Sartomer (Exton, PA), a producer of specialty resins, has opened a plastics lab at its headquarter to help develop its global plastics business.
A study conduct last year by Consultic (Alzenau, Germany) has concluded that 95% of all post-consumer plastics packaging is collected for recycling and 100% of all post-production plastics waste in the country is in some form reused rather than disposed of in landfill.
The German plastics processors’ association GKV (Frankfurt) is joining the country’s plastics producers (PlasticsEurope), and the producers of plastics and rubber processing machinery (VDMA) to create the WVK as a consolidated organization within the Federal Association of German Industry (BDI), so that it can better lobby the country’s federal government on issues such as energy costs and resource efficiency. The new organization will be introduced on June 18 in Frankfurt.
