NEWS
VinyLoop closes and blames DEHP rules
The VinyLoop PVC recycling business in Ferrara, Italy is closing after making a series of financial losses. VinyLoop is a 60/40 joint venture between Inovyn and Texyloop, which was using a proprietary solvent process for hard-to-recycle soft PVC items. It employs 17 people. A fall in demand for the special type of recycled PVC produced at the VinyLoop plant, driven by increasing product regulation, has severely impacted the business, it said. Francesco Tarantino,
VinyLoop General Manager, said: “Despite every effort in sustaining the loss-making business over the last 15 years, demand for VinyLoop R-PVC has recently collapsed
Alpla and Fromm team up
Alpla and Fromm have agreed a PET recycling collaboration to jointly optimise their respective supplies of waste bottles. Alpla’s plants in
and we have therefore concluded that ongoing operation of the VinyLoop business is no longer sustainable. This has been driven primarily by tighter regulations relating to VinyLoop R-PVC that contains di-ethyl hexyl phthalate plasticiser (DEHP).”
He said Inovyn indicated it did not make sense to further support this special- ised PVC recycling activity and Texyloop could not take full control of the operation. The decision was made by shareholders that it should seek liquidation. �
www.vinyloop.com
Sims boosts WEEE plastics
Sims Recycling Solutions has expanded its WEEE recycling lines at its facility in Eind- hoven, Netherlands. New plastics sorting lines provide a plastic fraction in addition to metals and other materials. Sims said: “This process delivers a clean plastic fraction which can be delivered directly to the
plastics recycler or compounder industry globally.” As requested by its OEM-partners, Sims can choose to process a dedicated batch of products as one single stream and return the plastics to the OEMs. �
www.simsrecycling.com
Wöllersdorf, Austria, and Radomsko, Poland, have an annual capacity of 45,000 tonnes of food- grade rPET. Fromm’s subsidiary Texplast in Wolfen, Germany, produces PET pellets and PET flakes, which are used by Fromm to produce strapping bands and are also supplied to customers making bottles, thermoforming sheet and fibres. “The requirements at
our production sites complement one another very well,” said Georg Lässer, Head of Corpo- rate Recycling Services at Alpla. The packaging group mainly needs clear, food-grade pellets, while Fromm processes coloured flakes for its strapping bands. �
www.alpla.com �
www.fromm-pack.com
Assessment tool for packaging design
A scientific assessment method for recycling-friendly packag- ing design has been developed in Germany. The assessment methodology was developed by recycling groups Interseroh and Bifa and was reviewed by Fraunhofer IVV. The points-based method considers packaging designs in terms of collection, sorting and difficulty of recycling. Interseroh said its packaging optimisation service enables manufacturers to optimise their sales packaging in a targeted manner using a scientifically reliable assessment. �
www.interseroh.de
6 PLASTICS RECYCLING WORLD | July/August 2018
www.plasticsrecyclingworld.com
PHOTO: ALBA GROUP
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