Alpla, Ecohelp and UPT opens first PET recycling plant in Romania

The Alpla Group, together with its joint venture partners Ecohelp (Ecohelp SRL – Romania) and UPT (United Polymer Trading AG – Switzerland), has opened its first PET recycling plant in Romania after a construction time of nine months and investment of around 7.5 million euros.   The state-of-the-art plant is now producing around 18,000 tonnes …

Re.life market platform facilitates recycling trades

Re.life market, the virtual marketplace for business-to-business buying and selling of recovered commodities, recorded over 150,000 tonnes of recyclable material being traded on the platform in 2022, amounting to over AED100 million in value. This is a major milestone for the platform, which was launched by Re.life in 2021, and a powerful indicator of the …

Rebound, Bioeconomy and ACX to form Plastics Alliance

Rebound (RPX), a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi’s International Holding Company, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with carbon-focused companies Bioeconomy and ACX Holdings Ltd, the holding company of the AirCarbon Exchange (ACX) group, to identify net-zero carbon and recycled plastics opportunities in the Middle East and around the world.   Plastics are on track …

BOBST launches new evolution of EXPERTFOLD 50 l 80 l 110

BOBST has presented the latest iteration of its pioneering folder-gluer for the folding carton market, EXPERTFOLD 50 l 80 l 110. The new evolution of the machine, one of the most popular in the BOBST line-up, is designed to help packaging printers and converters accomplish more in today’s rapid and resource-intensive converting market.   The …

City Centre Deira launches sustainable pop-up market

City Centre Deira has launched a one-of-a-kind sustainable pop-up market. Running until 7 February, the mall is taking steps to minimise the industry’s carbon footprint by welcoming a host of sustainable brands as customers continue to put their purchasing power towards responsible retail as indicated in the results of the Big City Centre Vote.   …

Dow and LVMH partner to improve sustainable packaging

Dow and LVMH Beauty, a division of LVMH, the world leader in luxury and home to 75 iconic brands, to collaborate to accelerate the use of sustainable packaging across LVMH’s perfume and cosmetic products. This collaboration would enable both bio-based and circular plastics to be integrated into several of the beauty multinational’s product applications without …

Xerox Emirates commits to a green future with its sustainability initiatives

With sustainability at the core of its values, Xerox Emirates to contributing to a green future with the success of its sustainable initiatives launched in the recent years that include the Toner & Cartridge Recycling program with Enviroserve, the Print Releaf program and other internal Recycling initiatives.   In a press release received by Packaging …