Sustainability
Sustainability
Machine manufacturer Windmöller & Hölscher, specialised in the flexible packaging market, is pushing ahead on the development of a range of sustainably designed sample flexible packaging products, with the aim of showing the market the wide range of options available in the field of sustainability and how these can be ‘efficiently produced using both cast film and blown film processes on W&H lines’, explained Dr. Lennart Ederleh, head of technical sales blown film at W&H.
Chemical company Versalis is launching the aptly named Hoop project, aimed at the development of a new technology to chemically recycle plastic waste, the company has announced.
With the launch of the ‘Pacto Português para os Plásticos on 4 February, Portugal has become the latest European member to join the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Plastics Pact.
Nylon 6/6 leader Ascend Performance Materials has acquired a pair of materials firms in Italy as it puts a new push on becoming more global as what its CEO calls one of its "pillars of growth." Houston-based Ascend purchased Poliblend and Esseti Plast GD from D'Ottavio Group. The deal includes a manufacturing facility in Mozzate, Italy. No purchase price was disclosed.
European plastics and rubber leaders kicked off K 2019 by acknowledging plastics' role in the waste problem and pledged the industry would do its part to find long-term solutions.
UK recycling and waste management company Viridor has reached an agreement with Unilever to supply the FMCG giant with a range of recycled plastics from its currently under-construction Avonmouth resource recovery centre near Bristol.
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Leading Italian bioplastics manufacturer Novamont has entered into a five-year agreement with the Serbian government under which Novamont will support Serbia in that country’s aim to develop a circular bio-economy model.
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, during a reception hosted by Sabic vice chairman & CEO Yousef bin Abdullah Al-Benyan, the company underlined its sustainability ambition with the announcement of its far-reaching plans to work with a network of partners to close the loop on plastics waste in 2020.
Bunting Magnetics Group is expanding its European manufacturing facilities in Redditch, outside Birmingham, the UK.
Starbucks Corp. wants to make major moves away from single-use packaging, including plastics, as part of an effort to cut its carbon footprint and cut waste from its stores and manufacturing in half by 2030.
The European Plastics Convertors (EuPC) trade association has rejected a recent vote by the European Parliament’s Environment Committee (ENVI) which it says will “seriously damage” the circular economy of plastics in Europe.
Interview with Jürgen Priesters, SVP, Circular Economy at Tomra, on polystyrene’s recyclability from a sorting perspective.