The new plant will immediately produce an approximate 18,000 tons per year of recycled material from near-household collection.

At the new plant, the joint venture produces recycled PET granulate based on bottles from household waste for the production of new preforms and bottles.

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Alpla Starts rPET Production in Romania

German specialist for chemical PET recycling expands capacity by up to 200 t of used plastic bottles per day.

From left to right: Jan van Kisfeld Managing Director), Dr. Vivek Tandon (Founder ) and Benjy Thompson (CEO of the Development Authority of Bulloch County).

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Revalyu Builds Major Facility in the USA

Each year, more than one million tons of plastic waste are generated in Kenya – so far unused. T3 wants to change this and invests in a bottle-to-bottle recycling plant from Starlinger.

Around 1,334,000 tons of plastic become waste in Kenya each year.

Kreislaufwirtschaft

Starlinger Installs First Plant in Kenya

At the beginning of March, Tomra opened a second testing center at its German head office to conduct thorough testing on a wider range of sorting processes.

Also at the beginning of March, Tomra opened a second testing center at its German head office to conduct thorough testing on a wider range of sorting processes.

Ehrhardt, Melanie

Testing out the Circular Economy

The company will build a modern plant in Ballito in the South African province of KwaZulu Natal by autumn 2024.

From 2025, the internationally active packaging and recycling specialist will produce around 35,000 tonnes of rPET per year at its new recycling plant in South Africa.

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Alpla Builds New Plant in South Africa

Duytan Plastic Recycling will increase its reprocessing capacity to 60,000 tons of plastics.

Duytan Plastic Recycling is the first PET bottle-to-bottle recycler in Vietnam.

Vietnamese Recycler Installs Third Starlinger Line

RCS Plastics processes PET flakes into high-quality regranulate for preform and beverage bottle manufacturers. To ensure the required food quality of the recycled material, the company relies on Sikora technology for the quality control of the rPET flakes and pellets.

Cedric Steeg, Employee in Quality Assurance, holds material sample in front of the Puritiy Concept V.

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Check Food Quality of Recyclates

With two Starlinger recoSTAR PET bottle-to-bottle recycling lines, Piedmont-based Dentis Recycling Italy S.r.l. expanded its product portfolio and now offers food-grade rPET pellets in addition to hot-washed PET bottle flakes

The Starlinger recoSTAR PET 330 HC iV+ bottle-to-bottle recycling lines produce bottle-grade rPET and have a production capacity of up to 3.3 tons per hour each.

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Dentis Launches New Food-Grade rPET Brand

Mohinani is bringing PET bottle-to-bottle recycling to West Africa and is buying two Starlinger plants for this purpose.

The recoSTAR PET iV+ recycling lines produce food-grade rPET that can be used up to 100% in PET preform production.

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Bottle-to-Bottle-Recycling in Ghana

Berry Global and Werner & Mertz receive the WorldStar Packaging Award 2023.

The design of the head follows a mono-material approach, with over 97% of it produced in polypropylene.

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International Award for Sustainable Sprayer Design

Focus on recyclability: at Interpack 2023, Interseroh+ presents its range of services-

Messe Interpack

Packaging Analysis for Global Target Markets

BASF, Krones, Südpack and Tomra have collaborated to make PET-based multilayer packaging separable and recyclable.

Collaboration project gives proof of concept for closed recycling loop for PET-based multi-layer packaging.

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Multi-Layer Packaging Can Be Separated

The increasing demand for recyclates and the shortage of food-grade PET flakes pose challenges for batch quality and color consistency.

Repi offers various additives for recycling PET, which can be used, for example, to prevent the material from darkening.

Messe K-Kunststoffmesse

Additive

Compensating for Darkening in Recycled PET

New Plastic Heroes: The start-up ForPET worked with industry partners to develop a technology for the production of foamed rPET.

Sergey Nikitenko (in the photo) founded the start-up in 2021 with Mikhail Iakobachvili and Dmitrii Rastorguev. 

ForPET worked with industry partners to develop a technology for the production of foamed rPET.

New Plastic Heroes: ForPET

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Recycling: Foaming instead  of Dreaming

The Alpla Group can look back on a successful financial year 2022 in spite of the crisis. Sales of 5.1 billion euros exceeded the previous year’s figure by 27.5 percent.

The packaging specialist will continue to expand its production capacity in injection molding over the coming years.

Alpla Achieves Sales Record

Faerch and Erema realize closed loop for PET food packaging.

Packaging manufacturer Faerch, together with Erema, has succeeded in introducing a closed loop for PET food packaging. Catering companies and airlines are expected to be the biggest recipients.

From niche to must-have: That describes how plastics recycling has evolved in recent years. Faerch also contributed to this. As a plastic packaging manufacturer and EREMA customer in Denmark, Faerch is the first company in the world to successfully integrate the recycling of european post-consumer PET household pots, tubs and tray packaging into its own production process.

Faerch is recognized as a leading manufacturer of food packaging, largely made from PET thermoforming film. Referred to as trays, they are well suited to many applications, especially in the food sector, where food safety, shelf life and a clear view of the packaged product are needed. Faerch produces trays for ready meals, fresh meat, takeaway meals and packaging for dairy products a several of its locations in Europe. They supply well known food producers and trading companies around the world. The packaging must meet the highest quality standards for direct contact with food, and must meet special functional criteria, such as for transporting liquid food and when food is frozen or heated up in it.

The trays Faerch produces are fully recyclable and, depending on the PET type (CPET, MAPET or APET), are made of up to 100 percent recycled post-consumer PET (rPET). That is why Faerch is considered a pioneer in tray-to-tray recycling, also due to its cooperation with EREMA. This is because in comparison to bottle-to-bottle recycling, where the circular economy has been successfully well established for 20 years, closing the material loop of PET trays has lagged behind.

„For us it was clear that with purpose-specific modification of our flexible Vacurema technology, tray-to-tray recycling could become just as much of a success story. Faerch was our first customer to be as convinced of this as we were,“ says Christoph Wöss, Business Development Manager at Erema Group GmbH.

At Faerch‘s own recycling plant „4PET“ in the Netherlands, PET bales obtained from collection and sorting companies throughout Europe are sorted, washed and recycled. Both post-consumer rPET flakes and pellets are supplied to packaging manufacturers and reused in the company‘s own production. „This currently makes us the only integrated recycler in the world capable of recycling used household PET packaging on an industrial scale and turning them back into new trays,“ explains Thomas Bak Thellesen, Senior Director Group Sustainability & External Affairs.

He backs up this statement with some impressive figures: Trays from all over Europe are recycled to make 1.2 billion PCR PET trays per year. The aim is to quadruple the recycling capacity within the coming years. „Without any compromises in terms of food contact compliance and functional properties,“ as Thellesen emphasizes: „Quality and sustainability must go hand in hand for us, because this is the only way we can offer our customers circular packaging solutions and drive the change necessary to establish an infrastructure needed to achieve a real circular economy.“ To get the PET waste it needs, Faerch offers its own buyback models to customers who are able to collect the packaging again after use, such as airlines and catering companies. „For our production, this waste is a valuable raw material that we know is of the right quality.“

Faerch has been relying on the Vacurema system with Safe Flake technology from Austrian recycling machine manufacturer Erema for the recycling process for the trays since mid-2018. The special feature of this set-up is that decontamination, drying and IV treatment already take place on the flake in the vacuum reactor. Only then is the material fed into the extruder. This prevents hydrolytic and oxidative degradation of the melt in the extruder, which in turn is a prerequisite for highly clean, food contact compliant rPET trays with the best IV and color values.

The quality of the rPET pellets remains consistently high even if the parameters of the input material – such as moisture, mixture or bulk density – vary. In addition to these quality aspects, the financial arguments also clearly speak in favor of this recycling process. This is because both the total costs of acquisition and use (total costs of ownership) and the energy consumption are comparatively low. „The specific overall energy consumption of a Vacurema Prime system is only 0.295kWh/kg. This is one of the best energy efficiency values compared to conventional PET processing lines on the market,“ concludes Wöss.

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At Faerch‘s own recycling plant in the Netherlands, PET bales obtained from collection and sorting companies throughout Europe are sorted, washed and recycled.

Both post-consumer rPET flakes and pellets are supplied to packaging manufacturers and reused in the company‘s own production.

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