Karen Laird

Covestro, Advanced Polymer Technology and Polytan jointly developed the Poligras Tokyo GT field hockey surface. Used as a flooring in the hockey fields at this summer's major sporting event in Tokyo, it contains a polyurethane raw material from Covestro produced with up to 20 percent CO₂.

Under the new agreement concluded between recycled polyol producer Rampf Eco Solutions and multi-energy Repsol, Repsol is granted exclusivity throughout Europe to develop and construct new plants for the production of recycled polyols.

Paccor, a packaging expert headquartered in Düsseldorf, is once again demonstrating that its commitment to sustainability is more than talk.

With its acquisition of a significant minority stake in the Slovak company Panara a.s., the global packaging specialist, the Alpla Group, is stepping up its activities in the research field of alternative, sustainable raw materials for packaging.

In December 2020, the 1,000th machine for ENA was shipped to South Carolina, from Erema headquarters in Austria, and is now in operation at the facility of recycling service provider PreZero to recycle post consumer plastic waste.

The two companies will partner to provide circular solutions to the market. The investment in a complete recycling solution is set to significantly improve recycling throughout Central and Eastern Europe. 

Scholle IPN, a global supplier of flexible packaging solutions, and Obbotec, a Netherlands-based plastics firm specialised in advanced recycling solutions, have entered into a partnership with the aim of engineering and testing new methods of advanced recycling for pouches and bag-in-box type flexible packaging.

Construction of the UK’s very first carpet recycling facilityhas commenced– with work now underway at the plant on Northamptonshire’s Chelveston Renewable Energy Innovation Park.

Alterra Energy, an innovative advanced recycling technology company, and Ravago, a global leader in polymer recycling and distribution, announced today that Ravago has acquired an equity interest in Alterra Energy.

Coperion has announced that its long-time employee Ulrich Bartel has been named President of Coperion.

Committed to improving the environmental footprint of its packaging, SARBEC Laboratories, with their Corine de Farme brand, has announced the launch of their new bottles based on renewably-sourced polymers.

The project provides traceability during the production of plastic packaging

Sustainable packaging producer Faerch is buying MCP Performance Plastic, Ltd.

In 2019, the DuPont Mobility & Materials production facility at Dordrecht, the Netherlands, was the first DuPont manufacturing site to receive ISCC certification - and was the first POM plant worldwide to be certified.

A value-chain project in which 5 partners - Dow, Syntegon, Comexi, Plastchim-T and Ticinoplast - were involved has resulted in the creation of a new, more sustainable food pouch.