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Articles on Circular economy. Daily updated information and news from the plastics industry.
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Plastics saves the future through spiral economy
One of the big and important issues for both industry and individuals is how we can increase sustainability and recycle the material that exists today. One solution is to create new life for previously used material. Scanfill calls it a spiral...
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Puzzle floor from TOMIRTECH, s.r.o.
The puzzle floor is made of recycled SBR rubber granulate, which is glued with polyurethane glue. Its density is up to 1000 kg/m3 and can withstand a really extreme load of up to 290 t/m2 at a thickness of 8 mm. The coefficient of friction of 0.81 (according to VDI 2700 p.14) guarantees a perfect...
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MOL Group and Meraxis will work together to produce recycled plastics
The Swiss Meraxis business group and the leading Central European integrated oil, gas and petrochemical group MOL have entered into a strategic partnership focused on the development and production of recycled polyolefins. The goal is to develop and produce high quality materials based on recycling...
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Sensoneo received a prestigious grant of € 1.368 million from the European Innovation Council
The Slovak technology company Sensoneo, which develops and provides revolutionary solutions for efficient and transparent waste management, has succeeded in the pan-European EIC Accelerator call focused on innovative technological projects supporting the objectives of the European Green...
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Addiplast group expands its engineering plastics range with its ADDIBIO RENEW range of natural fibers and bio-polymers
- 10.08.2020
- Suppliers of raw materials
- Automotive
- Packaging
- Bioplastics
- Circular economy
- Compounds
- PA Polyamide
- PE Polyethylene
- PP Polypropylene
- Recycled plastics
- Technical plastics
- High Performance Polymers
Addiplast Group, founded in 1986, now, has 2 production sites: Addiplast & Addikem in Saint Pal de Mons in France, equipped with twin-screw extruders and Buss co-mixers. Both sites are certified IATF 16949 and ISO 14001 and have a production capacity of 30...
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Juraj Majerský, Wittmann Battenfeld: Where does the plastics industry go?
2019 was a breakthrough year for many industries. Maybe the biggest landmark for the plastics industry. All the mass media and social networks have begun to show pictures of seas full of plastic, animals that have died as a result of plastic waste and information about micro-plastics already found...
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Platform Obehové Slovensko will cooperate with Holland platform Holland Circular Hotspot
The Circular Economy Platform aims to bring together the public, private and third sectors to bring Slovakia closer to a sustainable and greener future. Dialogue, new partnerships and exchanges of experience were supported by a seminar attended by representatives of the OECD and Holland Circular...
The Circulation Slovakia platform wants to contribute to the change of our economic model
- 10.01.2020
- Latest News
- Circular economy
Seven partners from the public, private and non-governmental sectors are setting up the Circulation Slovakia platform. They signed a Memorandum of Cooperation at the Ministry of the Environment of the Slovak...
The Ministry announced a call for a deposit return system administrator
- 16.12.2019
- Latest News
- Circular economy
Backing up beverage plastic bottles and metal cans is again closer to reality. The Ministry of the Environment of the Slovak Republic has announced a call for applications for the administrator of the deposit system for disposable beverage containers. Applications may be submitted in paper and...
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K 2019 gives a Clear Signal for Responsible Handling of Plastics
- 29.10.2019
- Services
- Circular economy
- Exhibitions
K, the leading global trade fair for the plastics and rubber industry, has drawn to a close after eight days. The 3,330 exhibitors from 63 nations proved impressively: plastics continue to be an innovative, indispensable, future-oriented material. But they also unanimously underscored the necessity...
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ENGEL inject 4.0 to achieve new milestone at K 2019
At K 2019 in Düsseldorf, Germany, between October 16th and 23rd, for the first time anywhere in the world, ENGEL is exhibiting its iQ weight control intelligent assistance system for injection moulding processes with a recycled material application, making the great potential inject 4.0 offers for...
Back-up of PET bottles and cans will become a reality in Slovakia since 2022
- 11.09.2019
- Latest News
- Circular economy
Slovakia is the first country in Central Europe to introduce backing up of plastic bottles and cans. It was decided today by deputies of the National Council of the Slovak Republic, when they voted for a new law on the backup of beverage packaging from the workshop of the environment. The new...
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Recycling at Fatra: We give plastic a second chance
- 20.02.2019
- Plastics recycling
- Circular economy
- Plastic regrind
- Recycling technologies
- Recycled plastics
In 2014, Fatra decided to turn into reality a visionary idea: to recycle plastic waste that Fatra produces during the manufacturing process. The company pursued two goals - to reduce the environmental burden of production on the one hand and to increase the economic efficiency of production when...
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BASF launches production of chemically recycled plastic products
The BASF ChemCycling project has shown that chemical recycling offers the possibility to reuse plastic. The new recycling method means a major shift in the circulation...
Decree of the backup packages for beverages published in the Official Gazette
- 28.03.2011
- Latest News
- Circular economy
On 25 March 2011 was published in the Collection of Laws Order Ministry of the Environment. 81/2011 Coll backup, containers for...
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