Borealis and Value Chain Partners Develop More Sustainable Flexible Packaging Formats Containing 50% Post-Consumer Recyclate Application development with partners Plastotecnica and ACMI results in fully recyclable multilayer collation…

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…

Ascend Focuses on Reducing Product Carbon Footprint Ascend Performance Materials announced today two efforts to reduce the carbon footprint of its products. The company has made its global compounding operations carbon neutral, making it…

Consortium Members Present Pilot Projects at Second Face-to-Face Meeting On October 6 all the members of the R-Cycle Consortium met for their second strategic face-to-face meeting. Arburg, Kautex Maschinenbau, Reifenhäuser, the Institute…

Specialist for Plastics Recycling Machines EREMA Becomes R-Cycle Partner The EREMA Group – a world leader in the development and manufacture of plastics recycling machines and system components – joins the R-Cycle consortium. Founded in…

Comexi – Leading Supplier to the Flexible Packaging Converters Industry – Joins R-cycle Comexi joined the R-Cycle consortium. The specialist in solutions for the flexible packaging printing and converting industry is already working in a…

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…

R-Cycle Initiative Becomes Open Community The R-Cycle Initiative, founded in 2020 by various technology companies and organizations across the plastic packaging lifecycle, is transitioning into an open community. This is the next important…