Circular economy - Current News Articles
Articles on Circular economy. Daily updated information and news from the plastics industry.
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Polykemi Group’s material-smart life cycle analysis – now with third-party certification
In the autumn of 2021, Polykemi Group launched materialsmart.info, a website based on a scientific study that helps customers reduce their carbon footprint. The reliability of the study is now confirmed with an objective third-party...
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ORLEN Unipetrol and Pražská plynárenská will work together to develop hydrogen mobility and reduce emissions
- 23.02.2022
- Suppliers of raw materials
- Circular economy
The largest Czech refinery and petrochemical group ORLEN Unipetrol and one of the most important Czech energy companies, Pražská plynárenská, have signed a memorandum of mutual cooperation. The subject of the memorandum is the transfer of experience and future cooperation, especially in the areas...
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German companies want to support sustainability in Slovakia
- 02.11.2021
- Services
- Circular economy
- Business economics
The leaders of 13 major companies from six different sectors commit themselves in a joint memorandum to promoting a sustainable economy. Companies, mainly from Germany, support measures aimed at reducing CO2 production, protecting natural resources and, as far as possible, enabling the development...
Effective and practical solutions for waste recycling are offered by Hard Plastic Recycling s.r.o.
Hard Plastic Recycling s.r.o is a company that specializes in the recycling and efficient processing of various types of plastics in waste...
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Reduce your company’s carbon footprint with material-smart choices
Polykemi Group is making a major investment to help companies reduce their carbon footprint. The company is using a scientific study to provide customers information on how their material choices affect the...
Participate in the conference Perspectives of the use of plastics in the conditions of circular economy
- 02.09.2021
- Latest News
- Events
- Circular economy
UNIPLAST BRNO - společnost zpracovatelů plastů, z.s. invites you to a conference, where you will get acquainted with new opportunities for the use of plastics in the conditions of the circular economy with the support of leading Czech and foreign experts. The seminar will take place on 15 - 16...
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ARBURG on Uniplast: Serious about sustainability
ARBURG has always been very committed to the environment and the careful use of resources. At Uniplast 2021, our work will be presented by Bertram Stern, Team Leader for Sustainability and Circular Economics and co-creator of the arburgGREENworld...
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Waste is first and foremost a business. Only then can we talk about ecology
- 25.08.2021
- Services
- Circular economy
- Interview
Back up PET bottles? According to waste management expert Alena Myslivcová Fučíková from the University of Hradec Králové, this is not as great a solution as it seems at first glance. As well as packaging, bioplastics, wooden toothbrushes or the pursuit of zero waste life. It would not waste...
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K.D. Feddersen distributes recompounds from Aurora Kunststoffe GmbH
Since 2014, the Hamburg-based plastics distributor K.D. Feddersen has been cooperating with Aurora Kunststoffe GmbH, a manufacturer of high-quality engineering recompounds based in...
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Fakuma 2021 - circular economics as one of the main topics
- 11.08.2021
- Services
- Circular economy
- FAKUMA
The 27th Fakuma international trade fair for plastics processing extends its invitation to the live trade fair in Friedrichshafen from the 12th through the 16th of October, 2021. In addition to the issues of injection moulding, extrusion technology and thermoforming, the industry highlight will...
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ELEKTRO RECYCLING s.r.o. - How to get quality recycled plastic from electrical waste?
The company ELEKTRO RECYCLING, s.r.o. deals with the processing of electrical waste and portable batteries, while ensuring the processing and subsequent recovery of all categories of discarded electrical equipment. We process approximately 16,000 tons of electrical waste per year and achieve an...
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The circular economy is getting closer to companies in the border regions of Slovakia and Hungary, it is brought by the CircularRegions project
- 13.05.2021
- Services
- Circular economy
In order for the circular economy to become a common practice in every business, we must show entrepreneurs the way and guide them through the first steps to successful transformation. This project will design a service for companies that want to turn their business models into circular ones. This...
Obligation to submit an application for the conclusion of a contract with the Administrator of the backup system by 18 May 2021
- 04.05.2021
- Latest News
- Circular economy
Producers who market beverages in back-up disposable packaging and distributors who distribute beverages in back-up disposable packaging to the end user are obliged to request the Advance System Administrator to enter into a performance contract under the Advance Act by 18 May 2021 at the...
The Italian-Czech Chamber of Commerce and Industry invites you to the ECOMONDO trade fair
The Italian-Czech Chamber of Commerce and Industry, in the role of the official partner of the Ecomondo trade fair (26-29.10.2021, Rimini, Italy) cordially invites you to the Ecomondo and Key Energy 2021 trade...
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Updated MOL 2030 strategy: The MOL Group will focus on sustainable business and carbon neutrality
The Board reviewed and approved the update of the "MOL Group 2030+" long-term strategy - originally published in October 2016 - which is fully integrated with the new sustainability strategy and complemented by a long-term vision and ambitions beyond...
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Arburg turnkey system sets new standards at Hannover Messe Digital Edition 2021
- 09.04.2021
- Machinery & Equipment
- Automation
- Circular economy
- Smart factory
- HANNOVER
- IIoT - industrial internet of things
- Injection molding machines
The Hannover Messe Digital Edition 2021 will see Arburg present a new turnkey system that is set to raise the bar in aspects of digitalisation, automation and the circular economy in plastics...
Ecological news GRANITOL
- 08.01.2021
- Latest News
- Circular economy
The ECO bag produced by GRANITOL is made of 100% recycled material with a high load...
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Unipetrol has joined the initiative to prevent the release of plastics into the environment
- 28.12.2020
- Services
- Circular economy
Unipetrol consistently continues to implement its strategy in the field of environmental protection and the implementation of the principles of the circular...
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Chemical recycling: Market analysis and trends
The market analysis deals in detail with the chemical recycling of plastic waste: The report identifies the current situation, trends and...
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The MOL Group has again been included in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices
- 08.12.2020
- Suppliers of raw materials
- Circular economy
Following the 2020 assessment process, the MOL Group again qualified for inclusion in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI) in the Upstream & Integrated Oil & Gas...
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The digital edition of Ecomondo and Key Energy is over, the Green Community will meet again in November 2021
- 02.12.2020
- Services
- Events
- Circular economy
Over 5,000 business opportunities generated in the two weeks´ activity on the Italian Exhibition Group´s digital platform. 73,000 views of the profiles of the 400 companies actively using the digital space. With a view to returning to a live expo in Rimini, the circular bioeconomy and renewable...
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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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