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CarbonLite Plastic Recycling Facility Moves Forward

June 11, 2014June 10, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

CarbonLite Recycling, an HPC company, has signed contracts for the supply of primary process equipment to be installed in its new plastic recycling facility in Abilene, Texas. The 200,000-square-foot plant will annually recycle about 100 million pounds of beverage bottles into PET pellets that can be used to make new ... Read more »

DAK Acquires Food-Grade PET Recycling Operation

May 19, 2014May 21, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

DAK Americas, a producer of plastic polyethylene terephthalate (PET) resins in Argentina, has acquired CabelmaPET, a PET bottle recycling operation located in Pacheco, Buenos Aires, Argentina, that produces food-grade recycled raw materials from PET bottles. Terms and conditions of the acquisition were not disclosed. The acquired facility currently recycles more ... Read more »

Plastic Bottle Recycling, Recycled PET Price Increases

April 25, 2014April 24, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Plastic polyethylene terephthalate bottle recycling has increased 53 percent in 12 years. According to the National Association for PET Container Resources, in 2012, 31.8 percent of PET bottles in the US were recycled or 859,000 tons. This is up 6.6 percent from 2011’s 802,000 tons, and up by 53 percent ... Read more »

PET Market to be Worth $60 Billion by 2019

April 21, 2014April 21, 2014 by Leon Walker

The global PET packaging market will have grown substantially by 2019, but some manufacturers believe opportunities for lightweighting may have been all but exhausted, according to a report by Smithers Pira. The market will amount to 19.9 million tons and be worth $60 billion by 2019, up from just under 16 ... Read more »

ECO Plastics, Viridor Sign Closed-Loop Bottle Recycling Agreement

January 9, 2014January 9, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Plastic bottle recycler ECO Plastics UK recycling giant Viridor have signed a multi-million pound agreement that will see Viridor supply 10,000 metric tons of plastic bottles to ECO for recycling through 2014. Under the one-year contract, Viridor will supply almost 8 percent of ECO Plastics’ total capacity. The company’s Hemswell ... Read more »

UK Plastics Recycler Expands, Meets Growing Dairy Industry Needs

November 22, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Closed Loop Recycling is expanding its HDPE recycling capabilities to meet the demands of the dairy industry, which increasingly requires higher levels of rHDPE in its milk bottles. The UK-based plastics recycler, which says it was the first to recycle both PET and HDPE plastic bottles into food grade material ... Read more »

APPE Produces Recycled PET Bottle for Oji Beverage

November 19, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

PET packaging firm APPE, along with beverage maker Oji and consumer-foods group Hero, has produced a 100 percent recycled PET bottle for Oji’s fruit drink. The new bottle will help the company achieve a closed-loop recycling system as the product can be recycled and reused to make a new rPET ... Read more »

‘Bottle-to-Bottle’ Recycling Plant Signs Nestlé Waters as Customer

October 17, 2013October 17, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

CarbonLite plans to build a “bottle-to-bottle” recycling plant in Abilene, Texas, that will process used plastic beverage bottles into food-grade raw material to make into new bottles. Nestlé Waters will be a major customer, according to the company. The company says the plant will process around 1.6 billion used bottles ... Read more »

Bio-Tec Patents Environmentally Friendly Plastic Method

August 29, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Bio-Tec Environmental has patented a method of creating a layered polymeric plastic or composite. The biodegradable-plastics company has been granted US Patent 8,222,316 and foreign equivalents for this process. Products that combine the patented method with Bio-Tec’s patent-pending formulations are under development, the company says. Bio-Tec has also received a ... Read more »

Gevo, Coke, Toray Partner on Renewable PET Technology

August 27, 2013August 27, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Gevo, with support from the Coca-Cola Company and Japanese chemical giant Toray Industries, has opened a demonstration-scale paraxylene plant in Silsbee, Texas. The paraxylene facility is located adjacent to the renewable chemicals and biofuels firm’s existing jet fuel plant in Silsbee. Gevo says it establishes the site as a biorefinery ... Read more »

Green Plastics Process Discovered

June 4, 2013July 9, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers have discovered a new chemical process to make p-xylene, an important ingredient of common plastics, at 90 percent yield from lignocellulosic biomass, the highest yield achieved to date. Xylene chemicals are used to produce PET (polyethylene terephthalate), which is used in many products including soda ... Read more »

Plastic Recyclers Address Full Wrap Shrink Label Contamination

May 15, 2013June 16, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

The Association of Postconsumer Plastics Recyclers, whose members represent more than 90 percent of the processors of postconsumer plastic bottles in the US, Canada and Mexico, have formed a group to address the rapid growth of full wrap shrink sleeve labels in the marketplace. APR director Steve Alexander says full ... Read more »

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