Packaging

Packaging

ALPLA Launches ALPLArecycling Brand & Expands Food-Grade rPET Production

Global packaging powerhouse continues its growth as a major international plastics recycler.

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Biopolymers

BASF Opens Biodegradation and Microplastics Center of Excellence

Located at BASF’s site in Wyandotte, Mich., the center will support customers seeking a broad range of biodegradable circular economy solutions.

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PS Prices Plunge, Others Appear to Be Bottoming Out

PS prices to see significant drop, with some potential for a modest downward path for others. 

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Packaging

Services to Help Blow Molders Convert to rPET

Sidel launches “RePETable” range of services as “one-stop” solution to efficient adoption of rPET for bottle production.

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Avantium and SCGC Partner to Scale-Up CO2- Based Polymers to Pilot Plant

SCGC will use Avantium’s Volta Technology which uses electrochemistry to convert CO2 to chemical building blocks such as glycolic acid which combined with lactic acid make carbon-negative PLGA.

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Packaging

UPM Biochemicals and Selenis Form Strategic Alliance to Develop Sustainable PETG

Partnership to develop PETG made from renewable, sustainably sourced forest biomass for use in a variety of packaging applications  

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Packaging

Spring Water Bottler Opens rPET Facility

CG Roxane announced its Tennessee plant, which will produce bottles from rPET flake, is fully operational.

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sustainability

Scavenger for PET and rPET Bottles

Ampacet’s AA Scavenger 0846 said to reduce the level of acetaldehyde in PET and rPET bottles and preserve organoleptic properties

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sustainability

Coca-Cola Europacific Transitions to Tethered Caps and Lighter PET Bottle

Sidel is converting all Coca-Cola PET bottling lines in Europe to meet new EU packaging regulations by July 2024.

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Packaging

Verde Bioresins Enters Planned Business Combination with TLGY Acquisition Corp.

Verde to become publicly traded via this 911爆料网 ‘merger’.

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