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Ascend Focuses on Reducing Product Carbon Footprint Ascend Performance Materials announced today two efforts to reduce the carbon footprint of its products. The company has made its global compounding operations carbon neutral, making it…
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Tracing and Recycling Plastics The cross-company cooperative project R-Cycle was officially launched. The objective is to ensure the recyclability of plastic packaging through seamless documentation of all recycling-relevant packaging…
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Comexi and Reifenhäuser Produce Fully Recyclable All-PE Pouches Reifenhäuser, the experts for plastics extrusion, and Comexi, leading provider of packaging machines, are starting a pilot project for the high-quality recycling of flexible…
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Polifilm Extrusion Starts Pilot Project For the Wholesale Trade Polifilm Extrusion starts an R-Cycle pilot project for the wholesale trade. The aim is to demonstrate how R Cycle works using the example of stretch film in a real application…
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Consortium Members Present Pilot Projects at Second Face-to-Face Meeting On October 6 all the members of the R-Cycle Consortium met for their second strategic face-to-face meeting. Arburg, Kautex Maschinenbau, Reifenhäuser, the Institute…
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STEINERT – Leading Supplier of Recycling Sorting Systems – Joins R-Cycle STEINERT GmbH – market leader for the supply of magnetic separator and sensor sorting systems – is joining the R-Cycle consortium. Recycling plants all over the world…
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Brückner Maschinenbau Tests PU-based Printing Inks for Improved Recycling When it comes to recycling packaging, it is mostly the plastics used that are considered. However, a large proportion of the plastic films used for this purpose are…
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Specialist for Plastics Recycling Machines EREMA Becomes R-Cycle Partner The EREMA Group – a world leader in the development and manufacture of plastics recycling machines and system components – joins the R-Cycle consortium.…
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Expert for Slitting and Winding Technology KAMPF Becomes a Member of the R-Cycle Consortium Slitting and winding are decisive process steps in the production and processing of belt-shaped materials. Kampf Schneid- und Wickeltechnik GmbH…
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R-Cycle Initiative Grows Along the Entire Value Chain The third strategic R-Cycle consortium meeting took place – due to Corona, of course, digitally as a video conference. The results of all operational activities as well as the strategic…
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