Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2025 winners announced at PRS Europe
The winners of the eighth annual Plastics Recycling Awards Europe were announced today at the Plastics Recycling Show Europe in Amsterdam.
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New sales leadership for Syncro Group
After an important career in the industry, culminating with management experience in international companies in the plastics and extrusion industry, Matteo Spinola joins Syncro Group in the role of Sales Director.
BASF receives Operation Clean Sweep certification at all its European production sites
All BASF's European production sites for engineering plastics, polystyrene, expandable polystyrene, polyurethane, thermoplastics polyurethanes, polyamides and specialty polymers are now certified by independent third parties according to the Operation Clean Sweep (OCS) standard.
New Global Sales Director at Erema
Erema has appointed a long-time employee as Global Sales Director: Christoph Wöss, previously Business Development Manager for the Bottle division, will take over the newly created position within the Erema management team on April 1, 2025.
Lindner Washtech: new leadership team, clear vision
In the autumn of 2013, Harald Hoffmann together with Manuel Lindner, owner of the Lindner Group, founded Lindner Washtech. Hoffmann’s vision of designing complete solutions for processing plastics led to the company becoming one of the key stakeholders in plastics recycling.
Gastop-Flex boosts flexible packaging barrier performance
Ampacet Gastop-Flex technology allows to address the trends towards a reduction of plastic packaging wastes and higher circularity.
MuCell: The optimal solution for lightweighting and sustainable manufacturing
MuCell technology has been widely applied in industries such as automotive, electronics, medical, sporting goods, and green manufacturing. Under the growing trends of lightweighting and carbon reduction, it has become a major breakthrough in sustainable and efficient manufacturing.
SABIC, Lamb Weston and Opackgroup create sustainable packaging
SABIC has joined forces with Lamb Weston, a major global brand owner and producer of frozen potato products, in a closed-loop process designed to create low-weight sustainable packaging bags made with a thin coextrusion film structure.
BASF starts up its first plant for recycled polyamide 6
BASF announced the start-up of the world’s first commercial loopamid plant. The production facility at the Caojing site in Shanghai, China, has an annual capacity of 500 metric tons and marks an important step in the supply of sustainable products for the textile industry.
trinamiX expands its portfolio for plastics and textile identification
trinamiX GmbH, a leading provider of mobile spectroscopy solutions and subsidiary of BASF, will participate in the Plastics Recycling Show Europe (PRSE) 2025, taking place in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
RecyClass paves the way for plastic circularity with enhanced Recyclability Methodology
A new version of the Recyclability Methodology has been published in anticipation of upcoming legislative changes. This update ensures continuous support for the plastic value chain in the transition towards circularity.
Filtration efficiency in PET recycling thanks to automated inline cleaning
Large-area filtration faces the stigma of high costs, maintenance efforts, and time-consuming changeover and cleaning activities. However, good filtration is unavoidable with increasing rPET proportions.
