Sustainable Plastics - September/October 2022 - 7

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Berry receives FDA approval for
CleanStream recycling technology
Berry Leamington Spa
CleanStream plant.
King Steel, Siemens to
develop greener injection
moulding technology
a tri-party cooperation
agreement between Siemens
Taiwan, King Steel,
and Ruhyih Automation.
The three originally
A tri-party cooperation agreement was
signed between Siemens Taiwan, King Steel,
and Ruhyih Automation.
BERRY GLOBAL'S unique
CleanStream recycling technology,
the first closed-loop
system to mechanically process
domestically recovered
household waste PP back into
food-grade packaging, has
been granted a Letter of No
Objection (LNO) from the US
Food & Drug Administration.
The LNO confirms that the
post-consumer recycled PP
produced by the CleanStream
process can be used in levels
up to 100% recycled content
for food contact applications.
The proprietary technology
is the first to be able to identify
and separate food use items
from mixed domestic collections.
One of its major benefits
is that it can operate within
existing waste management
infrastructures. Automated
sorting and decontamination
processes that integrate online
sensor technologies and
machine learning algorithms
eliminate the need for the
use of marker or other digital
technologies. The PCR-PP
produced by the process has
been extensively tested across
a range of products with extremely
good results.
Berry will produce the
PCR-PP at a £17 million purpose-built
facility in Leamington
Spa, which is due to
go on stream later this year.
The recyclate will be exclusively
available for use in Berry
manufactured packaging
solutions, such as the recently
launched B Circular Range
Beauty Collection.
A THREE-WAY PARTNERSHIP
between Taiwan King Steel
Machinery Co., German multinational
conglomerate Siemens
and industrial equipment
supplier Ruhyih Automation, is
taking its ambitions to a higher
level. The companies aim to
integrate digital twin technologies
into injection moulding
machines, and in this way to
achieve a more energy-eff icient
production process from the
very start. The idea is to achieve
a reduction in energy and carbon
emissions throughout the
entire industry. Representatives
from the three companies met
at the 20th Taiwan-Germany
Joint Business Council Meeting,
where high-level off icials
from both countries' economic
ministries attended to discuss
economic and sustainability
initiatives. The highlight of
the event was the signing of
signed a memorandum
of understanding in 2020,
that was aimed at fostering
knowledge exchange
and technology sharing,
while developing comprehensive
digital integration
and smart production
solutions for local industry. Last
year, they joined forces to promote
Industry 4.0. Through the
present agreement, the three
parties hope to launch Taiwan
to the forefront of a global sustainable
manufacturing push.
King Steel, based in Taichung,
is the world's largest ethylene-vinyl
acetate (EVA) foam
injection molding machine
manufacturer, while Siemens
Digital Industries is an innovator
and technology leader in
industrial automation and digitization.
Siemens Taiwan has
been advocating Industry 4.0,
smart manufacturing, and automation
solutions for some time.
RuhYih Automation, also based
in Taichung, is one of Siemens
distributors, and specialises in
technical services and product
development for the automatic
control industry.
ICIS seminar at K 2022 on hitting sustainability targets in an increasingly volatile marketplace
GIVEN THE EUROPEAN energy
shortages and price hikes
seen in the wake of the Russia/
Ukraine conflict, will the chemical
industry still be able to deliver
on its sustainability strategy?
This is one of the key questions
currently facing the industry that
ICIS will explore in detail during
its 19 October seminar at K-Fair
in Dusseldorf. Governments are
being forced to make plans that
would have previously been unthinkable,
plans that seemingly
derail their net-zero strategy.
An increase in reliance on coal
for power generation impacts the
Scope 2 emissions across the industry,
as Scope 2 pertains to indirect
emissions from purchased
ply chain (Scope 3), which is the
origin of about 65% to 95% of a
product's carbon footprint.
Energy security concerns
Helen McGeough, Senior Analyst at
Plastics Recycling at ICIS
energy such as electricity.
This will heighten the importance
in the near-term in
reducing emissions from direct
operations (Scope 1)-and especially
from the upstream supare
also increasing investment
in alternative energy sources,
such as biofuels and chemical
recycling. As part of the event,
ICIS experts Helen McGeough,
and Mark Victory will be presenting
'Chemical recycling
- future star or black hole?', exploring
how infrastructure and
regulation are still the key barriers
to industry hitting circularity
targets and how waste shortages
are re-writing chemical recycling
economics.
At the same time, high energy
costs are disrupting European
chemical and polymer supply
and demand dynamics, making
forward planning a significant
challenge. At the seminar, ICIS
will outline raw material supply
and demand growth outlooks,
alongside the opportunities
for producers, converters and
brand owners to lower their
Scope 3 emissions.
Buyers and sellers will need
to adapt to a marketplace increasingly
hostile to fossil fuels.
Companies able to achieve low
CO2 equivalent emissions and
circular feedstocks will find vast
opportunities to both profit for
themselves and the wider society
on a global scale. Find ICIS
in hall 8a, stand C20.
September/October 2022
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