Tag Archives: recycled materials

Škoda Elroq Pioneers Eco-Friendly Interiors with Advanced Recycled Materials

(IN BRIEF) Škoda has unveiled its new Elroq vehicle, which emphasizes sustainability through the use of advanced, eco-friendly materials in its interior design. The Elroq incorporates innovative materials such as Recytitan, made from recycled PET and post-consumer clothing, and Technofil, … Read the full press release

Baltic Power Offshore Wind Farm to Pioneeringly Use Low-Emission Steel for Turbines, Reducing Carbon Footprint by 10%

(IN BRIEF) The Baltic Power offshore wind farm, a collaboration between ORLEN Group and Northland Power, is set to become the world’s first to construct wind turbines using low-emission steel produced predominantly from recycled materials in an electric arc furnace … Read the full press release

Continental’s UltraContact NXT: Leading the Way in Sustainable Tire Manufacturing

(IN BRIEF) Continental has commenced production of its most sustainable series tire, the UltraContact NXT, in Portugal. The summer tire incorporates up to 65 percent renewable, recycled, and certified materials, while maintaining excellent safety and performance. It contains bio-based silica … Read the full press release

SEAT Makes History as First Car Manufacturer to Utilize Recycled Materials from the Ocean

(IN BRIEF) SEAT is partnering with SEAQUAL INITIATIVE and Autoneum to enhance sustainability and circular economy efforts. SEAT becomes the first car manufacturer to utilize LABEL blue by BORGERS® recycled materials, which will help remove over 2 million plastic bottles … Read the full press release

Thermoformed Plastic Packaging Goes Green with Neste and ILLIG’s Strategic Partnership

(IN BRIEF) Neste and ILLIG have formed a strategic partnership to develop sustainable solutions for the production of thermoformed plastic packaging through demonstration cases. The partnership will combine Neste’s expertise in providing renewable and recycled materials for polymers production with … Read the full press release

H&M unveils its latest Edition by collection that celebrates brave and authentic men of style

(PRESS RELEASE) STOCKHOLM, 22-Feb-2022 — /EuropaWire/ — H&M (STO: HM-B), a Swedish multinational clothing-retail company, has announced the launch of its latest Edition by collection that celebrates brave and authentic men of style. The clothing-retail company continues on its ongoing … Read the full press release

Sustainable packaging: Henkel increases recycled plastic in toilet cleaner packaging

(PRESS RELEASE) DUSSELDORF, 8-Feb-2021 — /EuropaWire/ — Henkel strengthens its commitment to sustainable packaging and the promotion of a circular economy with a new, global packaging concept for toilet cleaner bottles. Henkel has significantly increased the amount of recycled polyethylene … Read the full press release

Pyrum Innovations AG to expand tire pyrolysis capacity with EUR 16 million backing from BASF SE

Investment will support construction of additional production capacities for pyrolysis oil Milestone in establishing a circular economy for post-consumer plastic waste Pyrolysis oil will partly replace fossil feedstock and be used for demanding plastic applications (PRESS RELEASE) LUDWIGSHAFEN, 21-Sep-2020 — … Read the full press release

Royal DSM new office carpet collection designed for circularity to address the 1.6 billion tons of carpet trashed annually in Europe

(PRESS RELEASE) HEERLEN, 2-Jun-2020 — /EuropaWire/ — The Nutrition, Health and Sustainable Living company Royal DSM has announced that DSM-Niaga is to launch new carpet collection called Again™, which is a commercial broadloom carpet designed for circularity and is specifically … Read the full press release

Total to increase the supply of recycled polypropylene for automotive applications with Synova’s acquisition 

(PRESS RELEASE) PARIS, 18-Feb-2019 — /EuropaWire/ — Synova, based in France and leader in manufacturing high-performance recycled polypropylene for the automotive sector, has been acquired by Total. The deal’s amount has not been disclosed. Following the acquisition, Total’s polymers know-how will be combined … Read the full press release