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EREMA Group and Borealis at K 2022: a first glimpse of K show topics, activities and highlights

13 June, EREMA Group and Borealis invited representatives of the international plastics and recycling trade press to Upper Austria for a sneak preview of the technological developments and lighthouse projects that the companies will present at K 2022, the plastics industry's international meeting…

ENGEL at K 2022: CO2 footprint: an opportunity for the plastics industry

Rising energy and raw material prices see plastics processing companies face new challenges. "Reducing the CO2 footprint even faster gives companies leeway. Competitiveness and resilience are boosted," as Dr. Gerhard Dimmler, CTO of the ENGEL Group, emphasises in the run-up to K 2022. "ENGEL is the…

Plastic recyclers in Europe struggle to get enough plastic waste

Low available volumes of sorted plastic waste are negatively impacting the operations of plastics recyclers across Europe creating an obstacle to achieving the EU targets.

SIPA: Keeping a close eye on operating expenses

In a highly competitive business like PET preform production, operators need to keep a close eye on operating expenses, OPEX. It’s not just the price of the polymer they need to look at of course; things like energy bills and maintenance costs can have an important impact on the total cost of the…

Siegwerk's deinking primer technologies for labels and sleeves improve packaging recyclability and foster circularity

With its UV- and water-based deinking primers for labels and sleeves, Siegwerk offers validated solutions for a safe and economic deinking of energy cured ink systems that have been so far considered as non-deinkable. This sets new norms to drive deinking as industry standard and further improve…

Gneuss MRS Extrusion Technology nominated for Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2022

Gneuss, a family-owned company based in Bad Oeynhausen, Germany, has been shortlisted for the Plastics Recycling Awards 2022 in the category of Recycling Machinery Innovation with its unique MRSjump extrusion technology.

Krones showroom received the German Brand Award

The Krones showroom went online around two years ago and is currently being expanded in preparation for the drinktec fair.
The showroom has now received the German Brand Award 2022 in the category "Excellence in Brand Strategy and Creation - Brand Communication - Point of Sale".

VTT develops transparent cellulose film to replace traditional plastic in food packaging

“The cellulose film developed by VTT can replace plastic as a more climate-friendly solution. It also makes recycling easy, as it can be placed in cardboard recycling along with other packages”, says Atte Virtanen, Vice President, for Biomaterial processing and products at VTT.

FrieslandCampina plans to sell parts of its German consumer business to the Theo Müller group

Royal FrieslandCampina NV plans to sell parts of its German consumer business to the Theo Müller group. The agreement includes the Landliebe brand and three German production sites. In the future FrieslandCampina will focus on expanding the successful business with international brands such as…

The Circular Plastic Taskforce partners with Digimarc Corporation to launch pilot to optimize sortation of flexible packaging in Canada, a North American first

The Circular Plastic Taskforce is proud to announce a partnership with Digimarc Corporation, creator of Digimarc watermarks that are driving the next generation of digital identification and detection-based solutions, to test Digimarc® Recycle for optimizing the sortation of flexible plastic…

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