News & Events
- News & Events
- Thursday, 05 May 2022
Congratulations to Huhtamaki on tremendous job that they have done. Huhtamaki has recently announced the launch of Push Tab, a first-to-market, aluminium-free, mono-material PET blister lid for the global healthcare and pharmaceutical industries.
- News & Events
- Monday, 04 April 2022
Eastman has entered an exclusive negotiation with Port-Jérôme-sur-Seine as the preferred location of the molecular recycling facility it plans to build in France.
- News & Events
- Wednesday, 30 March 2022
Follow the latest news from PETCORE EUROPE.
- News & Events
- Friday, 18 March 2022
Today on World Recycling Day remember that PET is fully recyclable and made to be remade. PET - 1 material of choice for recycling. You can tell that it is PET by the 1 on the bottom.
- News & Events
- Tuesday, 08 March 2022
While PET is already 100% recyclable & made to be remade, on the 2nd of March 2022 the United Nations Environment Assembly in Nairobi (UNEA 5.2) agreed to develop a treaty on plastic pollution. The objective is to promote the sustainable production & consumption of plastics.
An intergovernmental negotiating committee will negotiate the details & complete its work by 2024.
- News & Events
- Tuesday, 01 March 2022
Carbios to build in France its first-of-a-kind manufacturing plant for fully bio-recycled PET in partnership with Indorama Ventures. This important step of the development will undoubtedly benefit the chemical and enzymatic recycling players, to present these technologies as complementary to mechanical recycling and to move PET recycling into large scale operations. Indorama’s co-investment to accommodate this unit is highlighting its confidence in PET enzymatic recycling.
- News & Events
- Wednesday, 16 February 2022
PETCORE EUROPE as a member of PolyREC® is thrilled to announce that PolyREC® has been recognized as a data collector for the Circular Plastics Alliance (CPA) and RecoTrace™ now is the first comprehensive data system to monitor plastic recycling and recycled plastics use.
- News & Events
- Thursday, 27 January 2022
This report, delivered by PRE in partnership with PETCORE EUROPE, NMWE and UNESDA Soft Drinks Europe, provides the latest data and trends on: the current state of the PET market in Europe, key changes impacting the market and the challenges faced by the supply chain and also talks about how the future PET market will look like.
- News & Events
- Tuesday, 25 January 2022
EPBP and RecyClass sign off strategic collaboration.
- News & Events
- Friday, 21 January 2022
Eastman to invest up to $1 billion to accelerate circular economy through building world’s largest molecular plastics recycling facility in France.
French President Emmanuel Macron and Eastman (NYSE:EMN) Board Chair and CEO Mark Costa will jointly announce Eastman’s plan to invest up to $1 billion in a material-to-material molecular recycling facility in France. This facility would use Eastman’s polyester renewal technology to recycle up to 160,000 metric tonnes annually of hard-to-recycle plastic waste that is currently being incinerated.
- News & Events
- Thursday, 30 December 2021
This is the fourth newsletter of 2021 that is featuring messages from our President and our Executive Director, updates on activities by our Working Groups, our Communications Campaign, Social Media, policy and regulatory developments at EU and national level, information about our internal structure and many other interesting insights.
- News & Events
- Tuesday, 21 December 2021
All bottles 100% rPET
Nutroma's goal for the future? That all the bottles are made of 100% rPET. This is how they strive for circular packaging. In other words: products that are recycled again and again so that they can make new ones. Nutroma is not quite there yet, but they're working on it. And that is an important first step.