Rubber Street will return to Hall 6 at K 2025, jointly organised by wdk and Messe Düsseldorf. The 500 m2 special area is fully booked with a record 19 exhibitors covering the elastomer and TPE value chain, and will feature reusable flooring made from recycled tyre rubber.
RecyClass says its Recycling Process Certification now covers 60% of Europe’s installed plastics recycling capacity. Stream-level coverage in 2024 reached 58% for HDPE/PP, 62% for ELV-WEEE, 70% for LDPE and 75% for PET.
Alpla marked its 70th anniversary with a review of key innovations and a focus on future investments in digitalisation, automation and circular economy models, while maintaining its system approach to plastic packaging and recycling. The family-owned company operates 200 sites in 46 countries and employs more than 24,000 people.
European Plastics Converters (EuPC), Petcore Europe and Plastics Europe oppose the planned increase in the EU plastic levy from €0.80 to €1 per kilogram of non-recycled plastic packaging waste, warning it will not improve environmental outcomes but will weaken the competitiveness of European industry and accelerate deindustrialisation. The organisations argue the proceeds should flow into a dedicated fund to support the circular economy.
Husky Technologies will present new PET preform systems, mono-material closure technology and enterprise-wide monitoring at Drinktec 2025 in Munich. The launches target higher rPET processing, circular packaging and factory-level operational visibility.
MOL Group has completed its first ISCC PLUS-certified production run with circular feedstock at Tiszaújváros, converting post-consumer plastic waste-based feedstock into PE and PP. The pilot applied a mass balance approach on the steam cracker and downstream polymerization.
Celab Europe will showcase practical pathways for collecting and recycling release liner and matrix waste at Labelexpo Europe 2025 in Barcelona, supporting circularity in the self-adhesive label industry.
Röhm’s Europe-wide PMMA recycling alliance reports significantly higher recovery rates and delivers a taillight demonstrator with 30% mechanically recycled content, developed with Valeo and the Renault Group’s consortium The Future Is Neutral.
K 2025 will again host a Start-up Zone for young technology companies in Hall 7. Twenty exhibitors will present solutions spanning AI, data analytics, bioplastics, digitally supported production and the circular economy, with a Start-up Pitch scheduled for 13 October in Hall 6.
Plastic is Fantastic Association, initiated by the Alpla Group, will make its public debut at K 2025 in Düsseldorf, introducing a fact-based communications initiative for the plastics industry and launching a global campaign.
Duma Recycling outlines LDPE and LLDPE recyclate production using Intarema TVEplus lines with double, laser-assisted filtration. The company appears at K 2025, Hall 7, level 2, G11.
Tomra Recycling has named Lars Enge as its new executive vice president. Enge joined Tomra in 2022 and has led group strategy, set up Tomra Horizon and managed the acquisition of c-trace GmbH.
