In 2011, China revealed plans to put in place a “complete and advanced” recycling infrastructure that will recycle 70% of its major waste products by 2015.It also said it will adhere to a European standard of quality of paper, ...
Tags: Packaging, packaging event
Momentum Recycling opened the doors to its new glass recycling plant in Salt Lake City. Dozens of customers, suppliers, citizens and local government officials gathered to celebrate the grand opening, the company said. Momentum ...
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Renewable energy specialist Biogen, a 50/50 joint venture between Kier and Bedfordia, has inked an agreement with the city of Edinburgh and Midlothian Councils to design andc. The proposed anaerobic digestion (AD) plant will process ...
Tags: Biogen, Food Waste Recycling Plant, Food
Thai manufacturer of PET resins, Indorama Ventures (IVL) has announced plans to invest $190m to construct a new manufacturing plant adjacent to its existing site near the Tennessee River at Decatur, Morgan County, US. Construction of the ...
Tags: PET resins, fibers, Packaging
The landmark comes nine months after the 15m facility was opened by former waste minister Lord Taylor of Holbeach. Continuum is now reported to be responsible for processing more than half of the UK's bottle-grade rPET and has helped ...
Tags: Coke, PET recycling, plastic bottles
Australian Paper will start construction of its new $90 million paper recycling plant at Maryvale in Victoria later this month. “Last week's ground-breaking ceremony marks the first stage of construction and Australian Paper ...
Tags: paper mill, Maryvale, premium recycled pulp
McNaney came up with the Filabot as a cheap alternative to the spools of filament used by 3D printers. Filabot can take scrap plastic, including plastic from 3D objects, and grinds, melts, and re-extrudes it back into printable feedstock. ...
UK-based DS Smith Recycling is planning to close its materials recycling facility in Southampton which was bought from SCA Packaging in July 2012. Following its activities review in the wake of the SCA deal, DS Smith Recycling has ...
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Automotive batteries supplier,Johnson Controls has opened a new $150m automotive battery recycling plant in South Carolina, US. The new Florence Recycling Center is expected to recycle 132,000 metric tons per year, or the equivalent of ...
Tags: automotive battery, automotive, battery, battery recycling
Blown plastic film and bag manufacturer Petoskey Plastics is all set to invest$16m in a bid to expand three of its US facilities located in Hartford City,Indiana;Morristown,Tennessee;and Petoskey,Michigan. The company will direct majority ...
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Conveyors have a wide range of applications, anything from chemical ingredients to food or industrial waste. They are what connect the different parts of the process that take raw material through to finished product.One of the necessary ...
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Innovative Waste Kaikoura (IWK) is certainly living up to its name, with more and more useable and potentially marketable material being produced at the Scarborough St site. The first stage of the glass recycling plant, a conveyor belt to ...
Closed Loop Recycling plans to invest £12m, in a bid to double its capacity and create 100 new jobs. This is being done by the plastic bottle recycling plant as part of a series of government-backed announcements aiming to showcase ...
Tags: plastic bottle recycling, low-carbon investment, carbon emissions
Midwest Exchange Enterprises has announced that it will set up a new plant for recycling of food-grade post-consumer PET. Likely to be situated beside its existing recycling plant, the new facility spreads over an area of 120,000ft2 with ...
Tags: Recycle Food, recycling of food-grade, post-consumer PET
European plastic pallet manufacturers Cabka and Innova Packaging System (IPS) have merged under the newly-founded Cabka Group, in a bid to improve their market positions. According to IPS, the Cabka and IPS labels will remain intact, ...