Full disclosure: Arburg earns a category B score from CDP

Retail, as we know it, is facing a watershed moment. One of the longer-lasting effects of COVID is destined to be our continued fondness for online shopping.

Organisers of the Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2021 have extended the entry deadline for all seven award categories until Friday 30 April 2021. The judging panel for the 2021 awards has also been revealed.

Corsico, Italy-based PlastiBlow srl is focused on developments to use recycled or post-consumer material with extrusion blow moulding machines.

Swedish compounder Polykemi AB is opening a plant in North Carolina.

Materials firm Selenis has reached full production on glycol-modified PET (PETG) resins with recycled content.

If the circular economy could have a mentor, it should be Sweden. 

EuPC has sounded a clear warning about the impact of the current situation on the raw materials market for the European converters.

Romania-based PET recycler Green Tech, a Green Group member company, has become the first recycling company in Europe to be endorsed by the prestigious Gold Standard for issuing carbon credits for PET recycling activity.

Origin Materials, Inc., a self-described carbon-negative materials company headquartered in West-Sacramento, California, and Packaging Matters, a manufacturer of packaging solutions have announced plans to develop a new type of packaging based on the next-generation polymer, polyethylene furanoate.

Amsterdam-headquartered renewable chemistry company Avantium N.V. has developed proprietary technology to produce the plant-based glycols plantMEG and plantMPG, both of which have now been produced at its demonstration plant in Delfzijl, the Netherlands.