Styrenics Circular Solutions (SCS), the value chain initiative to increase the circularity of styrenic polymers, today announced that CEDAP, Compagnie Européenne Des Applications Plastiques, joins the organisation.

SCS develops solutions to combine the benefits of polystyrene in Form, Fill and Seal (FFS) dairy packaging with circularity

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CEDAPJoins Styrenics Circular Solution

Chinaplas 2022, to be held from April 25 to 28, will bring together more than 4000 exhibitors of the plastics and rubber industries from all over the world to launch innovative green solutions.

The 3rd Chinaplas x CPRJ Plastics Recycling and Circular Economy Conference and Showcase will be held one day prior to the show in Shanghai (photo from last year’s event).

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The Theme Color of the Show Is Green

Over the last year, the German branch of the Association of Plastics Manufacturers, PlasticsEurope Deutschland, consistently advocated the technology of chemical recycling. Meanwhile, chemical recycling has not only been criticized by environmental organizations but also from parts of the industry. Kunststoffe interviewed Ingemar Bühler, CEO of the Association, about this criticism and the competition between mechanical and chemical recycling. In the interview, Bühler also addresses further requirements for a circular economy with plastics and explains why he considers a label for plastics products a sensible idea.

Interview with Ingemar Bühler from PlasticsEurope Deutschland

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Streifinger, Florian

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“There’s No Point in Arguing over Chemical versus Mechanical Recycling”

Full order books make for optimistic outlook, but there is also cause for concern.

At around 60 percent, the EU-27 countries remain the most important customer market for German waste and recycling technology.

VDMA: „Industry Is Well Positioned for 2022“

The aim of the forum was to furnish new tools and methods for the design, use, recycling and re-use of sustainable packaging. Over 400 participants and 46 speakers, including 20 from abroad attended the event.

Impression of the debut of Packaging Speaks Green in 2020.

Packaging Speaks Green

High level of attendance at the world‘s largest trade fair for environmental technologies; Key topic: using and reusing resources efficiently

2984 exhibitors and around 119,000 visitors confirmed the fair as the most important platform for environmental technologies.

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IFAT: Focus on Closed Cycles

Erema enters a new dimension with large-scale recycling plants. Up to 40,000 tonnes per year of rPET can now be produced. The first plant of this size has been shipped to Brazil.

The reactor of the Vacurema T large-scale plant almost reaches the roof of the new Erema production hall, which was commissioned in 2021.

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XXL Recycling Plant for Brazil

Additives manufacturer Milliken has developed viscosity modifiers specifically for recycled polypropylene (rPP). The products, called DeltaFlow, improve the flow behavior of rPP for extrusion and injection molding processes, according to the company.

The modifiers allow recycled PP to be processed at lower temperatures. Among other things, this reduces cycle times during injection molding.

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Improved Processing of Recycled PP

The growing demand for plastic recycling directly reflects the machine sales for Polystar. By the end of April 2022, a total of over 110 recycling machines will have been shipped within 12 months – twice as many compared to last year.

The new factory in Sinji industrial park is the third Polystar manufacturing facility in Taiwan.

Sales Doubled for Polystar in 2021

Together, the two companies want to tackle the challenge of plastic packaging waste and its recycling.

The partnership between Borealis and Reclay aims to accelerate the shift to a circular plastics economy.

Borealis and Reclay Establish Strategic Partnership

Researchers from the University of Birmingham, U.K., and Duke University, U.S., have created a new family of polymers from sustainable sources that retain all of the same qualities as common plastics, but are also degradable and mechanically recyclable.

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Recyclable Plastics Based on Sugars

Aimplas has completed a project to recover end-of-life fishing nets and other marine litter to manufacture furniture made of 100 % recycled plastic.

At an event at the Innsomnia facilities in the Port of Valencia, a bench was unveiled measuring 6 m long and weighing more than 800 kg. It is made of recycled plastic profiles with 15 % fishing nets and other marine litter.

Marine Litter Furniture for the Marina of Valencia

BariQ for Techno and Advanced Industries celebrates the signing for constructing a new PET bottle-to-bottle recycling plant that will feature the latest plastic sorting systems from Tomra Recycling in Giza Governorate, Egypt.

On February 13, BariQ officially announced and celebrated the construction of a new bottle-to-bottle recycling facility in Giza Governorate, Egypt.

New PET Bottle-to-Bottle Recycling Plant in Egypt

Conventional PET recycling lines are based on single-screw extruders with maximum output rates of two and a half tons per hour. Since 2004, KraussMaffei has been researching a process to significantly increase these quantities with the help of glycol and the use of a twin-screw extruder. Given the current high demand for rPET materials, this technology is becoming increasingly important.

Glycolic Depolymerization versus Mechanical Bottle-to-Bottle Recycling

Glycol Turns the Extruder into a Turbo

In addition to mechanical recycling, chemical recycling is increasingly coming into focus for more challenging plastic streams. This article provides an overview of different recycling processes – and the challenges that arise, particularly in the area of food packaging as a result of regulations or the cost-effectiveness of the process.

Chemical recyclers and raw material producers rely heavily on processes that are covered by the collective term thermal conversion, which includes pyrolysis.

How Chemical and Mechanical Recycling Complement Each Other

Colleagues or Competitors?

European Plastics Converters Joins Styrenics Circular Solutions

Styrenics Circular Solutions (SCS), the value chain initiative to increase the circularity of styrenic polymers, welcomed European Plastics Converters (EuPC) as new member.

EuPC is the professional representative body of 55.000 plastics converters in Europe, whose activity embraces all sectors of the plastics converting industry, including recycling.

Their members include national plastics organizations, as well as sector organizations within the plastics converting industry.

Jens Kathmann, Secretary-General of SCS, commented: “We are very pleased to welcome EuPC on board. Converters are on the front line when it comes to our whole value chain’s mission to fulfil the intrinsic circular potential of styrenics. Individual converter companies already make up an important part of the SCS team and it greatly increases our momentum to have EuPC’s participation as we move forward.” Alexandre Dangis, EuPC Managing Director, said: “EuPC welcomes and supports the transition to a stronger and more circular plastics economy where all plastic waste resources are used in a sustainable way. Styrenics are an important part of the plastic industry’s goal to achieve the 2025 European Union recycling targets. Our membership of SCS allows us to further improve our active role in this drive and build on developing additional plastic circular business models in Europe.”

EuPC European Plastics Converters 

https://www.plasticsconverters.eu

EuPC membership strengthens the converters’ contribution to the circularity mission of SCS

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