Recycling
The Advanced Recycling Conference 2025 (ARC for short) is setting the stage for innovation. The event is renowned for its unique blend of hands-on recycling solutions and cutting-edge research in advanced recycling technologies. Taking place on November 19-20 in Cologne, Germany, and online, ARC 2025 continues to be the benchmark for innovation in recycling. As the industry faces increasing...
The Reiling Group is one of the leading recycling specialists in Germany for glass, plastic (PET), wood and photovoltaic modules. Its portfolio also includes the production and marketing of foam glass gravel and Revitro (decorative glass). For more than 100 years, Reiling has endeavored to collect and efficiently recycle valuable materials, thus making an important contribution to environmental...
Pharma and recycling expansion, new markets and products: Alpla invested in further development and growth in 2023. The global packaging and recycling specialist closed the financial year with turnover of €4.7 billion. Lower material and energy costs paired with exchange rate factors resulted in a moderate drop in turnover. Value added remained stable. While there was strong growth in Africa...
Croatia's accession to the European Union has also brought the topic of recycling into focus. The aim here is to implement the EU's waste directives and current targets and, above all, to drive forward the circular economy at national level. The EU target of recycling more than 65 percent of municipal waste by 2035 paves the way for a sustainable circular economy. An example from the field of...
Coperion will deliver a “ZSK Mc18” twin screw extruder and corresponding peripherals for a "Plastics2chemicals" (P2C) plant that Belgian waste management company Indaver is building to chemically recycle plastic waste. The P2C plant is currently under construction in Antwerp, Belgium and is expected to annually transform 30,000 tons of so-called end-of-life plastics into high-quality basic...
Packaging and recycling specialist Alpla is building a state-of-the-art recycling plant in the South African coastal town of Ballito, north of Durban. The plant, with an output of 35,000 tonnes of recycled PET material, marks the company’s entry into the African recycling market. Construction will start in summer 2023 and completion is planned for autumn 2024. In total, Alpla is investing around...
Coveris opens a new "ReCover" recycling plant in Louth, UK, for the recycling of printed polyethylene films. "ReCover" is a recently established business unit of the packaging manufacturer that produces high-quality recyclates from plastic waste in a pioneering process. The new facility in Louth is the second in the packaging company's portfolio. "When we started to develop 'ReCover', our ambition...
Sabic has joined forces with Estiko Packaging Solutions and Coldwater Prawns of Norway to develop and implement a highly sustainable new packaging pouch for frozen prawns. The pouch is made from a multi-layer film produced by Estiko Packaging Solutions using a circular certified random polymer grade of Sabic PP Qrystal with an ocean bound plastic (for short OBP) content of around 60 percent...
In the mechanical recycling of plastics, not all material streams can be captured. For example, multilayer films from food packaging cannot be separated and reused in this way. In 2019, the collection of lightweight packaging from the Dual System recycled only 0.5 million tons out of a total volume of 1.2 tons. It is also necessary to return the remaining volume of 700,000 tons to the cycle...
Chemical company Lyondell-Basell and Kirkbi, Lego's family-owned holding and investment company, have signed an agreement to invest in APK. APK specializes in a solvent-based recycling technology for low-density polyethylene (LDPE for short). APK aims to increase recycling of multilayer flexible packaging, which today accounts for the majority of mixed plastic waste from the consumer sector.
