Industry News

  1. Sustane Technologies Announces Offtake Agreement With Global Leader BASF To Advance Circular Plastics Economy 6/26/2025

    Sustane Technologies and Germany-headquartered BASF have signed a long-term offtake agreement that will see BASF purchase premium plastic feedstock from Sustane's Chester, Nova Scotia facility, including output from both its existing production line and an upcoming facility expansion comprising a new line, tripling capacity.

  2. Toyoda Gosei Launches Horizontal Recycling Technology For Plastic Automotive Parts 6/17/2025

    Toyoda Gosei Co., Ltd. has developed a new technology to recycle high-quality plastic from end-of-life vehicles (ELV) in order to meet the growing demand for recycled plastic in the automotive industry against strengthened environmental regulations.

  3. Birch Biosciences Enters Into Global Patent License Agreement With NREL To Advance Enzymatic Plastic Recycling Process 6/11/2025

    Birch Biosciences, a startup focused on AI-powered enzymatic plastic recycling, today announced a global patent license agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to commercialize a novel enzymatic deconstruction processing technology that breaks down polyethylene terephthalate (PET)—a common plastic used in packaging and textiles—to recover valuable chemical building blocks.

  4. Alterra Technology Enables Major Milestone In Plastic Recycling At Viva Energy Geelong Refinery 5/15/2025

    Alterra, a global leader in advanced plastic recycling technologies, is proud to announce the successful deployment of its pyrolysis oil in Australia, marking a significant step toward a circular economy for plastics.

  5. Univation Technologies Announces World-Scale 800,000 Tonnes/Year Design Capacity For UNIPOL™ PE Process Technology 5/12/2025

    Univation Technologies, LLC announces the next-generation of the UNIPOL™ PE Process platform with its newest world-scale licensed capacity offering of an 800,000 tonnes per year design.

  6. Gunze Apparel Business Establishes Sustainable Supply Chain 5/8/2025

    Gunze Limited (Headquarters: Osaka, Japan, President: Toshiyasu Saguchi) is pleased to announce that Gunze has introduced a "recycled hanger" made of 100% *PCR material from plastic waste at the logistics bases of its Group company, Gunze Distribution Co., Ltd. This initiative is part of Gunze's efforts to promote "company-wide waste recycling" and realize a resource-recycling society.

  7. Eurofins Sustainability Services Introduces First Recycled Plastics Testing That Leverages Properties Of Plastics For Accurate Results To Support Authenticity Of Textile Claims 5/6/2025

    Eurofins Sustainability Services, a full-service provider for retailers, brands, and manufacturers of consumer products, has grown its extensive service offering to include recycled plastics testing for the textile, apparel, and footwear industries.

  8. Braskem And Fitesa Announce The Use Of Braskem's I'm Green Bio-Based Polyethylene Grade For Nonwovens 4/29/2025

    Braskem, the largest polyolefins producer in the Americas, as well as a global market leader and pioneer producer of biopolymers on an industrial scale, and Fitesa, one of the world’s largest nonwoven manufacturers and the first company to produce Spunbond nonwovens with I’m green bio-based polyethylene, are proud to announce the use of Braskem’s I’m green bio-based high-density polyethylene (HDPE) designed specifically for nonwoven applications.

  9. Fictiv And EVCO Plastics Announce Strategic Partnership To Deliver End-To-End Injection Molding Supply Chain Solutions 4/8/2025

    Fictiv, a global supply chain solutions leader, has created a strategic partnership with EVCO Plastics, a leading custom plastics and contract manufacturer, to revolutionize injection molding services.

  10. Aliplast Boosts Recycled PET: PET Recycling Site Acquired From Gurit Italia 4/1/2025

    The Hera Group subsidiary, a European leader in plastic regenerating, has integrated Gurit Italia's Carmignano di Brenta plant dedicated to PET recycling, an investment that looks towards the growth of an increasingly important market