News

LyondellBasell Acquires Producer of Recycled Compounds

LyondellBasell completed the acquisition of the Mepol Group of Italy and Poland

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Polyplastics Group Announces Recycling Initiative to Include Recompounding Service

Company will offer mechanically recycled engineering plastics from post industrial materials.

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sustainability

Sutco Managing Director Speaks on Policy Needs for Ensuring Recycling Material Flows Prioritize Sustainability

In a VDMA interview, Michael Ludden discussed the future of recycling and the interactions between chemical and mechanical.

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Packaging

German Retailer's Packaging Incorporates Digital Watermarking

Netto announced that packaging for its store branded products now has covert digital watermarking to facilitate checkout and recycling.

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KraussMaffei Nears Completion of Corporate Headquarters Move

The 185-yr old German maker of plastics processing machinery is shifting to a more than 200,000-m2 greenfield site in Parsdorf.

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Nova Chemicals Announces Mechanical PE Recycling Facility

Indiana site expected to process over 100 million pounds of PE annually.

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Postconsumer

Next Generation Group Invests in Cleaning Equipment Supplier HydroDyn

The recycling equipment manufacturer has acquired a majority share in HydroDyn, a supplier of cleaning and purification equipment.

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sustainability

Production Milestone Achieved for Partially Biobased PET

Origin said its partially biobased PET was injection molded into preforms by Husky, using that company’s established PET processing technology, and then stretch blowmolded into bottles.

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Postconsumer

Republic Services and Ravago in Partnership to Build Recycling Capacity

Planned facilities will have a combined output of 300 million pounds of recycled plastics.

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Testing

Brabender GmbH Bought By Austrian Measurement Company

Leading metrology company Anton Paar buys 100-year old firm, known in the U.S. as C.W. Brabender.  

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