Engel has developed a new way to process plastic scrap as flakes on an injection molding machine straight after grinding. This innovation eliminates the pelletization step and significantly boosts the economics of plastics recycling. The key to consistently high product quality is to vent the plastic melt.

Test setup at the pilot plant in St. Valentin, Austria: for the two-stage process, Engel has combined a plasticizing screw with an injection screw.

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Venting in a Two-Stage Process Boosts the Efficiency of Recycling Processes

Spritzgießen

Kunststoffverarbeitung: Verfahren

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High-Quality Recycled Plastics Obtained Directly from Flakes

Organizers of the Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2022 have extended the entry deadline for all seven award categories until Friday 18 March 2022.

The entry deadline for all seven award categories is Friday 18 March 2022.

Entry Deadline Extended

SER North America is the second US plant built in Anderson, Indiana, by the Italian Sirmax Group. The plant is entirely dedicated to the production of recycled polypropylene from post-industrial waste.

SER North America is entirely dedicated to the production of recycled polypropylene from post-industrial waste.

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Sirmax Expands in North America

Covestro is collaborating with Fairphone, a Dutch social enterprise building a market for ethical smartphones, on the use of circular material solutions for its smartphones.

With partially recycled polycarbonates and thermoplastic polyurethanes (TPUs), Covestro is helping smartphone manufacturer Fairphone achieve its sustainability goals.

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Covestro Supports Circular Material Solutions for Smartphones

The global provider of advanced collection and sorting systems, celebrates its 50th anniversary and announces a “mission” for a world without waste.

Tomra founders Petter and Tore Planke in front of the company’s original logo.

Sortierer

Tomra Celebrates 50 Years

Repeats (Recycled PE at Scale) Group, a pan-European platform for LDPE recycling, made an investment in the Spanish recycling company Anviplas.

Aleix Vintró, CEO Anviplas, and Joan Vintró at the Navacles plant. An Intarema 1716 TVEplus from Erema is in operation there. 

Extrusionsanlagen

Anviplas Becomes Part of the Repeats Group

Proceeding on the target of commercializing chemical recycling of waste plastic, Neste is conducting a feasibility study to examine investing in capacity for processing liquefied waste plastic at its refinery in Porvoo, Finland.

Neste works on next step towards commercializing chemical recycling of waste plastic in Porvoo, Finland

Chemical Recycling of Waste Plastic

Texas-based Encina Announces $1.1 billion investment in new manufacturing facility in Pennsylvania.

Encina announced to invest USD 1.1 billion to build a new manufacturing facility in Point Township, Pennsylvania

Recycling

Umweltmanagement

Encina Announces USD 1.1 Billion Investment

The company’s new office will allow the company to more effectively service customers in the country’s western region.

 Michael Lambert (CFO, Vecoplan Group), Frank Boerjan (CEO, Vecoplan LLC), Werner Berens (CEO, Vecoplan Group) and the Mayor of Eastvale (l-r).

Vecoplan Opens New Location in California

Cannon Ergos is working with Boeing on moulding trials for the feasibility of using recycled carbon fiber for the fabrication of aircraft cabin interior sidewall panels.

Luftfahrt

Andere Werkstoffe

Faserverbundwerkstoffe

Cannon Ergos Collaborates with Boeing

Greenplast 2022: Reifenhäuser Blown Film shows recyclable All-PE film with digital product passport.

With EVO Ultra Fusion, fluff (film shreds) as well as all kinds of production waste and PCR material of the lowest quality can be processed into functional films for applications such as trash or mailing bags.

Blasfolienextrusion

Recyclable All-PE Film with Digital Product Passport

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.

Verbände, Institutionen, Messen

Dienstleistungen

VDMA: „Industry Is Well Positioned for 2022“

Heraeus Holding GmbH announced it has invested substantial equity to take a majority stake in perPETual Technologies, one of the world’s leading PET recycling companies.

Ambitious Target: To recycle 100 million used PET bottles per day by 2026.

Hereaus Joins PET Recycler

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

Balance sheet 2021/22: New growth in revenues with state-of-the-art recycling technologies

Manfred Hackl (CEO): „This past financial year, we again set several milestones.“

Erema: Large-Scale Plants Drive Growth

Joint Venture of Alpla and PTT Global Chemical

Start of Production at Thailand‘s Largest Plastics Recycling Plant

 With an annual production capacity of 45,000 tonnes of recycled PET and HDPE, Envicco is one of the largest recycling plants for these plastics in Asia.

30,000 of recycled, food-grade PET and 15,000 tonnes of recycled HDPE – the packaging and recycling specialist Alpla and the chemical company PTT Global Chemical (GC) have realized Thailand‘s largest plastics recycling plant of its kind. After around 18 months of construction, production is set to start at the Envicco joint venture. Located in an economic zone on the coast of the south-eastern province of Rayong, the plant is equipped with the latest recycling technology and production lines to manufacture high-quality plastic recyclates with approval from the USFDA.

The 30,000-square-metre plant is on a plot of land measuring a good 90,000 square metres at the Map Ta Phut Industrial Estate. There is, therefore, also space for future capacity expansions. ‚We have long-term plans to promote the bottle-to-bottle cycle not only here in Thailand, but across Asia and other regions around the world. Carbon emissions and waste can be reduced through optimized resource consumption,‘ emphasizes Dietmar Marin, Alpla Managing Director Recycling.

In early 2021, the Alpla announced that it would invest an average of 50 million euros a year until 2025 in the ongoing expansion of its recycling activities. In particular, it plans to globalize its activities in the area of high-quality recyclates to close the materials cycle in as many regions as possible. In total, the annual production capacity of Alpla´s recycling companies and cooperations around the world amounts to approximately 203,000 tonnes of rPET (recycled PET) and 74,000 tonnes of rHDPE (recycled HDPE).

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Alpla and PTT Global Chemical have realised Envicco, Thailand‘s largest plastics recycling plant of its kind with an annual capacity of 45,000 tonnes of recyclate.

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