Recycling

Alpla CEO Philipp Lehner

Pharma and recycling expansion, new markets and products: Alpla invested in further development and growth in 2023. The global packaging and recycling specialist closed the financial year with turnover of €4.7 billion. Lower material and energy costs paired with exchange rate factors resulted in a moderate drop in...

Multi-sensor sorting system for positive detection of clear PET in pre- and post-sorting

Croatia's accession to the European Union has also brought the topic of recycling into focus. The aim here is to implement the EU's waste directives and current targets and, above all, to drive forward the circular economy at national level. The EU target of recycling more than 65 percent of municipal waste by 2035...

ZSK twin screw extruders from Coperion ensure especially energy-efficient, continuous reactor loading in chemical plastics recycling

Coperion will deliver a “ZSK Mc18” twin screw extruder and corresponding peripherals for a "Plastics2chemicals" (P2C) plant that Belgian waste management company Indaver is building to chemically recycle plastic waste. The P2C plant is currently under construction in Antwerp, Belgium and is expected to annually...

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

Packaging and recycling specialist Alpla is building a state-of-the-art recycling plant in the South African coastal town of Ballito, north of Durban. The plant, with an output of 35,000 tonnes of recycled PET material, marks the company’s entry into the African recycling market. Construction will start in summer 2023...

The deinking plant in Louth removes the ink from printed PE films and processes the material into granules

Coveris opens a new "ReCover" recycling plant in Louth, UK, for the recycling of printed polyethylene films. "ReCover" is a recently established business unit of the packaging manufacturer that produces high-quality recyclates from plastic waste in a pioneering process. The new facility in Louth is the second in the...

Sabic, Estiko Packaging Solutions and Coldwater Prawns of Norway have created a highly sustainable new packaging pouch made from a multi-layer film using a circular certified random polymer grade

Sabic has joined forces with Estiko Packaging Solutions and Coldwater Prawns of Norway to develop and implement a highly sustainable new packaging pouch for frozen prawns. The pouch is made from a multi-layer film produced by Estiko Packaging Solutions using a circular certified random polymer grade of Sabic PP Qrystal...

The secondary raw material obtained from the chemical recycling of plastic waste is similar to oil in many properties and is a fully-fledged substitute for fossil resources

In the mechanical recycling of plastics, not all material streams can be captured. For example, multilayer films from food packaging cannot be separated and reused in this way. In 2019, the collection of lightweight packaging from the Dual System recycled only 0.5 million tons out of a total volume of 1.2 tons. It is...

Signing the agreement to invest in APK

Chemical company Lyondell-Basell and Kirkbi, Lego's family-owned holding and investment company, have signed an agreement to invest in APK. APK specializes in a solvent-based recycling technology for low-density polyethylene (LDPE for short). APK aims to increase recycling of multilayer flexible packaging, which today...

Plastic granules from recycled ocean plastic

BASF Venture Capital invests in Oceanworks, a sustainable plastic solutions provider that brings traceability and transparency through digitalization to recycled plastics. Oceanworks is based in the U.S. and offers a powerful platform for brands looking to reliably secure high-quality sources of ocean, ocean-bound, and...

By establishing a joint venture called PET Recycling Team Targu Mures, Alpla and companies Ecohelp and UPT are investing in the construction of a recycling plant for PET

The Alpla Group, the global packaging solutions and recycling specialist, is investing in the construction of a recycling plant in Targu Mures, Romania as part of a joint venture with its partners. The plastic granulate recycled there in the future will come from PET bottles collected from household waste and will be...