Karen Laird

As plastic packaging requirements continue to evolve in response to new legislation, environmental considerations and changing consumer demand and lifestyle, keeping up can pose a challenge for plastic packaging manufacturers.

TotalEnergies has partnered with Vanheede Environment Group on the supply of post consumer recycled - PCR - raw material, securing stable and constant feedstock availability for its production of circular polymers.

The planned construction of Avantium’s FDCA bioplastics facility in Delfzijl, the Netherlands, has advanced another step forward.

Braskem S.A. has signed an agreement through its wholly-owned subsidiary Braskem Netherlands B.V to form a joint venture with Terra Circular, the parent company of Dutch recycler ER Plastics.

CMG Granulators has announced a new collaboration for the distribution of recycling equipment and solutions in the Nordic region.

Kuala Lumpur-headquartered Petronas Chemicals Group Berhad (PCG) and Sweden’s Perstorp Group announced today that PCG signed a securities purchase agreement on 14 May 2022 to acquire the entire equity interest in Perstorp Holding AB.

Velcro Companies has become the newest member of Cyclyx International, a post-use plastic feedstock supply chain initiative founded by chemical recycler Agilyx Corporation and ExxonMobil Chemical Company as a means to promote and increase the rate of plastics recycling.

Classen, a German manufacturer of synthetic flooring, has recently invested in new extrusion equipment including a Multi-Touch roll stack from battenfeld-cincinnati.

In recent years, ocean-bound plastic, plastic waste that originates within 50 km of the coast and is likely to end up in the ocean, has increasingly been recognised as a potentially recoverable, recyclable resource.

Following its recent announcement that CJ Bio’s new PHA facility in Pasuruan, Indonesia has come on stream and is now producing amorphous PHAs, the company has now revealed that its new PHA products are to be marketed under the brand name PHACT.

Polyolefin manufacturer Borealis has teamed up with the environmental and material recovery experts of the Reclay Group, the company has announced.

Technology group Heraeus Holding GMBH, a Germany based family-owned portfolio company with roots going back to the seventeenth century, has announced that it has acquired a majority stake in perPETual Technologies, a leading PET recycling company based in Kleinostheim, Germany.

In the lead-up to K 2022, the German Mechanical Engineering Industry Association, VDMA is conducting a series of interviews with leading businesspersons in the industry, under the title Way2K.

The Alliance to End Plastic Waste and Lombard Odier Investment Managers have announced their intention to launch a new Plastic Circularity strategy.

A £1 million Bring It Back Fund launched today by UK-based environmental charity Hubbub in partnership with Starbucks aims to increase reuse and remove barriers to reusable packaging in the food and beverage industry.