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Coveris Invests in Extruders to Modernize its Facility
ink with up to two colours on both
recently acquired an extruder to bolster sides, either continuous or registered, to
its machinery and production of shrink help Coveris meet its customers’ increas-
and stretch hoods for industrial appli- ing communication requirements.
cations. The investment is intended to The company’s new range of recyclable
meet growing demand for recyclable and recycled shrink hoods and stretch
and recycled flexible packaging materi- hoods are part of its aim of generating
als. Coveris’ five-layer coextrusion tech- no waste at its sites. Its facilities at Wins-
nology extruder is designed to increase ford, UK, and Kufstein, Austria, are also
the plant’s capacity for manufacturing equipped to manufacture stretch hood
shrink and stretch hoods, including films with recycled content. Earlier this
recycled materials. These recycled ma- month, the company introduced a range
terials include post-consumer recycled of lightweight stretch films containing
(PCR) plastic and post-industrial recy- 30% recycled content. The company
cled plastic. The equipment allows Cov- claims that the films are the thinnest
eris to provide a standard or non-stick recycled stretch films currently on the
shrink hood with optimised thickness market. They are available in both hand
while incorporating recycled material of and pre-stretch formats. The films were
50% or more. In addition, with this ad- developed at Coveris’ Winford facil-
vanced extruder, the company can offer ity according to the company’s circular
ustainable packaging company Cov- a range of thin stretch hoods contain- manufacturing process, using recycled
Seris is investing to modernise its fa- ing 30% recycled content. The machine polythene from post-consumer waste
cility in Montfaucon, France. The firm provides in-line printing, water-based streams

Carbios and Indorama Ventures to Build Bio-Recycled PET Facility

scheduled to open in 2025.The plant the use of hydrocarbons.”Indorama
will be equipped with Carbios’ PET Ventures also plans to co-invest in this
bio-recycling technology and will have project and intends to expand Carbios’
the capability to process 50,000t of PET biological recycling processes to other
waste a year. The bio-recycling PET pro- PET facilities in the future. Carbios
ject is expected to require an investment CEO Emmanuel Ladent said: “With
of around €150m ($168.7m) for Car- this first medium-sized plant, we want
bios’ core technology, which includes a to become the world reference for the
further purification stage. An additional circular economy of plastics and tex-
investment of €50m will also be ear- tiles. “By engaging in such a partner-
marked for preparing infrastructure at ship with Indorama Ventures, we con-
the site. The project is intended to help firm our commitment to pursue our
meet the growing demands of consum- initial industrial development in France.
ers and consumer goods companies for “This plant will pave the way towards
more sustainable packaging. . Indorama international commercial and indus-
arbios has collaborated with Thai- Ventures CEO DK Agarwal said: “We trial deployment. “We are grateful to
Cland-based petrochemical firm In- are pleased to implement Carbios’ inno- our shareholders, partners, the French
dorama Ventures to build a manufactur- vative and transformative technology at government and Grand-Est Region for
ing plant for bio-recycled polyethylene our Longlaville site. “Bio-recycled PET sharing Carbios’ ambitions and vision
terephthalate (PET). Located at Indora- addresses customers’ growing demand towards a profitable circular economy
ma’s PET production site in Longlaville, to contribute to a cleaner planet through
France, the manufacturing plant is high-quality plastics while decreasing

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