News & Events
- News & Events
- Sunday, 28 April 2019
Nestlé Waters, PepsiCo and Suntory Beverage & Food Europe join Consortium founded by Carbios and L’Oréal to support the world’s first enzymatic technology for the recycling of plastics.
- Key global players team up to boost recyclability of PET plastic products
- Biological technology fundamentally changes the way PET plastic is recycled
- Consortium aims to help make a circular plastic economy an industrial reality
- News & Events
- Monday, 15 April 2019
During last week's Plastics Recycling Show Europe in Amsterdam, Gian De Belder, Packaging Technologist at Procter & Gamble received the "Plastics Recycling Ambassador" Award for 2019. Gian is active in many different associations working on improved recyclability and recycling. At Petcore Europe he is not only an active member of the Board of Directors since October 2017 but also the Chairman of the ODR (Opaque and difficult to recycle) PET Working Group. P&G joined Petcore Europe in 2015 as the first FMCG company (since then eight further major brands became member). Gian also runs the Holy Grail project of the New Plastics Economy initiative focusing on markers/watermarks in packaging for improved high-quality sorting and recycling.
- News & Events
- Thursday, 11 April 2019
Last week, DuPont Teijin Films announced the launch of its LuxCR™ depolymerisation process which upcycles post consumer waste into a variety of technically advanced BOPET films serving a wide range of applications and markets. The use of recycled content is a critical part of DuPont Teijin Films’ circular economy strategy, and the upcycling of PET through the LuxCR™ process also marks an important step forward in the chemical recycling technology for the wider polyester industry.
- News & Events
- Tuesday, 26 March 2019
Collection and sorting is the way forward | Petcore Europe Lunch Discussion in the European Parliament on 20 March 2019
Since 1993, the entire PET (PolyEthylene Terephthalate) value chain has been ready to industrially recycle PET, to an extent that the PET recycling companies have always been in overcapacity in the EU. Ambitious recycling targets have been set by the EU Plastics Strategy; to make sure that the collection and sorting will meet the recycling capacities, Petcore Europe and the Parliament Magazine organised two round table discussion in the European Parliament. During the first one on 19 February, the PET industry shared best practices with EU policymakers, NGOs and stakeholders alike.
- News & Events
- Friday, 29 March 2019
Follow the latest news of Petcore Europe. This is the first newsletter of 2019 featuring updates of our Petcore Europe Conference 2019, Round Table Discussions in the European Parliament and much more.
- News & Events
- Tuesday, 05 March 2019
63 individual company members and six European associations work together in the European PET value chain association. Petcore Europe, the Brussels based association representing the entire PET (PolyEthylene Terephthalate) value chain in Europe, increases its competence by welcoming twelve new members in 2019: Bandera, IFPEN - French Institute of Petroleum Energies nouvelles, Point Plastic, AFA Dispensing, Remondis PET Recycling, CUMAPOL, RETAL Industries, PepsiCo, Mitsubishi Polyester Films, Suntory, Digimarc and Finat.
- News & Events
- Wednesday, 20 February 2019
Best Practices for Harmonised Collection & Sorting | Breakfast Discussion in the European Parliament on 19 February 2019
The entire PET industry has set itself ambitious recycling targets and is committed to increase its role in the circular economy. Petcore Europe and the Parliament Magazine therefore organised a breakfast discussion in the European Parliament to present the PET industry's best practices and to bring together EU policymakers, NGOs and stakeholders alike to discuss the PET recyclers’ unused capacity. The event was kindly hosted by MEP Maria Spyraki.
- News & Events
- Thursday, 14 February 2019
Petcore Europe ODR Working Group achieves a 3-year temporary endorsement for perforated sleeves on Household and Personal Care (HPC) PET bottles by the European PET Bottle Platform
- News & Events
- Wednesday, 13 February 2019
Each year the European PET value chain meets in Brussels for the annual Petcore Europe Conference. Due to its continued success over recent past, this year the two day conference was held at a new venue to welcome more than 280 industry delegates
- News & Events
- Tuesday, 15 January 2019
DuPont Teijin Films launched new Mylar® Harvest Fresh rPET range of heat sealable polyester films with up to 50 percent post-consumer recycled rPET content.
