Fortum Circo approved for EU Toy Safety Standard
Fortum’s plastic recyclate Fortum Circo, produced from post-consumer plastic waste, has been approved to be compliant with the EU Toy Safety Standard EN 71-3.
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Plastics Recycling Awards Europe entry deadline extended to 13 January 2023
Organisers of the Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2023 have extended the entry deadline for all seven award categories until Friday 13 January 2023. The judging panel for the 2023 awards has also been revealed.
Sumitomo (SHI) Demag joins the R-Cycle Community
Sumitomo (SHI) Demag is convinced that a broad collaboration within the whole value chain of plastic packaging will gain the biggest impact to transform the linear to a circular economy.
The next generation transport packaging solution enabling the Circular Economy
SABIC and Cabka collaborate to create next generation transport packaging solution, enabling the Circular Economy
Elix Polymers and Ayúdame3D join forces to produce solidarity prostheses using recovered ABS
Elix Polymers has collaborated with Repsol and Leitat on a sociotechnological project with Ayúdame3D, a Spanish social startup that promotes the social value of technology through awareness-raising programs to help people with disabilities thanks to 3D printing.
Vecoplan presents a cleaning process for plastics recycling
Cleanikum, Vecoplan’s demonstration and test facility, enables customers to run cleaning trials with film waste and thin-walled hard plastics made of polyolefins.
Stadler designs and installs state-of-the-art light packaging sorting plant for Tbm
Stadler has designed the facility to automatically sort light plastic packaging and Limex, an environmentally friendly, limestone based material developed and produced by Tbm
Amcor drives progress on advanced recycling materials for food and healthcare markets
Amcor has announced a five-year deal with ExxonMobil to purchase certified-circular polyethylene material in support of its target to achieve 30% recycled material across its portfolio by 2030.
Bioplastics industry set to engage with political stakeholders on upcoming legislation
At the 17th annual European Bioplastics (EUBP) Conference, which took place on 6/7 December in Berlin, industry experts discussed the latest innovations in the bioplastics sector and drove the debate on most recent political developments.
The European Biopolymer Summit 2023
ACI’s 9th European Biopolymer Summit will be taking place in London, UK, on 8th - 9th February 2023.
Cadel Deinking is now Keycycle Deinking
Erema Group subsidiary Keycycle fully integrates innovative deinking process for printed plastics into its product portfolio
Vecoplan helps processors to implement all stages of the circular economy
To remain competitive, more and more processors are taking the recycling of plastics into their own hands. Vecoplan supports them with this process and proactively helps shape this change.
