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AMI postpones European and North American plastics expos


AMI has announced that its plastics industry exhibitions, which were scheduled to take place in Germany in October and in the USA in November this year, have been post- poned to June 2021 and November 2021 respectively. On-going uncertainty created by the Coronavirus pandemic led to the decision to delay the Compounding World, Plastics Recy- cling World, Plastics Extrusion World and Polymer Testing World Expos, said AMI, which publishes Plastics Recycling World. The four focused exhibitions will now be held at Messe Essen in Germany on 1-2 June 2021 and at the Huntington Convention Center in downtown Cleveland, Ohio on 3-4 November 2021. Rita Andrews, Head of Exhibitions at


AMI, said: “We have been reviewing the fast-changing situations in Europe and America daily, and we have been


US asset


purchase Material Difference Technologies (MDT) has announced the acquisi- tion of assets of Replas, based in Houston, US, from LyondellBasell. Replas carries out blending operations for recycled plastics. Mark Stokes, Vice President at MDT, said: “Replas is a great addition to our capabilities. This acquisi- tion is a great fit with what we already do well.” � https://materialdifference- technologies.com


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The next Plastics Recycling World Expo will be in Essen, Germany in June 2021


consulting with exhibitors, the venues, and local authorities. Our primary concerns are for the health and safety of all attendees at our events, and delivering the very best audience for our exhibitors. With these factors in mind, we have taken the decision to postpone both expos to next year”. AMI announced the decisions to


reschedule the events in early August. Andy Beevers, Events Director at the company, said: “We felt it was important


to make and announce these decisions now, in order to end the current uncertainty and to allow exhibitors, speakers and attendees to plan effectively for the new dates. We have had tremendous support and understanding from the industry during this process and are now all looking to forward to returning to Essen and Cleve- land with successful shows next year”. Admission to the four expos and their five conference theatres will continue to be free of charge. Registration for the Essen event will re-open later this year, while registration for Cleveland will restart next year. Visitors who have already registered for the 2020 events will be able to simply renew their free tickets for the 2021 exhibitions. Any companies interested in


exhibiting at the Essen or Cleveland events should contact AMI’s expo team at exhibition_sales@ami.international. � www.ami.international/exhibitions


RevolPET pilot partnership


Leistritz and RITTEC have signed a letter of intent to build a 10 tpa pilot plant in Germany as the first step in commercialising RevolPET recycling technology by the end of 2021. RITTEC’s RevolTEC process converts mixed post-consumer PET waste, including multi-layer and opaque packaging, to component monomers. Anton Fürst, MD of


Leistritz, said the extrusion technology group is looking to expand in the recycling area through the partnership: “We have been working intensively in this segment


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a big step towards successful chemical recycling.” RITTEC has extensive knowledge in the fields of depolymerisation and the purification of monomers. Carsten Eichert of RITTEC said: “Our vision is that our technology will help to solve the global challenge around PET packaging.” Partners in the RevolPET


Anton Fürst, MD of Leistritz


for years. Downcycling or non-recyclable plastic compounds are the limiting factor here. With the Revol- PET approach, we are taking


project include Fraunhofer ICT, ICTV and IWF at Braunschweig TU, Reclay Systems, Schiller Apparate- bau and VTU Deutschland. � www.leistritz.com � https://revolpet.eu


www.plasticsrecyclingworld.com


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IMAGE: AMI


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