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Starlinger Viscotec: Heat Resistant and Fully Recyclable Rpet100 Material Wins Re|focus Sustainable Innovation in Material Award 2022

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April 04, 2022, ... a solid state polycondensation unit, post-consumer PET flakes are decontaminated to produce food grade PET flakes. The material is fit for direct food contact after this super-cleaning process. Plus, the ...

Innovation in Sustainability - Sun Chemical Q&A

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February 24, 2022, ... GR product lines can increase the recyclability of PET bottles through washable flexo and gravure ink technology. These inks can be removed in a controlled way from post-consumer printed packaging, improving ...

Sappi Rockwell Solutions Launches a Sustainable Lidding Film for the Soft Fruit Industry

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November 10, 2021, ... a strong, peelable seal onto a wide variety of substrates including rPET, aPET, PVC and aPET lined paperboard. The film can be produced with 30 percent and 60 percent post-consumer recycled content variants ...

Solvay Announces Groundbreaking Solution for Recycling PVDC

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September 28, 2021, ... other initiatives like recycling post-consumer packaging containing PVDC. “The proof of concept developed by our research team is a solution for PVDC packaging circularity. It shows there is a possibility ...

Sappi Rockwell Solutions Launches a Sustainable, Coated Lidding Film Ahead of the Proposed UK Plastic Packaging Tax

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June 06, 2021, ... Rockwell’s solvent-free coating line. The Starlid GPE-CL coating can be applied onto any film, including those with post-consumer recycled (PCR) content. The company currently coats up to 60 percent ...

TOPAS Advanced Polymers’ Cyclic Olefin Copolymer (COC) Earns Certification as Recyclable Material in Europe

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November 01, 2020, ... valuable material in post-consumer LDPE, mixed polyolefin, and polypropylene recycling streams. Consequently, PE and PP formulations modified with COC can be considered fully recyclable in their respective ...

Another Award for the Joint Sustainability Project

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October 05, 2020, Just one month after receiving the German Packaging Award, one of the world's first PE labels made entirely from post-consumer recycled material and special wash-off adhesive has now also won the "Green ...

Monadnock Announces the New Face of Premium Packaging

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August 23, 2020, ... Performance Board is crafted in the U.S. and is FSC Certified, with 100 percent post-consumer waste recycled fiber. Ideal end-use packaging applications include cosmetics, fragrances, nutraceuticals/CBD, ...

Terphane Barrier Films Improve Shelf Life

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July 29, 2020, Terphane is proactively addressing the demands of the food industry with its barrier films to improve shelf life and help to guarantee product safety. Terphane is proactively addressing the demands ...

Plastics, Packaging and the Environment

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June 29, 2020, ... in large part to food safety concerns.  However, there have been many developments in this area: by undergoing a proprietary process, some forms of post-consumer packaging can be recycled and a portion ...

Innovia Films Launches Encore Sustainable BOPP Films

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June 01, 2020, ... and one for pressure sensitive labelling applications. “This represents the first step in our journey to produce more sustainable films, with the next step being products that contain recycled post-consumer ...

Plastics, Packaging and the Environment

(Flexography)

April 22, 2020, ... in large part to food safety concerns.  However, there have been many developments in this area: by undergoing a proprietary process, some forms of post-consumer packaging can be recycled and a portion ...

AIMCAL Announces Winners During Virtual Award Ceremony

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April 16, 2020, ... CT)/Plastic Suppliers Inc. (Columbus, OH). ProAmpac has developed a high-barrier pouch with 25% post-consumer-recycled (PCR) content. It’s used for Justin’s nut butter covered nuts. A zipper provides ...

European Recycling Markets Reel From Coronavirus

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March 22, 2020, ... and self-isolation on the recycling market. Many will be looking at how used PET bottles are returned to the recycling stream during the outbreak as it comes at a time when post-consumer bottle availability ...

NOW Plastics Packaging Solutions Put Environmental Protection First

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February 04, 2020, ... in the following categories: Post-Consumer Recycled content (PCR) films (PET, BOPA, PE, etc.); Film structures for making packaging recyclable; Bio-based/sustainable sources for raw materials/resins; ...

New Wash-Off Adhesive Optimises PET Recycling

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December 29, 2019, ... by the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (Ifeu) of Heidelberg, “PET is the only plastic which, even as a post-consumer material, can be converted by appropriate recycling methods into recovered ...

Flexible Packages Standing Out in 2019

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December 11, 2019, ... that its production of a high-barrier pouch made with 25 percent post-consumer recycled (PCR) materials for JUSTIN’S® newest product innovation, Nut Butter Covered Nuts. To produce the new pouch, ProAmpac ...

RKW Launches Sustainable Product Line for Packaging Industry

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September 10, 2019, ... on sustainable materials and recyclability. This line encompasses films, which can be used to produce fully recyclable stand-up pouches as well as others, which contain various degrees of recycled post-consumer ...

Agenda set for AIMCAL/SPE Technical Conference

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July 31, 2019, ... and advances related to coating process technology, oriented films, barrier, R2R vacuum technology, system developments, safety and regulatory issues, circularity and post-consumer-recycled content, advanced ...

AWT Launches Terrene Portfolio of Sustainable Label and Packaging Materials

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July 29, 2019, ... our Terrene line.” Depending on sustainability goals and the final application for the package or label, AWT can offer material options which are composed of a high percentage of post-consumer recycled ...