As the demand for plastic sorting solutions continues to soar, C, a member of The Bühler Group, and US-based National Recovery Technologies (NRT) are entering a strategic commercial agreement to offer plastics recyclers a complete ...
Pan-European investment firm Aurelius Group has purchased UK-based compounder and recycler of post-use rigid plastics Regain Polymers Holdings. Previously owned by Chamonix Private Equity, Regain provides plastic recycling services to ...
Baler and recycling engineering firm Middleton Engineering has installed a new swan neck conveyor at Biffa Polymers’ Wilton International Petrochemical Complex in Redcar, UK. Biffa is an integrated waste management business that is ...
Opening the second day of the free PDM conference, which returns to Telford on 16 and 17 June, Terry Scuoler, chief executive, EEF (the manufacturers' organisation) will outline industry's view of the UK's role in Europe. His keynote speech ...
SPI: The Plastics Industry Trade Association joined the University of Massachusetts Lowell (UMass Lowell) Plastics Engineering Department recently on the show floor of NPE2015: The International Plastics Showcase in Orlando, Fla., to launch ...
Environmental Recycling Technologies (ERT) has signed an agreement with Metallis Recycling (MRL) to form a 50-50 joint venture in the UK. ERT will give the JV exclusive rights to manufacture flat sheet using its proprietary powder ...
Tags: Environmental Recycling Technologies, Metallis Recycling
Canada’s recycling rate of post-consumer plastic packaging has increased by 9% in a single year, according to the Canadian Plastics Industry Association (CPIA). The country reportedly collected over 311 million kilograms of ...
Tags: plastic packaging, used plastics, Packaging
US-based environmentally conscious bottled-water company EARTH2O will use recycled material sourced from Orpet to create a closed-loop manufacturing system to infinitely reuse Oregon’s recycled goods. EARTH2O is considered to be ...
Tags: EARTH2O, water bottles, Packaging
Mid-market pan-European investor Aurelius has acquired Europe's leading ethical plastic bottle recycler Eco Plastics for an undisclosed amount. With this investment, Aurelius will supply its highly specialised operational improvement ...
Tags: Plastic Bottle, Eco Plastics, Agriculture
The manifesto focuses on enabling the plastics recycling sector to meet the government’s low carbon manufacturing ambitions, which are central to meeting aspirations of a circular economy and resource efficiency. A series of ...
Tags: BPF Recycling, Packaging
Megaport, a plastics film and packaging company based in Bulgaria, has opened an €1.84m plastics waste recycling facility at Veliko Turnovo, a city in the western part of Bulgaria. Equipped with advanced recycling machinery, which ...
Tags: Megaport, Recycling Facility, Packaging
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 ...
Tags: Consolidated Container, Ecoplast
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 ...
The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR), representing over 90% of North America's post-consumer plastic recycling capacity, is encouraging municipal recycling programs to promote 'the Caps On Bottles' to take advantage of ...
Tags: Plastic Packaging, Packaging, Printing