Eco Expo Asia 2024: Unveiling New Energy Innovations for a Carbon-Zero Future

Eco Expo Asia 2024 is set to return from 30 October – 2 November at the AsiaWorld-Expo in Hong Kong, promising to be a premier event for sustainability and green technology in the Greater Bay Area. This year’s edition will introduce a brand-new “New Energy and Energy Efficiency” zone, demonstrating the fair’s commitment to advance […]

Plastics Sustainability eSolution

German publishing house Hanser has launched Plastics Sustainability eSolution, a knowledge database that bundles “relevant up-to-date information on the sustainability and recycling of plastics”. According to Hanser, the new platform is designed for user-friendliness and daily use. All content is readily searchable. “This quickly provides qualified answers and reliable results on the topic searched for. […]

Eldan Recycling Is Adding on High Tech for even better Recycling Solutions

Since 1956, the Danish company has manufactured recycling equipment known for high performance, low production costs and products with high output purity. The systems and machines are developed based on ambient mechanical techniques for size reduction and separation and require no melting or chemical treatment. The modular design enables the customers to expand or upgrade […]

Steinert Extended Range of Sorting Equipment

In May this year, the German-based sorting specialist Steinert informed that the company acquired the MSort sorting systems from Mogensen GmbH & Co. KG (based in Wedel near Hamburg), which has been part of the JOEST group since January. With this acquisition, the owner family Buchholz was pleased with the establishment of a new subsidiary […]

Equity Fund Invests in Tana Oy

The CapMan Growth Equity III fund has made its first investment in Finnish environmental technology company Tana. The investment has been made together with CapMan Growth’s long-term industrial advisor, Normet Group’s principal owner, Aaro Cantell, and Elo Mutual Pension Insurance Company. Simultaneously, the company’s executive management also invests significantly in the company. Tana’s long-term owner […]

UAE Plastic Recycling Market to Grow

As reported by Ireland-based company ResearchAndMarkets.com, the plastic recycling market in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is positioned for significant growth in the coming years with an anticipated compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.34 percent. According to recent market research, the market size stood at 0.84 million tons in 2020 and is predicted to […]

BIR: Emmanuel Katrakis Joins the Organization’s Leadership

BIR President Susie Burrage OBE has appointed Emmanuel Katrakis as the new Chair of the organization’s International Trade Council. Emmanuel Katrakis is Director of Public and Regulatory Affairs at longstanding BIR member company Galloo Group, a leading western European company active in the recycling of metals and technical plastics. He is a well-known figure within […]

USA: Brightmark to Invest in new Plastics Circularity Center

Circular solutions company Brightmark LLC, headquartered in San Francisco, intends to develop a 2.5 million-square-foot circularity center in Thomaston (Georgia) with the capacity to repurpose over 400,000 tons of plastic per year. According to Brightmark, the company’s proprietary Plastics Renewal technology “takes discarded plastic content and converts it into the materials to create new circular […]

UNESCO Chair on Materials and Technologies for the Energy Transition

Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, in collaboration with Luleå University of Technology (Sweden), has announced the establishment of the UNESCO Chair on Technologies and Materials for Green and Energy Applications (Aid4GEA), an initiative dedicated to science and technologies for the energy transition. The Chair is Elisa Moretti, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Ca’ Foscari, and […]

Re-Stabilization Technology for Mechanical Recycled Plastics

International active South Korean company Songwon Industrial Co., Ltd., highlighted at the National Plastics Exposition (NPE) 2024 in Orlando (Florida) its commitment as a leading provider of additives and services designed to help customers in the plastics industry optimize the sustainability of their products. In response to the growing demand for circular plastics, the manufacturer […]