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A big welcome to our new member Holland Colours.

Holland Colours is a global producer of colorants for the polymer industry. It imagines, creates and manufactures the highest quality solid and liquid colorants and additives. The products are designed to be ideal for coloring PVC, PET and other polymers.

Check out our complete membership here: www.petcore-europe.org/members

We are delighted to welcome our new member CARBIOS.

CARBIOS is a green chemistry company that focuses on discovering and developing enzymatic bioprocesses applied to plastic and textile polymers. The company creates a new generation of fully biodegradable plastics with a controlled lifespan, a process enabling infinite biorecycling of plastic waste (PET) and a new biological pathway for the production of competitive biosourced polymers.

What are the latest developments in the recycling of PET thermoforms in Europe?

Don't miss this opportunity and join us for the latest update on the developments of PET thermoforms recycling in Europe.

The PETCORE EUROPE Working Group on PET Thermoforms organises its free Workshop on 19 September 2017, 10:00 - 12:30. You can choose to participate online via webinar or attend the event in person at our offices in Brussels (Avenue de Cortenbergh 71, 1000 Brussels).

We are delighted to announce that L’Oréal has become new PETCORE EUROPE member.

L’Oréal has devoted itself to beauty for over 100 years. With its unique international portfolio of 34 diverse and complementary brands, the Group generated sales amounting to 25.8 billion euros in 2016 and employs 89,300 people worldwide. As the world’s leading beauty company, L’Oréal is present across all distribution networks: mass market, department stores, pharmacies and drugstores, hair salons, travel retail, branded retail and e-commerce. Research and innovation, and a dedicated research team of 3,870 people, are at the core of L’Oréal’s strategy, working to meet beauty aspirations all over the world. L’Oréal’s sustainability commitment for 2020 “Sharing Beauty With All” sets out ambitious sustainable development objectives across the Group’s value chain.

On 30 May 2017, the final Polymark review meeting took place at the Research Executive Agency (REA) of the European Commission. The Polymark Consortium comprising all partners met with the REA project officer and the technical expert.

PETCORE EUROPE, the Brussels based association representing the complete PET value chain in Europe, welcomes eight new members in 2017: Hordijk, Sukano, Pellenc ST, M&G, SUEZ, Plastipak, Sidel and L’Oréal.

“Gaining additional support from these eight leaders in their respective market sectors is a real asset for PETCORE EUROPE,” outlines Christian Crépet, Executive Director of PETCORE EUROPE. “It clearly reflects how our association aligns the complete PET value chain in Europe in order to work together and speak with one voice."

On 15 March, PETCORE EUROPE and the European Federation of Bottled Waters (EFBW) - on behalf of the Polymark consortium - invited to a Workshop & Training in Brussels. More than 80 experts from the PET value chain, brand owners and researchers gained an insight into this European project that has developed a new technology enabling the identification and sorting of polymers, focusing on PET as a start, in the high-value plastics waste stream.

“We believe that sensor-based sorting technologies hold a key to enabling circular economy for plastics, providing high-grade sorting and boosting recycling quality and yield. Aside from the technical progress made during the Polymark project, we have seen how the entire value chain has embraced marker-based sorting as a crucial next step in improving plastics recycling", explained consortium partner An Vossen from EPRO in the introduction video of the Polymark project.

On 31 March 2017, Patrick Peuch steps down from his role as Executive Director at PETCORE EUROPE. Christian Crépet has been appointed as his successor by the PETCORE EUROPE Board.

"It has been a real pleasure for me to run PETCORE EUROPE for the last four years since the start. With the continuous trust, support and contribution of our members, we have grown PETCORE EUROPE to a reference model and a well-respected European organisation, acknowledging our open-minded approach and pro-active activities, our partnerships and relationships. It is now time for me to step down and to thank you all, and to express my best wishes to my successor," outlined Patrick Peuch during the Annual General Meeting of PETCORE EUROPE.

Following an ODR Workshop on Opaque and Difficult to Recycle PET Packaging in Brussels, PETCORE EUROPE has launched a call for industry representatives to join its ODR Working Group. As PET is now expanding beyond transparent bottles and thermoforms into new applications such as milk and home care containers, Petcore Europe is keen to facilitate a dialogue across the value chain to find sustainable solutions for their recycling ability and end markets for such recycled PET.

The Working Group therefore is organised according to the following six task forces:

Gain an insight in this EU-funded project for a new technology enabling the identification and sorting of polymers, including PET, in the high-value plastics waste stream:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeJsW1Laab0&t=3s

More information: www.polymark.org