Plastics
Lindner: Update for Micromat Shredder
| At K 2019 the next generation of Lindner’s Micromat has been presented along with an additional model and a new and improved universal cutting system.
Coexpan launches first 100% r-PET food grade sheet
| Coexpan presents CorePET, the new 100% rPET tray for different applications, decontaminated for food contact use.
Recycling system for film production waste
| The new inhouse recycling system Intarema ZeroWastePro, which Erema presented for the first time at K 2019, is specially designed for PE and PP film production waste processed in inline or offline.
Erema: New digital assistance systems and BluPort customer platform
| Erema is convinced that digitalisation in plastics recycling is an important pacemaker on the way to implementing a circular economy.
New bottle-to-bottle technology by Erema
| According to Erema, the new Vacunite technology offers efficient decontamination, best colour values, top IV stability and low energy consumption.
“Unavoidable” technological advances in plastics recycling
| “The alarm bells are ringing louder and louder” for plastics recyclers amid worrying economic developments and wider uncertainties, warned BIR Plastics Committee Chairman Henk Alssema of Netherlands-based Vita Plastics in his introductory remarks to the body’s latest meeting in Budapest on October 14.
Fiji Water commits to 100% recycled plastic in all bottles by 2025
| FIJI Water has announced a multifaceted initiative to transform its use of plastic while promoting a circular economy. The plan is highlighted by an aggressive timetable to make all plastic bottles from 100 percent recycled plastic (rPET) by 2025, with 20 percent rPET in bottles next year.
Collation shrink films with recycled polyethylene
| Continuing an ongoing collaboration of almost 20 years, ExxonMobil and Windmöller & Hölscher (W&H) will demonstrate a 40-micron, 5-layer polyolefin dedicated (POD) collation shrink film, which includes 30 percent recycled polyethylene (PE) at K2019.
Measuring the polymer composition directly at the recycling machine
| The demand for quality in plastics recycling is increasing constantly. Achieving a circular economy for plastics relies on higher proportions of recycled pellets being used in end products - and increasingly in challenging consumer goods.
DSM: Bio- and/or recycled-based alternatives for engineering plastics
| Royal DSM has announces at the K-Show that its engineering plastics business will offer a full alternative range of its existing portfolio based on bio- and/or recycled-based materials by 2030.
Erema opens Circonomic Centre
| Plastics recycling, the circular economy and successful examples of closed plastics cycles are the focus of attention at EREMA's Circonomic Centre, which was opened in outdoor area FG 09.1.
Heavy duty sacks made with multi-cycle recycled PE
| ExxonMobil and Reifenhäuser have collaborated to make heavy duty sacks (HDS) using multi-cycle recycledpolyethylene (PE) from prior heavy duty sacks, without compromising performance.
New shredder-extruder combination by Pure Loop
| The shredder-extruder recycling technology provider PURE LOOP has added new system types to its ISEC evo series and now offers high output alternatives in the medium to high throughput range.
Borealis and Neste begin strategic co-operation
| Borealis and Neste have announced a strategic co-operation to accelerate circularity and bioeconomy in plastics.
