Azek uses an average of 85% recycled content in its TimberTech Composite Decking. | Photo courtesy Azek
Recycled plastic end user Azek reported higher sales of its residential products in the 2023 fiscal year, a category that includes decking and trim made from recycled PE and PVC. The company also reported increasing its use of recycled plastic throughout 2023. Continue Reading
NOVA Chemicals’ film recycling facility will occupy 450,000 square feet of a 1.7-million-foot building in Connersville, Ind. | Courtesy of NOVA Chemicals
Plastic resin giant NOVA Chemicals will build a large PE film recycling facility in Indiana. The facility will be operated by film specialist Novolex. Continue Reading
The push to sell more recycled PE is part of NOVA’s broader initiative to reduce CO2 emissions. | Photo Courtesy of NOVA Chemicals
NOVA Chemicals is looking to increase the amount of recycled PE it sells, improve its mechanical recycling capabilities and further explore chemical recycling technologies. Continue Reading
Michael Zamora, senior vice president of Product Solutions at ExxonMobil, and Ron Delia, CEO at Amcor, signed the agreement, through which ExxonMobil will sell increasing amounts of recycled resin each year to Amcor. | Courtesy of Amcor
One of the world’s largest packaging producers, Amcor, has signed a deal to buy huge amounts of chemically recycled resin from one of the world’s largest plastics producers, ExxonMobil.
For NOVA Chemicals’ latest recycled resin product, PE is sourced from distribution center flexible film, a blend of back-of-store stretch and front-of-store consumer drop-off. | Courtesy of NOVA Chemicals
NOVA Chemicals launched a 100% mechanically recycled PE resin for use in films such as shrink, e-commerce, heavy-duty sacks and protective packaging.
To meet California’s 15% PCR rate by 2022, U.S. reclaimers need an aggregate additional output of 800,000 tons of food-grade post-consumer PET and PE. | monticello/Shutterstock
A report from Independent Commodity Intelligence Services found that there’s not enough post-consumer resin in the U.S. market to meet California’s mandates, and there are more state mandates coming on-line soon.
Trex reported total sales revenues of $1.2 billion last year, up 36% from the year before. | Vojtaz/Shutterstock
Trex, which recycles over 350 million pounds of PE film scrap a year, dramatically boosted its sales and profits in 2021.
Trex brings in plastic from multiple sources, primarily material coming out of commercial and industrial environments. | Courtesy of Trex
The leader of composite decking manufacturer Trex shared insights on recycled polyethylene markets and sourcing channels in an interview this week.
Early this month, Turkey’s ban on scrap PE imports went into effect. But just days later, the government repealed the regulation. | gd_project / Shutterstock
Shortly after barring recovered PE from import into the country, Turkey’s government has repealed the ban and implemented an enhanced licensing system instead.
End users in the decking and insulation markets reported using more recycled content in 2020. | saravutpics / Shutterstock
Composite decking producer Azek leveraged more recycled material in its 2020 fiscal year, and insulation manufacturer Kingspan reported that it’s now taking in RPET.