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PureCycle Technologies And TOPPAN Establish Partnership To Deliver Sustainable Packaging Solutions With Recycled Content
PureCycle Technologies (Nasdaq: PCT), a U.S.-based company revolutionizing plastic recycling, and TOPPAN, a global leader in packaging solutions, today announced a partnership to advance sustainability in flexible films and thermoformed packaging applications.
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Neste Commissions The World's Largest Upgrading Facility For Liquefied Waste Plastic And Scales Up Chemical Recycling
Neste has successfully commissioned its new upgrading facility for liquefied waste plastic (LWP) at its Porvoo refinery in Finland.
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Ocean Bacteria Team Up To Break Down Biodegradable Plastic
Biodegradable plastics could help alleviate the plastic waste crisis that is polluting the environment and harming our health.
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Konica Minolta And AIST Develop AI-Based Technology To Optimize The Conditions For Compounding And Molding Composite Plastics
Konica Minolta, Inc. (Konica Minolta) and the research group of National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Shun Muroga, Senior Researcher, Daisuke Kimura, Researcher and Kenji Hata, Director of the Nanocarbon Material Research Institute, today announced that they have developed an AI-based technology to optimize the conditions for mixing and molding composite plastics.
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Indorama Ventures, Nigerian Breweries And Genesis Energy Partner To Develop One Of Africa's Largest rPET Production Facilities
Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited, a global sustainable chemical company, together with Nigerian Breweries Plc, the foremost brewer in Nigeria, and Genesis Power & Energy Solutions Ltd, a leading African clean energy infrastructure development and asset management company, have entered a strategic partnership to establish one of Africa’s largest state-of-the-art recycled PET (rPET) production facilities in Nigeria, based on planned production capacity.
INDUSTRY NEWS
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Nickolas Asset Management Acquires Resin Processing Facility From Material Difference Technologies2/10/2026
Nickolas Asset Management (NAM) announced today the acquisition of a resin processing and materials facility from Material Difference Technologies (MDT), a Florida-based supplier and processor of plastic resins serving industrial and consumer manufacturing markets.
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Milliken Highlights Next-Generation Polymer Solutions At PLASTINDIA 20262/5/2026
Milliken & Company is showcasing a full portfolio of advanced polymer innovations tailored to meet the evolving needs of the plastics industry at PLASTINDIA 2026 in New Delhi, India from February 5-10.
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Polypropylene Cups Earn Widely Recyclable Designation, Expanding Access To Curbside Recycling Nationwide2/2/2026
More communities across the U.S. can now recycle cold to‑go cups, marking a major step toward reducing waste and building a more circular future.
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BD And Envetec Demonstrate Closed-Loop Recycling Solution For Laboratory Plastics In Health Care1/29/2026
BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, and Envetec Sustainable Technologies ("Envetec"), announced today the successful completion of a joint feasibility study to test the ability to recycle polystyrene Petri dishes into new, high-quality manufacturing feedstock.
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Polyplastics Develops New DURAFIDE(R) PPS Grades With Mechanically Recycled Content1/28/2026
Polyplastics Co., Ltd., a global leader in engineering thermoplastics, has developed two new DURAFIDE(R) polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) grades made of mechanically recycled content.
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Emerald Packaging Joins The U.S. Flexible Film Initiative To Help Scale Recycling Of Flexible Plastics1/15/2026
Emerald Packaging, the largest supplier of retail flexible packaging for the produce industry, today announced that it has become a member of the U.S. Flexible Film Initiative (USFFI), a nonprofit initiative and industry coalition dedicated to building a scalable, circular system for recycling flexible plastic packaging in the United States.
