IFAT 2022

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Issue 05/2022 Fit for the future

Planned glass deposit system drives development in Hungary

Up until 2016 RE-GLASS Kft., with head office in Orosháza and other yards located in Budapest and Mezőörs, processed 7000 – 8000 t of flat glass per year, while bottle glass – because of the lack of...

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Issue 05/2022

ANDRITZ pilot line for post- consumer textile recycling

Lounais-Suomen Jätehuolto (LSJH) in Paimio/Finland, has successfully started up a new ANDRITZ pilot line for research and development work on post-consumer textile recycling. The Exel tearing machine...

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Issue 05/2022 Extremely powerful

Eagle 3 – the new generation of shears 

Mantovanibenne presented Eagle 3, the new generation of shears: compact and extremely powerful. „Since the first SH shear produced in Italy in the early 1990s,” says Paolo Mantovani, CEO of...

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Fraunhofer Institute for Structural Durability and System Reliability LBF

New methods for reliable lifetime estimation of plastic recyclates

Recyclates make products sustainable and competitive. Safety and reliable function must be guaranteed. At K 2022 in Düsseldorf, researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Structural Durability and...

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ENGEL AUSTRIA GmbH

High recycling quality directly from plastic flakes

With a new process, ENGEL makes it possible to process plastic waste as flakes in injection moulding directly after grinding. Since pelletising as a separate process step is eliminated, the innovation...

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Funding circular economy innovation in Europe

The European Commission is taking part in Ecomondo 2022 – from 8 to 11 November 2022 at the Rimini Expo Centre – to bring visitors up to speed with the latest European funding opportunities for the...

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Parry & Evans recover metal with Bunting Magnetic Separators

Recycling specialist Parry & Evans has installed Bunting magnetic separators to recover metal from pre-sorted domestic waste. At their Deeside plant in the United Kingdom, the company uses a Permanent...

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Plastics Recycling Show Europe Attendance Tops 5000

The Plastics Recycling Show Europe (PRSE) 2022 exhibition and conference held recently in Amsterdam, The Netherlands attracted a record number of visitors and exhibitors from across Europe and 80 diff...

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European project on increased use of recycled plastics in electronics has started

Increasing the share of recycled plastics in new products is a central aspect of the European Strategy for Plastics, adopted by the European Commission in 2018 as a part of the first Circular Economy...

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Aquapak calls for an accelerated investment in sorting and separation technologies to help unlock plastics recycling

Dr John Williams, Chief Technology Officer, Aquapak, the speciality polymers business which develops innovative materials enabling the circular economy, comments that for many years the waste industry...

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