 Equipment from New Jersey-based Witte Co. combines the functions of multiple pellet-processing machines into one unit.
Equipment from New Jersey-based Witte Co. combines the functions of multiple pellet-processing machines into one unit.
 Associate Editor Jared Paben has worked for Resource Recycling since December 2014. Most of his earlier career was spent as a reporter for the daily newspaper in Bellingham, Wash., but he also has experience working for the Oregon volunteerism commission and for Oregon nonprofits serving low-income populations. He can be contacted at [email protected].
 Associate Editor Jared Paben has worked for Resource Recycling since December 2014. Most of his earlier career was spent as a reporter for the daily newspaper in Bellingham, Wash., but he also has experience working for the Oregon volunteerism commission and for Oregon nonprofits serving low-income populations. He can be contacted at [email protected]. Equipment from New Jersey-based Witte Co. combines the functions of multiple pellet-processing machines into one unit.
Equipment from New Jersey-based Witte Co. combines the functions of multiple pellet-processing machines into one unit.
 A major end user of recovered PET boosted its revenues last year, as it works to expand its recycled-plastic fiber brand and move into new recycling markets.
A major end user of recovered PET boosted its revenues last year, as it works to expand its recycled-plastic fiber brand and move into new recycling markets.

ReVital Polymers executives and local political leaders gather at the operation’s opening.
A technologically advanced plastics processor has opened in Canada as a successor to the failed reclaimer Entropex.
 International yarn producer Aquafil will invest $10 million to build an Arizona operation generating nylon pellets from post-consumer carpet scrap.
International yarn producer Aquafil will invest $10 million to build an Arizona operation generating nylon pellets from post-consumer carpet scrap.

Construction is underway on the rPlanet Earth facility in Vernon, Calif.
Construction is underway on a massive Los Angeles-area plastics recycling facility that will take PET bales all the way to bottle preforms, extruded sheet and thermoform packaging.

Photo via Wood County, WV E911.
Fire crews have extinguished a blaze at a recycled plastics facility in West Virginia that burned for more than a week, shutting down businesses, government offices and schools.

A proof-of-concept unit by EFT.
A new technology makes it possible for a ship to scoop up ocean plastics, convert them to diesel and use the fuel to power the ship on the same voyage.

A tissue and packaging maker will invest millions of dollars into expanding its ability to use recycled PET and foam PS in its products.

Christoph Wöss, Erema
Two plastics equipment companies recently held a demonstration of what they call the world’s first inline system converting washed PET flakes into bottle pre-forms.
 German company Neue Herbold has re-engineered a plastics pulverizer machine to increase throughput without using more energy.
German company Neue Herbold has re-engineered a plastics pulverizer machine to increase throughput without using more energy.
 
