplied…

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Sustainable machine and plant technologies for the Middle East carpet industry

Iranpolymer/Baspar  DOMOTEX Middle East is the leading event for the carpet and flooring industry in the Middle East. It focuses on machine-made carpets, textile carpets, and handmade carpets. Oerlikon’s Polymer Processing Solutions division and its joint venture partner BB Engineering…

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PET bottle life cycle and NIR heating technology

Iranpolymer/Baspar The global PET containers market is expected to grow annually at 5.3% CAGR between 2022 and 2023. It will increase from USD 73,1Bn to USD 122, 4 Bn, according to the Future Marketing Insights report. More than 500 billion…

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Sustainable technologies for the Turkish manmade fibers market

Iranpolymer/Baspar At ITM, Turkey’s most important textile machinery exhibition, more than 1,000 international exhibitors will present themselves from 4 to 8 June 2024 at the Tuyap Fair and Congress Center in Istanbul. Oerlikon’s Polymer Processing Solutions division and its joint…

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