PETCORE EUROPE NEWS

PETCORE EUROPE welcomes its two new members: Clariant and Sleever International.

About Clariant

Headquartered in Pratteln near Basel, Switzerland, Clariant is represented by 110 group companies and employs more than 17,000 people globally. The Clariant Group has 4 business areas: Care Chemicals, Catalysis & Energy, Natural Resources and Plastics & Coatings. The sales in 2015 were approximately 5.8 billions CHF.

The demand for PET and other polymers in fresh food rigid packaging is growing fast. Mono-layer trays for e.g. packing fresh fruits and vegetables, and multi-layer sealed trays with lids as seen for fresh meat or food preparations are providing the best packaging assets for the packing, distribution, shelf displays, consumer handling and food conservation at home. But what happens to these thermoformed packaging when they have been used and tossed into the bin?

Petcore Europe article on thermoforms_April 2016.pdf 

PETCORE EUROPE - in collaboration with Procter & Gamble - brought together 100 participants from the PET industry, research facilities and the media for its first Tracer Workshop in Brussels. The event gave an overview on current active tracer projects and intended to stimulate a cross-industry discussion on how to harmonise the use of tracers in plastics packaging materials. The focus lied on PET as a start, intending to create a precedent for other plastics later on.

24-02-2016 Tracer WS_agenda.pdf 

160 experts and leaders from the entire PET value chain in Europe and beyond met at the 2016 Petcore Europe sold-out conference in Brussels on 23 February.

“This huge success of our annual conference outlines the importance of this event for participants from all sectors of the PET value chain,” explains Roberto Bertaggia, Petcore Europe President. “We were delighted to welcome so many representatives, from PET resin manufacturers to packaging designers and converters, leading brand owners using PET, waste management organisations and PET recyclers, other related components and machinery equipment as well as the media.”

PLASTICS RECYCLING SHOW EUROPE IS CANCELLED DUE TO SERIOUS EVENTS THAT TOOK PLACE IN BRUSSELS ON MARCH 22ND, THE ORGANISERS OF THE PRSE SHOW HAVE HAD NO OTHER OPTION BUT TO CANCEL THE SHOW.THE SAFETY AND SECURITY OF OUR EXHIBITORS, VISITORS, STAFF AND SUPPLIERS REMAINS OUR ABSOLUTE PRIORITY.

We are delighted to welcome UPM Raflatac as new Petcore Europe member in 2016.

UPM Raflatac is one of the world’s leading producers of self-adhesive label materials. It supplies high-quality paper and film labelstock for consumer product and industrial labelling through a global network of factories, distribution terminals and sales offices. The company employs around 2,800 people and made sales of EUR 1.2 billion (USD 1.5 billion) in 2014.

The new publiction of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation "The new plastics economy - rethinking the future of plastics" is reporting about the Polymark project. This EU-funded project is a three-year research project funded by the European Commission with the aim of developing a new technology that will enable the identification and sorting of polymers, including PET, in the high-value plastics waste stream. Petcore Europe is part of the Polymark consortium.