Plastics

For PET recycling with high purity, Reiling relies on sound quality inspection with sorting and material analysis systems from Sesotec.

Aimplas participates in a new European project bringing to the market high-quality polyester textile products from the valorisation of CO2 waste streams.

The three companies want to build the first industrial automatic textile sorting line in France, combining automated sorting technology and recycling technology.

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.

Until now, only a tiny fraction of discarded textiles is recycled.

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 has successfully concluded its second series of industrial-scale processing runs with liquefied waste plastic at its refinery in Porvoo, Finland.

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.

Production of recycled plastic content is far from meeting demand, posing major industry challenges.

Sorema has announced that a new recycling plant for post-consumer PET bottles has been installed in the Democratic Republic of Congo at OK Plast factory, in cooperation with Starlinger.

Installed plastic recycling capacity has grown by 17% in 2021 in EU27+3, boosted by an estimated €1.75 billion investment.