15 June 202312 June 2023 Indorama Ventures and Carbios reaffirm partnership to build first-of-a-kind PET biorecycling plant in France Both parties intent to increase their recycling capacity to 50 billion PET bottles per year by 2025
Carbios + Indorama: Werk für biobasiertes PET-Recycling in Planung Fertigstellung von vorgesehenen Kapazitäten über das Recycling von 50.000 Tonnen PET-Abfall im Jahr ist für 2025 geplant
19 May 202316 May 2023 Sabic’s new sustainable lnp™ compound will add to 400 million diverted water bottles and deliver thin-wall, non-br/cl flame retardance to 0.4 mm for Electrical Industry At the end of 2022, the company had already diverted 400 million 0.5-liter bottles through its iQ upcycling technology
Aus PET wird PBT mit halogenfreiem Flammschutz Sabic bringt ein neues PBT-Compound auf den Markt. Hergestellt aus alten PET-Flaschen bietet es 0,4 mm Flammschutz ohne halogenierte Additive
12 May 20239 May 2023 Collaboration project shows: multi-layer packaging can be separated and recycled on an industrial scale BASF, Krones, SÜDPACK and TOMRA reported about their first collaboration trial, that they were able to completely separate as much as 69 percent of the PET/PE components and partially separate another twelve percent
21 April 202318 April 2023 AIMPLAS participates in a new EU project bringing to the market high-quality polyester textile products from the valorisation of CO2 waste streams New European project demonstrate its first-of-its-kind technology producing commercially viable sustainable PET textile products from CO2 waste streams at industrial scale
20 April 202319 April 2023 Enzyme that Breaks Down PET Plastic Leipzig scientists increase efficiency
12 April 20236 April 2023 Carbios licensing documentation ready for worldwide industrial and commercial deployment of its PET biorecycling technology The advanced engineering study for its first commercial plant define the engineering basis and operational guidelines for units to be operated under license agreements
23 March 202320 March 2023 SK Chemicals Enters 7.57 Billion Dollars Recycled PET Market to Take the Lead Company has secured the world's first commercially available polyester chemically recycled raw materials and production facility, which can be sold separately from Shuye Environmental Solutions in China
SK Chemicals steigt in den 7,6-Milliarden-Dollar-Recycling-PET-Markt ein und strebt eine führende Position an Unternehmen sicherte sich durch Shuye Environmental Solutions aus China die weltweit ersten kommerziell verfügbaren chemisch recycelten Polyester-Rohstoffe und Produktionsanlagen, die separat verkauft werden können
“Vollwertiges Recycling”: Enzyme sollen Plastikmüll verdauen Inzwischen wurden allein drei Enzyme gefunden, die Polyurethan in seine Bestandteile zerlegen können - auch PVA in Verpackungen oder PET können mittels Enzymen recycelt werden
15 March 202313 March 2023 ALBIS distributes chemically recycled plastics ECOTRIA® CR and SKYPET® CR from SK Chemicals As of the beginning of the year, the ECOTRIA® CR and SKYPET® CR product ranges have been certified according to REACH and are distributed by ALBIS throughout Europe
ALBIS vertreibt chemisch recycelte Kunststoffe ECOTRIA® CR und SKYPET® CR von SK Chemicals Die Produktreihen ECOTRIA® CR und SKYPET® CR sind seit diesem Jahr nach REACH zertifiziert und werden von ALBIS europaweit vertrieben
2 March 202327 February 2023 The global warming potential and the material utility of PET and bio-based PEF bottles over multiple recycling trips Recent results show that deposit-based recycling systems significantly reduce the cumulative cradle-to-grave net GHG emissions for both bottle types
17 February 202315 February 2023 Thrifty trick for bacterial plastic upcycling Implementation of a newly discovered metabolic pathway increases the CO2 efficiency of PET-utilizing bacteria
Spar-Trick für Kunststoff-Recycling durch Bakterien Der Einbau eines neu entdeckten Stoffwechselweges macht PET-verwertende Bakterien CO2-effizienter
7 February 20236 February 2023 Nachhaltigkeitsziele nur mit Kunststoff erreichbar Verzicht auf Kunststoffverpackungen würde den CO2-Ausstoß im Lebensmittelsektor drastisch erhöhen – Kunststoff mit Recycling bei Nachhaltigkeit unschlagbar
revalyu builds major industrial PET recycling facility in the US Chemical recycler Revalyu Resources GmbH is bringing the company's glycolysis technology to the United States through a $50 million project
revalyu: Neues Werk für chemisches PET-Recycling in den USA revalyu Resources (revalyu), ein Unternehmen für chemisches PET-Recycling, gab heute bekannt, dass es in der ersten Phase seiner strategischen Expansion 50 Millionen US-Dollar in ein Werk in den USA investieren will
25 January 202320 January 2023 Carbios and Novozymes strengthen collaboration with long-term exclusive strategic partnership to secure worldwide leadership in biorecycling of PET Building on the current Joint Development Agreement (JDA) the companies will extend their collaboration to develop, optimize and produce enzymes to be supplied by Novozymes to all licensees of Carbios’ technology
Carbios und Novozymes erweitern ihre Kollaboration zu einer langfristigen, exklusiven und strategischen Partnerschaft zur Sicherung der weltweiten Marktführerschaft im Bereich PET-Biorecycling Mit dem aktuellen „Joint Development Agreement“ (JDA) werden Carbios und Novozymes ihre Zusammenarbeit ausweiten und Enzyme entwickeln, optimieren und produzieren, um von Novozymes an alle Lizenznehmer der Carbios-Technologie geliefert zu werden
20 January 202316 January 2023 Turning plastic waste into a valuable soil additive UCR method creates useful char from plastic and corn waste
Umwandlung von Kunststoffabfällen in einen wertvollen Bodenzusatzstoff Neue Methode erzeugt nützliche Holzkohle aus Plastik- und Maisabfällen
17 January 202311 January 2023 AIMPLAS participates in the EU REPurpose project on safe and sustainable design of elastomeric plastics from recycling of post-consumer waste Collaboration project to be a game-changer in tackling recycling of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and creating new thermoplastic elastomer polymers
10 January 202310 January 2023 Scientists Discover Enzymes That Could Make It Cheaper To Recycle Waste Polyester Textiles and Bottles Than Making Them From Petroleum Using machine learning, NREL-led team discovered variants of 'plastic-eating' enzymes adapted to deconstructing all varieties of PET — even durable crystalline varieties
22 December 202220 December 2022 Alpla and PTT Global Chemical Realise Thailand’s Largest Plastics Recycling Plant Equipped with State-of-the-Art Technology Following 18 months of construction and installation, the ALPLA Group and PTT Global Chemical are opening the state-of-the-art ENVICCO food-grade recycling plant for bottle-to-bottle applications in Thailand
18 November 202216 November 2022 Eastman confirms offtake agreement with PepsiCo for third US chemical recycling site Eastman Chemical Co. has signed a deal to supply beverage giant PepsiCo Inc. from its proposed third chemical recycling plant
8 November 20222 November 2022 TotalEnergies Corbion: no technical barrier exist that prevent an effective separation of PLA from other plastic waste The French-Dutch company claims that sorting PLA from other plastics waste is easy and straight-forward
4 November 202231 October 2022 EREMA Group und INTCO Recycling unterzeichnen strategische Partnerschaft für Ausbau des PET Recycling Segments Langjährige Kooperation zweier internationaler Recycling-Größen
EREMA Group and INTCO Recycling sign strategic partnership for recycling PET Longtime cooperation between two international recycling greats
10 October 20227 October 2022 Interzero and Eastman reach long-term supply agreement for planned molecular recycling facility in France Eastman’s planned molecular recycling facility in France will become the world’s largest material-to-material molecular recycling plant
22 September 202219 September 2022 Koch Technology Solutions And Ioniqa Technologies Partner To Disrupt Plastics Industry Through Advanced PET Upcycling Technology Ioniqa has developed an innovative process that utilizes low-grade post-consumer PET to infinitely produce a feedstock that displaces virgin raw materials used in the production of polyester products
19 September 202214 September 2022 A new purpose: recycled PET bottles are turned into adhesive tapes tesa develops a new packaging tape with backing material made from recycled post-consumer PET
Im neuen Gewand: recycelte PET-Flaschen werden zu Klebebändern tesa entwickelt ein neues Verpackungsklebeband mit Trägermaterial aus recyceltem Post-Consumer-PET
15 September 202212 September 2022 Problemfresser namens PHL7 Forscher:innen aus Leipzig haben ein Enzym entdeckt, das PET-Plastik schnell zersetzt. Hilft es in Zukunft dabei, die Plastikflut zu bewältigen?
7 September 20221 September 2022 Kunststoff zersetzendes Enzym entwickelt Recycling durch biologisches Zerlegen
5 September 20225 September 2022 Mitsui Chemicals and Teijin to Integrate Domestic PET Resin for Bottles Operations MCI and Teijin have been studying the potential advantages of integrating their PET resin operations and capitalizing on synergistic effects ranging from research and development to production and sales
24 August 202216 August 2022 First concept shoe made entirely from sustainable BASF materials co-created with design house Maddy Plant Developed using advanced manufacturing capabilities
29 July 202225 July 2022 Keine Recyclinglüge, aber durchaus Schwachstellen ARD-Reportage „Die Recyclinglüge“ sorgt für Unmut und Enttäuschung in der Kunststoffbranche, die mit Vollgas in Richtung Kreislaufwirtschaft unterwegs ist
28 July 202217 November 2022 Plastic eating organisms Researchers caution that we are still years away from widespread commercial use
22 July 202219 July 2022 Recyclateinsatzquoten: Der Teufel steckt im Detail Die Diskussion über Recyclateinsatzquoten dauert sowohl in Deutschland als auch innerhalb der Europäischen Union an
13 July 20229 July 2022 Sustainability accelerates with promising profit: Concept to reality bio-PET Logistics chaos, reliable production and the need to ensure enough feedstocks to operate remains the main concern for products in the polyester chain in Europe and the US
8 July 20225 July 2022 New PET-like plastic made directly from waste biomass EPFL scientists have developed a new, PET-like plastic that is easily made from the non-edible parts of plants. The plastic is tough, heat-resistant, and a good barrier to gases like oxygen, making it a promising candidate for food packaging. Due to its structure, the new plastic can also be chemically recycled and degrade back to harmless sugars in the environment
13 June 20229 June 2022 From the packet into your food: what harmful substances are in food packaging? The Basel researchers are focusing on food packaging made from plastics
Von der Tüte ins Essen: Welche Schadstoffe sind im Verpackungsmaterial? Die Basler Forschenden richten ihren Fokus auf Lebensmittelverpackungen aus Kunststoff
3 June 202230 May 2022 LanzaTech, with the support of Danone, Discovers Method to Produce Sustainable PET Bottles from Captured Carbon Proof of concept for direct production of monoethylene glycol (MEG), a key building block in sustainable PET production, completed at lab scale
2 June 202225 May 2022 Teijin Frontier Develops New Chemical Recycling Technology for Polyester Fibers The company will launch a pilot facility at its Matsuyama Plant this month and continue developing recycling technologies to improve the quality of recycled polyester raw materials, reduce environmental load
30 May 202223 May 2022 Toray: PET-Recyclinganlage mit Axens in Planung Es werden Kapazitäten für das Recycling von insgesamt bis zu 80.000 Tonnen PET-Abfall im Jahr avisiert
24 May 202218 May 2022 Axens and Toray Films Europe to boost Plastic Circular Economy with a new PET Chemical Recycling Plant in Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost (France) Joined efforts of both parties in their domain of expertise will allow the emergence of competencies for chemical recycling circularity