Rethink Plastic alliance stated that the European Commission’s new tax on non-recycled plastic packaging waste within the new EU budget might fail to address the plastic pollution crisis. The proposal, unveiled in the Multiannual ...
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Juice maker Eckes-Granini Finland has relaunched its Marli Natur juice range in Elopak’s newly introduced Pure-Pak Sense Aseptic cartons Following installation of a new aseptic filling line E-PS120A at its Turku production site, the ...
Tokyo-based Solar Frontier – the largest manufacturer of CIS (copper indium selenium) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar modules – has provided solar panels to Projecto YOSI, an organization working to keep Bolivia's Salar de ...
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America’s National Council of Textile Organisations (NCTO) has commended the US Senate for passing two important pieces of trade legislation H.R. 1295 and H.R. 644, addressing trade preference programmes and customs enforcement. As ...
Cardia Bioplastics has secured a two-year supply contract with Cleanaway and has received its first year order to deliver 7.8 million Cardia Compostable kitchen tidy bags and 50,000 Kitchen Tidy Bins for commercial roll out. Cleanaway ...
Linpac calls the UK home. But it has had a manufacturing site in Bunbury, Perth since 2013 and in 2015 it will have a new one in Melbourne. With a site on both the east and west sides of Australia, Linpac intends to supply the latest design ...
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Norwegian carton producer Elopak has developed the Pure-Pak sense carton that has been designed to help combat food waste. The easy-to-fold carton line claims to enable users to fold the carton and squeeze out more of the product from the ...
Tags: food waste, easy-to-fold carton, Agriculture
For third-quarter 2014, specialty metal and chemical products firm 5N Plus Inc of Montreal, Québec, Canada has reported revenue of $114.4m, down 16% on $136.6m last quarter but up 5% on $108.6m a year ago. “We reported ...
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Due to be introduced on January 1st 2015, the new waste regulations mean that businesses, including shopping centres and retail outlets in England and Wales, will be required to separate waste paper, metal, plastic and glass for collection. ...
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This represents an increase of 3.2% compared with 2012 (8.1bn), and a decrease of 32% compared with 2006 (12.2bn), when reporting began. The number of thin-gauge (single-use) bags used per month by supermarket customers increased from ...
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Specialty metal and chemical products firm 5N Plus Inc of Montreal, Québec, Canada has signed a new US$125m senior secured multi-currency revolving syndicated credit facility that will replace its existing US$100m senior secured ...
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For second-quarter 2014, specialty metal and chemical products firm 5N Plus Inc of Montreal, Québec, Canada has reported revenue of $136.6m, down 4% on $142.4m last quarter but up 21% on $112.6m a year ago. 5N Plus provides ...
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Consolidated Container (CCC), an investment arm of Bain Capital in the plastic packaging sector, has acquired plastic recycling companies Envision Plastics and Ecoplast from their founders Massoud Rad and Parham Yedidsion. Both the ...
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UK-based recycling company Viridor has commenced the construction of new £12.5m plastics recycling facility (PRF) in Rochester. Stadler UK, which has designed the plant, is responsibile for delivering the project. The new PRF has ...
Stadler UK is responsible for delivering the project which will result in a new plastics recycling facility capable of processing 75,000 tons of mixed plastics each year into high quality clean plastic grades ready to be used in the ...