NEWS
US ELV project progress
The Plastics Industry Association in the USA said its ongoing End-of- Life Vehicle (ELV) study has already shown the technical and economic feasibility of collecting and recycling certain plastic automotive parts for use in materials in automotive applications or other new products. In the ELV project, 19 companies and organisa- tions are developing a model for how to create new sources of recycled plastics from old cars. Recyclers participating in the project were able to convert bumpers into materials that possessed many of the same qualities as virgin polyolefins.
With completion of phase one of the project, work will continue through phases two and three. �
www.plasticsindustry.org
Pellenc ST and Sesotec start sales partnership
Sesotec of Germany and Pellenc ST of France have made an agreement to sell each other’s optical sorting technologies in certain markets and countries. The agreement covers the distribution of flake sorting equipment for plastics recycling applications in France, Japan and the UK and sensor-based sorting equipment for End-of-Life Vehicles (ELV), metal scrap and the Waste Electrical & Electronics Equipment (WEEE) recycling markets in France and Japan. The companies said the
new partnership responds to fast-paced market growth for optical sorting technolo- gies used by recycling companies looking to improve yields in the context of Circular Economy targets. The new partnership is intended to complement each company’s market and product portfolio, they said. Sesotec has a particular strength in plastics flake
Pellenc ST’s Mistral WEEE sorting system
sorting technology and Pellenc ST makes sorting sys- tems for ELV, WEEE and other applications.
In their announcement, the two companies said new opportunities will be treated on a case-by-case basis with regard to other sales territories and waste sorting applications. They said: “The communication between the teams from Pellenc ST and Sesotec have highlight- ed common values, a similar product and technology approach and a true complementarity that will allow to jointly strengthen their positions.” They also expect the partnership “to
evolve, step-by-step, based on future opportunities”. Michael Perl, Head of
Sorting Recycling for Sesotec, said: “With more than 50 years of combined experience in the waste and recycling market, we decided to pool the state of the art of our sorting technologies to satisfy ever-growing quality standards.” Jean Henin, President of
Pellenc ST, added: “This exciting partnership will enable [us] to provide to our customers complete sorting solutions and to give them better guidance.” �
www.pellencst.com �
www.sesotec.com
Alpla cuts rPET carbon footprint further
The Wöllersdorf recycling facility operated by Alpla subsidiary PET Recycling Team
Rigid packaging giant Alpla has built on its 2017 carbon footprint study on recycled PET produced in-house to incorporate the use of electricity from renewable sources. Last year, Alpla subsidiary PET Recycling Team (PRT) in
Wöllersdorf, Austria, calculated its recycled PET production generated a carbon dioxide equivalent of 0.45 kg for every kilogramme of material produced. A new calculation by C7-Consult has taken into account an “optimised power mix”, resulting in a carbon dioxide equivalent of 0.21 kg. “By switching to electricity from renewable sources, we
have again managed to reduce CO2 emissions by a consid- erable margin,” said Peter Fröschel, plant manager. �
www.alpla.com
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