Poking holes in the plastics-eating caterpillar story

MBA Polymers UK, have been shortlisted as a finalist in the category Recycling Facility of the Year in the National Recycling Awards 2020.

BASF is piloting an innovative blockchain project in the province of British Columbia (BC), Canada aimed at promoting a ‘more competitive circular plastics supply chain’.

As the coronavirus pandemic continues, one of the questions often asked is how this will affect the sustainability goals of the plastics industry.

Deep inside the EU’s seven-year budget and recovery plan, which was approved on Friday 24 July, is a plastics’ waste levy of €800/tonne that comes into force in January 2021, despite the fact that insufficient recycling infrastructure exists throughout the EU.

The first carbon mitigation project in Japan under Dow’s Official Carbon Partnership with the International Olympic Committee is now underway.

ePac Flexible Packaging started its foray into Europe in December 2019, when it opened its first site in the UK, at Silverstone. At the time, the company said that in time, it would be further extending its network of packaging production plants on the continent.

Bonn-based mechanical engineering company Kautex Maschinenbau has appointed Samuel Tevosyan to lead its subsidiary in Russia.

For Engel, Brett Martin, a leading, family-owned manufacturer of plastic building products headquartered in Northern Ireland is a customer of long standing.

Global chemicals producer Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL) is purchasing Industrie Maurizio Peruzzo Polowat spółka z ograniczoną odpowiedzialnością  - IMP Polowat - , a PET recycling facility in Poland. 

Versalis, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Italian oil supermajor Eni, has entered into an agreement with Forever Plast SpA, a leading Italian company in the recovery and recycling of post-consumer plastic to develop and market a new range of solid polystyrene products made from recycled packaging.