Plastics

Coexpan presents CorePET, the new 100% rPET tray for different applications, decontaminated for food contact use.

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 is convinced that digitalisation in plastics recycling is an important pacemaker on the way to implementing a circular economy.

According to Erema, the new Vacunite technology offers efficient decontamination, best colour values, top IV stability and low energy consumption.

“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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

ExxonMobil and Reifenhäuser have collaborated to make heavy duty sacks (HDS) using multi-cycle recycledpolyethylene (PE) from prior heavy duty sacks, without compromising performance.