Sustainability & Recycling

MULTIVAC - the World's Leading Manufacturer of Integrated Packaging Solutions - Becomes an R-Cycle Partner. MULTIVAC joins the cross-company initiative R-Cycle. The aim is to jointly drive forward the circular economy for plastic packaging on the basis of an open and globally applicable tracing standard....

Aloxe Invests 50 Million Euros to Become the Independent European Leader in Recycled Pet. At this K Trade Fair 2022, Aloxe announces €50 million investments in Pet recycling in the 3 countries where it is already established (France, Poland, Italy). With 120 000 tons of...

BOBST Aims to Help Close the Plastic Loop With R-Cycle BOBST, one of the world’s leading suppliers to the packaging industry, tests the R-Cycle data standard and is launching a pilot project to automatically record recycling-relevant information during the processing of plastic films. The aim of...

R-Cycle Complements Cooperation Project for a Pioneering Recycling Concept R-Cycle Partner Reifenhäuser announced, together with the key industry players Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics (P&SP), a business unit of Dow (NYSE: DOW), HP Indigo, Cadel Deinking and Karlville, the successful delivery of the first-of-its-kind pouch-to-pouch...

R-Cycle Nominated for the German Innovation Award for Climate and Environment 2022 The cross-industry initiative for high-quality plastics recycling “R-Cycle” has been nominated for the German Innovation Award for Climate and Environment (IKU) 2022 of the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWi)....

GS1 Launches Project to Develop Guideline Based on R-Cycle Under the auspices of GS1 Germany, the project PDS4CircularPlastics (Processes and data sharing approach for enabling circular plastics value networks) has been launched. The goal is to develop a GS1 guideline that describes the recycling-relevant process...