Recycling

Packaging’s Part in the Ultra-Processed Food Debate

They are a convenient, comforting, innocent indulgence, say the defenders of so-called ultra-processed foods. Critics trash them as health threats. Packaging is caught in the middle.

June 22, 2026

Plastics/resins

Recycling

PureFive Resin Qualifies as "Recycled Content" Following NJDEP Review

PureCycle Technologies

This designates PureCycle Technologies’ PureFive as a supply option for brands working to comply with New Jersey’s escalating recycled-content mandates for plastic packaging.

June 16, 2026

Webinars

From Pails to Cutlery: Strategies to Optimize Profitability in Consumer Packaging Production

This webinar takes a practical look at how a complete, integrated system approach to molding applications can help you achieve the lowest cost to produce.

July 7, 2026

Sponsors: Husky Technologies

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Recycling

Aliplast Relaunches Its Brand Identity on an International Scale

Aliplast, a Hera Group company

“WHO’S AFRAID OF RECYCLED PLASTICS?”: Aliplast, in collaboration with Heads Group, presents a new narrative on plastic recycling as a strategic industrial resource for the circular economy, within a secure, certified and compliant European supply chain.

May 26, 2026

Sustainability

Aliplast, a Hera Group company

May 26, 2026

Bio-based

Live from interpack: Mars Helps Compostables Find Their Lane

Mars’ Eric Klingenberg and a panel of industry voices at interpack pushed for a more practical definition of compostable packaging’s role in circularity. It's a role that's rooted in regional infrastructure, contamination realities, and specific packaging applications rather than broad replacement claims.

May 18, 2026

Operational Excellence

MECH-I-TRONIC Expands into the Americas to Strengthen Its Global Presence

MECH-I-TRONIC

The mechatronic provider acquires Apex Machine (U.S.) and RK Ferramentaria (Brazil) and aims to reach a target of €500 million (about $586 million) in revenue by 2028, supported by further M&A activity.

May 1, 2026

Podcasts

Through the Line Podcast: ICIS Explains Why the PCR Market is at a Crossroads

Senior Editor Anne Marie Mohan sits down with Andrea Bassetti, Americas Team Lead - Plastics Recycling at ICIS at the 2026 Plastics Recycling Conference. They discuss they complexities of recycled resin supply and demand, and how legislation like EPR could stabilize future demand for post-consumer recycled (PCR) materials.

April 21, 2026

Plastics/resins

SEM Plastik San. ve Tic. A.Ş.

April 20, 2026

Plastics/resins

Recycled Resin Reality Check: Supply, Pricing & CPG Strategy

In this interview, Andrea Bassetti of ICIS unpacks the disconnect between pricing and adoption of PCR plastic, the growing influence of imports, and the key decisions facing CPG companies.

April 17, 2026

Workforce

Charter Next Generation Appoints Mark Howell as Executive Vice President of Sales

Charter Next Generation (CNG)

Leveraging more than 20 years of global leadership experience in packaging and manufacturing, Howell aims to lead CNG's commercial strategy and growth initiatives.

April 2, 2026

Recycling

Brand Owners Hold the Key to Stabilizing U.S. PET Recycling

As domestic rPET demand falters amid imports and low-cost virgin resin, panelists in a recent webinar from The Recycling Partnership say brand purchasing decisions will determine whether the system stabilizes or continues to lose capacity.

March 30, 2026

Bio-based

Selenis to Double Capacity in Portugal by Q3 2027

Selenis

Expansion aims to accelerate the global transition to circular and low-carbon polyesters.

March 23, 2026