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Extrupet Adds Second Starlinger PET Recycling Line

Extrupet Group has ordered a second Starlinger PET recycling line to meet the country’s growing demand for rPET.

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Packaging

Under One Roof: Innovative Recycler Closes the Loop

rPlanet Earth looks to disrupt the plastics recycling industry by creating a truly sustainable, closed-loop system for recycling and reuse of post-consumer plastics, with reclaim, sheet extrusion, thermoforming and preform making all in the same plant.

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Postindustrial

Henkel's Recycling Initiatives Include Social Plastic and Partnership with TerraCycle

Henkel expands its partnerships with the Plastic Bank and TerraCycle to increase its overall recycling offerings. 

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Postindustrial

Starlinger Lines Now at Three Locations of rPET Producer CarbonLITE

Starlinger recycling technology will deliver PET recycling lines with a total installed capacity of 5.4 tons/hour for CarbonLITE’s new site in Pennsylvania at the end of the year.

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sustainability

Plastics Industry Fly-In on March 27

This year’s Fly-In attendees will hold over 100 meetings with elected officials and their staff on the Hill

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Postconsumer

Report: Advanced Plastics Recycling Has Potential for $10 Billion Economic Output

If widely adopted, these processes could result in nearly 40,000 direct and indirect U.S. jobs, as much as $2.2 billion in annual payroll, and another $9.9 billion in direct and indirect economic output.

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Postconsumer

98% of European Plastics Production Covered by the Operation Clean Sweep Program

Operation Clean Sweep is an international program to prevent pellet loss.

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sustainability

Circular Polymers To Turn Post-Consumer Carpet Into Feedstock For Chemical Recycling

Circular Polymers to process 30 Million pounds of carpet annually.  

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Medical

Concurrent Chinaplas Events Cover Recycling, Industry 4.0, Design and More

The more than 3500 exhibitors are the biggest draw to Chinaplas, but in 2019 show organizer Adsale Exhibition Services is planning multiple collocated events to further boost appeal.

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Postindustrial

Recycling: New Ultra-Fine Melt Filtration for PET Recycling

Smaller 60 µm screen size now available for Ettlinger’s ECO series filters suits them to processing 100% PET bottle flake for thermoforming sheet, packaging tape or staple fiber.

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Process Cooling
Blending & Dosing