Industry News

  1. D&W Fine Pack Implements 100% Recycled Plastic Products Manufacturing 12/6/2022

    D&W Fine Pack has announced the implementation of a multimillion-dollar investment in sustainability technology at its Fort Wayne, Indiana manufacturing facility

  2. Taiwan Plastics Industry Association Promotes Digital Transformation And Net-Zero Emissions For Higher Value And ESG Goals 11/22/2022

    The Taiwan Plastics Industry Association recently held it 20th Second General meeting at which the organization commended its most outstanding members

  3. LyondellBasell Makes Decision To Progress Advanced Recycling Plant In Wesseling, Germany 11/18/2022

    LyondellBasell today announces it has made a decision to move forward with engineering to build an advanced recycling plant at its Wesseling, Germany, site. Using LyondellBasell's proprietary MoReTec technology, this commercial scale advanced recycling plant would convert pre-treated plastic waste into feedstock for new plastic production.

  4. Kraton's CirKular+™ Additives Receive APR Critical Guidance Recognition For PP Rigid Containers 11/15/2022
  5. Greenbutts Forms Partnership With Industry-Leading Machine Manufacturer - Montrade S.p.A 11/3/2022

    Greenbutts LLC. ("Greenbutts" or the "Company"), is pleased to announce that it has signed a Cooperative Development Agreement ("CDA") with Montrade S.p.A. ("Montrade") (collectively the "Parties")

  6. Orlando Magic Advance Sustainability Efforts With PureCycle's PureZero™ Program 11/2/2022

    PureCycle Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: PCT) and the Orlando Magic are teaming up to divert thousands of pieces of plastic waste from being landfilled or flowing into Central Florida waterways

  7. LyondellBasell And Shakti Plastic Industries Sign Memorandum Of Understanding (MoU) To Advance Mechanical Recycling In India 10/20/2022

    LyondellBasell and Shakti Plastic Industries, India's largest plastic scrap recycler and waste collection company, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to form a joint venture to build and operate a fully-automated, mechanical recycling plant in India

  8. LyondellBasell Forms Joint Venture To Build Plastic Waste Sorting And Recycling Facility And Plans To Build Advanced Recycling Plant 10/11/2022

    LyondellBasell and 23 Oaks Investments, Leiferde/Lower Saxony, Germany, signed an agreement to create Source One Plastics, a joint venture that will build an energy efficient, advanced plastic waste sorting and recycling facility in Germany

  9. Novolex Invests $10M In Indiana Recycling Expansion 9/9/2022

    Novolex®, a leader in packaging choice, innovation and sustainability, announced today that it is investing $10 million to expand capacity to recycle plastic bags and other polyethylene film at its recycling facility in North Vernon, Ind

  10. GC Moves Toward Net Zero Target By Venture Capital Investment In ECONIC, Developer Of Catalyst Technologies For Carbon-To-Value Creation For Sustainable Polymer Production 9/9/2022

    GC Ventures Company Limited (GC Ventures), a subsidiary of PTT Global Chemical Public Company Limited (GC), became one of the investors in Econic Technologies (Econic), a British company using advanced technology to recycle carbon dioxide for use as a raw material in polymer production