Plastics
Plastics Recycling Show Europe opens on 10 May
| Thousands of professionals involved in plastics recycling and the sustainable use of plastics are expected to attend this year’s event, which is set to be more than 50% bigger than ever before, with over 320 exhibitors and more than 60 expert speakers.
Study: Solvolysis best method for recycling biocomposites from aeronautics sector
| During the study, 12 methods were analysed for six different biocomposites. Solvolysis and pyrolysis were the two most promising alternatives tested in large-scale production at a pilot plant.
New PP-based recyclable blister concept
| Blister packaging consists of plastic and aluminum, which are joined in a sealing process. The packaging is therefore often lost for material recycling. A new concept from Südpack, on the other hand, consists of mono-material.
Conference dedicated to tyre recycling
| The European Recycling Industries’ Confederation (EuRIC) gathered around 100 participants, from policymakers, recyclers and NGOs in Brussels on 18 April 2023 for its first conference dedicated to tyre recycling.
Program for Plastics Recycling Show Europe
| The organisers of Plastics Recycling Show Europe, taking place at RAI Amsterdam, the Netherlands on 10-11 May 2023, have published the event’s full conference program featuring over 60 speakers.
PET recycling with high purity at Reiling
| For PET recycling with high purity, Reiling relies on sound quality inspection with sorting and material analysis systems from Sesotec.
High-quality polyester textile products from valorisation of CO2 waste streams.
| Aimplas participates in a new European project bringing to the market high-quality polyester textile products from the valorisation of CO2 waste streams.
Andritz, Nouvelles Fibres Textiles and Pellenc cooperate on textile recycling
| The three companies want to build the first industrial automatic textile sorting line in France, combining automated sorting technology and recycling technology.
Polykar expands recycling capacities in North America
| Recycling plastics in a way that is both economically successful and makes ecological sense is something that was hardly imaginable for many just a few years ago.
Textiles recycling: the sorting challenge
| Until now, only a tiny fraction of discarded textiles is recycled.
Novafiber starts up textile recycling and airlay lines from Andritz
| Andritz has delivered, installed, and commissioned a mechanical textile recycling line and an airlay line at Novafiber’s nonwovens production mill in Palín, Guatemala.
Neste completes second series of runs at Porvoo refinery
| Neste has successfully concluded its second series of industrial-scale processing runs with liquefied waste plastic at its refinery in Porvoo, Finland.
Plastics supply chain in Europe continues to push for greater legal certainty for recycled...
| There is obvious urgency behind the recent meeting of 31 trade associations for the EU to be clear on how it legally views chemical recycling and how recycled content is tracked in plastic products.
Keeping pace with high-quality recycled resin
| Production of recycled plastic content is far from meeting demand, posing major industry challenges.
