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.

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Alpla Achieves Sales Record

Santa Barbara County’s Resource Center efficiently sorts both municipal solid waste and single stream using the same circuit with Tomra‘s Autosort units to successfully reduce landfilling.

The Santa Barbara County Resource Center converts commercial and residential waste into recyclables by recovering recyclable materials, converting organics into landscape nutrients, and generating renewable energy in the process.

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Quick-Change Mixed Waste Processing

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

Evonik is pooling its expertise and integrating its alcoholates business into the Catalysts Business Line.

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Expansion of The Catalysts Business Line

At Plastindia 2023, Starlinger puts the focus on efficient plastics recycling and sustainable packaging solutions.

Saves costs and energy: the new recoSTAR PET art recycling system for food-grade rPET.

Decontamination at the Highest Level

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.

Polyethylenterephthalat

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Thermoplaste

Alpla Starts rPET Production in Romania

Plastipack Limited, Hersteller hochwertiger Poolabdeckungen, zerkleinert und recycelt seine Kunststofffolienabfälle inhouse mithilfe einer zweistufigen Zerkleinerungsanlage von Weima.

Production scrap from pool cover production at Plastipack Limited.

Zerkleinerungsmaschinen

Pool Covers without Waste

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).

Revalyu Builds Major Facility in the USA

CatC technology can be used to recover monomers from sorted plastic waste, especially PMMA. NextChem believes the technology could also be suitable for polystyrene.

NextChem Acquires CatC Technology

Neste, Uponor, Wastewise and Borealis enable chemical recycling of hard-to-recycle plastic waste into new high-quality plastic pipes.

The project demonstrates that plastic waste that is difficult to recycle can be turned into high-quality plastic products through chemical recycling.

Kunststoff-Rohre

Halbzeuge und Zwischenprodukte

Kunststoff-Halbzeuge

Technik Trend

Second Life for Discarded PEX Pipes

A Danish manufacturer of wind turbines has found a way to completely recycle the turbines‘ rotor blades.

A new process should make it possible to completely recycle wind turbine rotor blades in the future.

Verbundwerkstoffe / Werkstoffverbunde

New Technology Disassembles Rotor Blades

Looper Textile Co.intends to collect, sort and sell used and unwanted garments and textiles and thereby extend the highest use of these valuable resources.

The waste management company Remondis and the Swedish fashion retailer H&M are pulling together to recycle clothes.

Fasern

Kunststofffasern

Verstärkungsstoffe

H&M and Remondis Create Joint Venture

LyondellBasell and Nexus Circular sign long-term supply agreement. Nexus will supply LyondellBasell with 24,000 tons of recycled feedstock per year.

Bales of waste plastic film ready to be processed.

LyondellBasell Secures Recycled Feedstock from Nexus Circular

Amazon is looking for early-stage start-ups with a focus on recycling: the second Amazon Sustainability Accelerator is starting, and European companies can still apply until March 17.

Amazon Sustainability Accelerator 2023: the deadline for applications is 17 March 2023 and successful applicants will be announced in the Spring.

Start up

Wirtschaft

Unternehmen und Unternehmer

Amazon Looks for Innovative Recycling-Start-ups

Südpack sees it as its responsibility to contribute towards the circular economy and aims to develop into a zero-waste company.

Sustainability can have many faces: mechanical and chemical recycling, design for recycling, reduction of the CO2 footprint, etc.

Recyclable Materials Management Is the Way to the Goal

Zero Waste – Utopia or Reality?

Ina Hannen is New Chief Financial Officer

The Supervisory Board of Vecoplan AG has named Ina Hannen Chief Financial Officer effective 1 October 2022.

The Supervisory Board of Vecoplan AG has named Ina Hannen Chief Financial Officer effective 1 October 2022. She will be responsible for Finance, Controlling and IT and work with Werner Berens, who has been Board member and CEO of the Vecoplan Group since 2012.

Ina Hannen succeeds Michael Lambert, who has been a member of the company since 2014. Mr Lambert was responsible for commercial operations and managed Vecoplan AG’s European subsidiaries. Together with Werner Berens, he served in the Management Board since February 2019. During this period the Vecoplan Group was reorganised and made fit for the future. In 2021 the company posted the highest level of incoming orders and highest earnings in its history.

Ms Hannen has a degree in economics and more than 30 years of experience in management. She began her career with the auditing and consultancy company KPMG Deutsche Treuhand in Frankfurt and Chicago. In 2000 she was appointed department head at ALSO Germany, formerly Actebis, a distributor of IT and telecommunications products.

For six years, she was head of accounting and taxation at Klöckner Pentaplast, a plastics manufacturer, and for ten years she was Vice President for finance and financial operations with KP Germany Erste GmbH. Later she served as commercial director at Baettr Holding GmbH, a manufacturer of onshore and offshore turbine components for the wind energy industry. Before coming to Vecoplan AG she was commercial director at Kabel Premium Pulp & Paper GmbH.

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Ina Hannen has been CFO at Vecoplan since October.

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