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PET container recycling rate holds steady at just over 29% for 2011
NAPCOR and APR Report Highest PET Collection Volume to Date
The National Association for PET Container Resources(NAPCOR) and The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR) announced today the release of the“2011 Report on Postconsumer PET Container Recycling Activity.” The ...
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M&G moving ahead with investment of its 1 million ton PET and 1.2 million ton PTA plants at Corpus Christi, Texas
M&G Group, leading producer of PET for packaging applications in the Americas and the market's technological leader, announces that it has purchased the land in Corpus Christi, Texas where it will build its one million tons per year PET plant (2.2 billion pounds) and accompanying ...
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INVISTA acquires intellectual property and licensing rights for PTA, PET and related technologies in Europe, the Middle East and Africa
INVISTA Performance Technologies has acquired from La Seda de Barcelona SA intellectual property relating to its leading purified terephthalic acid (PTA), polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and related process technologies, including the full rights to exclusively license the ...
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New EU Standard will boost use of post-consumer Plastics Recyclates
After two years of work plastics converters, recyclers and collectors have agreed to launch a new European wide certification and audit scheme named EuCertPlast which implements existing CEN standard 14343 on post-consumer plastics recycling.
The project was conducted by EuPR and ...
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Petcore and EuPR publish PET collection figures for 2011 - European collection rate increases to 51% of all PET bottles
Petcore and EuPR announced today that European post-sorting PET collection reached 1.59 Million tonnes in 2011, an increase of 140 Ktes (9.4%) on 2010. For the EU 27 countries growth in collection is stable at 2%. The overall collection rate in 2011 was a record 51% of all PET ...
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50 Years of KHS Brazil
In June 2012 international manufacturer of filling and packaging systems for the beverage, food, and non-food industries KHS is celebrating its 50th anniversary at its production site in Brazil. KHS GmbH is seen as being a reliable partner by a broad customer base across Latin ...
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Recycling of plastic packaging across Canada increases by 15% in a single year
The Canadian Plastics Industry Association (CPIA) released a new report today informing Canadians that their recycling efforts have increased the amount of post-consumer plastic packaging being recycled across Canada. An additional 15% of plastic packaging was recycled in 2010 ...