Pioneer in Digitalization, Focus on System Engineering, COMPEO Now Even More Versatile At K2022, BUSS AG will be explaining the possibilities of its digitalized machine monitoring project, which is designed to extend machine service life…

Archroma Launches Appretan NTR Barrier Solutions for Food Packaging Based on a Renewable Natural Ingredient Component Archroma, a global leader in specialty chemicals towards sustainable solutions, today announced that its ground-breaking…

European Plastics and Rubber Machinery Industry Well Positioned Despite Crisis and Highly Motivated for K 2022 The expected production value for plastics and rubber machinery in Europe in 2022 will be – as in 2021 – around 15 billion euros.…

A Revolutionary Die Lip Adjustment System Set to Be Introduced by Nordson at K 2022 The new, patent pending EDI Prodigi system takes extrusion and coating processes to another level by fully automating the lip gap adjustment – making it…

Tracing and Recycling Plastics The cross-company cooperative project R-Cycle was officially launched. The objective is to ensure the recyclability of plastic packaging through seamless documentation of all recycling-relevant packaging…

R-Cycle Wins the German Sustainability Award 2021 R-Cycle – the digital product passport for sustainable plastics – receives the German Sustainability Award 2021 in the “Packaging” category. The award is conferred by the German Institute…

BOBST Aims to Help Close the Plastic Loop With R-Cycle BOBST, one of the world’s leading suppliers to the packaging industry, tests the R-Cycle data standard and is launching a pilot project to automatically record recycling-relevant…

GS1 Launches Project to Develop Guideline Based on R-Cycle Under the auspices of GS1 Germany, the project PDS4CircularPlastics (Processes and data sharing approach for enabling circular plastics value networks) has been launched. The goal…

Start for the R-Cycle Community R-Cycle starts into a new phase as an open community. The first official general assembly was held on May 3, 2022 at R-Cycle member Multivac’s corporate site in Wolfertschwenden, Germany. R-Cycle was founded…

ILLIG Joins R-Cycle Community ILLIG Maschinenbau has joined the R-Cycle Community. Thus, the specialist for packaging solutions relies on the digital product passport for sustainable plastics, improving the sustainability of products, the…