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CCL Industries announces capacity investment Siemens partners with Linde to accelerate
at Innovia Films unit petrochemical decarbonisation
iemens Energy and Linde Engineering have entered
pecialty label, security and packaging solutions
Sinto a strategic partnership. As part of the
Sprovider CCL Industries has planned for a strategic
collaboration agreement, the two companies will
new capacity investment at its Innovia Films unit. As leverage their complementary portfolios and
part of the investment, the company will install a new competencies to investigate, develop, and optimise
6m co-extrusion line at one of its continental European technology and equipment packages to enhance the
sustainability and performance of petrochemical
facilities. The new multi-layer line will manufacture
facilities (brownfields and greenfields).The companies
hybrid polyolefin film named as “Ecofloat”. The shrink will jointly conduct studies that explore how Siemens
films allow labels from PET bottles and other types of Energy's and Linde Engineering's technologies can be
plastic containers to separate easily in the recycling combined to facilitate the decarbonisation of
petrochemical plants through emissions reductions and
process. It also helps enable bottle-to-bottle
increases in energy efficiency – for example, by
circularity. With most of the capital deployed in 2021,
optimising the consumption of power and steam.
Particular areas that will be evaluated include, but are
not limited to, the use of Siemens Energy's products,
including gas turbines, steam turbines, compressors, and
the capacity will come online in early 2022. Innovia and
CCL Food & Beverage business president Guenther
Birkner said: “Many consumers and brand owners value generators with Linde Engineering's steam cracker
the convenience and reclose capability of plastic technology and related processes for olefin production,
purification, and separation. The companies will also
bottles and containers but also recognise these can no
explore how renewable technologies and energy storage
longer clutter the world's waste streams and must can be leveraged to support customers' decarbonisation
become circular in use. “Easy removability of labels to initiatives. Other key performance areas that will be
avoid contaminating post-consumer resins is therefore targeted for improvement include plant availability and
uptime, maintenance, OPEX and CAPEX, and regulatory
mission critical and our exciting new, proprietary
compliance. “The core competencies and technology
Ecofloat development brings a unique solution to this
portfolios of Siemens Energy and Linde Engineering are
industry dilemma. “We anticipate a considerable highly complementary,” said Thorbjoern Fors, Executive
portion of the new capacity will be used internally by Vice President for Siemens Energy Industrial
our CCL Label operations, which supply many of the Applications. “Our experience in designing and building
low-emissions energy systems, coupled with Linde
world's leading brands.” Operating 183 production
Engineering's expertise in steam cracker technology and
facilities in 42 countries, CCL Industries is a converter other downstream processes, will enable us to unlock
of pressure sensitive and specialty extruded film tremendous value for petrochemical customers, who are
materials for consumer packaging, healthcare & under intense pressure to reduce costs and decarbonise.”
John van der Velden, Senior Vice President Global Sales &
chemicals markets and more. In September this year,
Technology at Linde Engineering said, “The partnership
CCL Industries committed to make packaged goods to
builds on the longstanding and trustful business
be recyclable, reusable or compostable by 2025 and relationship that Siemens and Linde Engineering have
cut waste by level 90% globally by 2025. maintained for decades.”
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