A New Range of Recycled Polymers for Food Contact Packaging
Versalis (part of the Italian chemical company Eni) and Forever Plast (one of Italy’s leading companies in post-consumer plastic recycling) have launched Refence, a new range of recycled polymers for food contact packaging.
“The range is already available in the market for polystyrene applications such as yogurt pots, trays for meat and fish, and other types of rigid and expanded packaging,” mineral oil and energy group Eni gave account. The new products would expand the Versalis Revive portfolio of mechanically recycled materials, “redefining their application limits and enabling direct contact with food”.
The recycled polymers are produced due to Newer technology, developed in Versalis’ research laboratories in Mantua and industrialized at Forever Plast’s facilities in Lograto (Brescia) under a co-development agreement between both companies. As reported, the technology used would enable the purification of recycled polymers in compliance with EU Regulation 1616/2022 on recycling. “The technology has also obtained the Non-Objection Letter (NOL) from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).”
(Published in GLOBAL RECYCLING Magazine 3/2024, Page 16)
