Avient has developed a non-nylon-containing oxygen scavenger additive that has been specifically formulated to enable the use of up to 100 percent recycled PET content.

LyondellBasell has taken a further step towards the circular economy, the company announced on 6 May.

UBQ Materials and Mercedes Benz have been named this year’s recipients of the inaugural Sustainability Award in Automotive, an award programme jointly organised by the Springer Fachmedien’s ATZ/MTZ Group and Roland Berger, in the category of Best Startup.

Borealis has announced that the first QPinch heat recovery demonstration plant has been completed and successfully started up at a Borealis LDPE production site in Antwerp.

Ineffective sorting is currently one of the main barriers to the wider recycling of lightweight packaging waste.

The new recycling facility that is being built at Tiel, the Netherlands, has achieved an environmental goal that sets this process apart from others in the industry.

From next year, Lufthansa Cargo will equip its entire cargo fleet with an artificial shark skin film The AeroSHARK technology, developed by BASF, mimics the skin structure of a shark, improving the aerodynamics and lowering the fuel consumption of the aircraft.

As one of Austria’s major employers of skilled technical personnel, plastics machinery manufacturer Engel has long been a supporter of Girl’s Day, an annual event designed to broaden the awareness of the the opportunities open to girls in, among, others, the technical professions.

Green Group subsidiary company  Green Fiber has announced that its annual PET bottle recycling capacity now exceeds 2 billion bottles.

Packaging machinery manufacturer Multivac has joined the R-Cycle project, the German initiative aimed at enabling an open and globally applicable standard to ensure the traceability of plastic packaging throughout the value chain, from production through end of life.

In a year that for many companies was a difficult one, Brückner Maschinenbau, based in Siegsdorf, Germany saw its business thrive.

As the popularity of solar energy continues to grow, one of the challenges that remains to be overcome is its relative lack of flexibility.

In some ways, coffee pods are an excellent example of one of modern life’s double-edged swords.

A new project is gradually taking shape that will see the first waste-to-chemicals plant being built on the Iberian peninsula.

Italy-based recycling equipment manufacturer CMG has developed technology that makes it possible even for biodegradable post-industrial rejects waste to be reprocessed.