The European Recycling Industries’ Confederation (EuRIC) has elected its new leaders during the General Assemblies held in Brussels on 8 and 9 March 2022. Olivier FRANÇOIS (Board Member of FEDEREC) is EuRIC’s new President. He will be supported in his tasks by a solid team of Vice-Presidents composed of Thomas BRAUN (Managing Director of bvse), […]
The COtooCLEAN project, led by Nextek Ltd to produce food-grade recyclate from polyolefin film waste, has secured funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). The UKRI’s Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging challenge, which supports the achievement of the UK Plastics Pact, rewards innovative projects focusing on reuse and recycling of plastic packaging. Polyolefin (LDPE, LLDPE,HDPE,PP) films, which […]
Fashion for Good welcomes eight innovators into its 2022 Global Innovation Programme, chosen from a group of innovators scouted across the globe, who pitched their innovative solutions to Fashion for Good partners. The selected innovators participate in the nine-month programme, which provides a bespoke approach to validate their technologies in preparation for implementation across the […]
With more than 50 years of expertise in the industrial steam turbine business, Triveni’s steam turbine solutions have earned a promising customer, Klingele Papierwerke GmbH & Co. KG, aleading International Paper manufacturer in Germany. The Steam Turbine Generator (STG) unit was successfully installed and commissioned at Weener, Germany during the month of August 2021 with […]
As everyone in the industry knows, prices for the most common type of recycled plastic have doubled in a year, hitting fresh records as companies vie for limited supplies. With virgin plastic becoming cheaper than recycled plastics we are seeing a real threat to the ambitious targets set out by drinks and consumer goods groups. […]
The threat to oil and gas supplies from Russia with the war in Ukraine means a rethink on sustainable energy and net zero emissions is inevitable, according to Ranjit Baxi, Founder of the Global Recycling Foundation. Mr Baxi said: “Governments are now being forced to re-evaluate the potential of fracking, digging for coal and oil […]
AMCS, one of the world’s leading technology provider for the waste, recycling and resource management industry, announced the launch of the AMCS Platform Spring 2022 release. AMCS Platform for Metal Recycling is a new generation cloud-based solution designed with leading scrap recyclers to automate all aspects of their operations from scales, compliance, pricing and contract management, […]
The packaging and recycling specialist acquires Texplast and the joint venture PET Recycling Team Wolfen. The ALPLA Group has become one of the largest PET recycling companies in Germany. With the acquisition of the recycling company Texplast from the FROMM Group and all of its shares in the joint venture PET Recycling Team Wolfen, the […]
The major collaboration will co-fund investigations into how flexible packaging can be designed for sorting and recycling as well as boosting circular economy applications. CEFLEX has announced a major collaboration with UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to co-fund investigations into how flexible packaging can be best designed to be sorted and recycled. An extensive testing […]
Sweden’s leading chemistry group Perstorp, and partner companies Fortum and Uniper, today submitted an EUR 97 million application to the EU Innovation Fund for Project Air. This unique project aims to build a production facility for sustainable methanol in Stenungssund, Sweden, which could reduce global CO2 emissions by 400,000 tonnes, equivalent to approximately 1% of […]