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R-Cycle Nominated for the German Innovation Award for Climate and Environment 2022

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R-Cycle Nominated for the German Innovation Award for Climate and Environment 2022

R-Cycle Nominated for the German Innovation Award for Climate and Environment 2022

The cross-industry initiative for high-quality plastics recycling “R-Cycle” has been nominated for the German Innovation Award for Climate and Environment (IKU) 2022 of the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWi). The technical selection was made together with the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI) in Karlsruhe.

The IKU is awarded every two years for ideas that show new ways in the field of climate and environmental protection. In this way, the organizers honor the commitment of industry and research to climate and environmental protection. From a total of 150 applications, 21 candidates were nominated in 7 different categories. R-Cycle is in the final selection for the category “Use of digital change for climate and environmentally friendly innovations”. The announcement of the winners as well as the award ceremony will take place in spring 2022.

Dr. Benedikt Brenken, Director of the R-Cycle Initiative, explains, “Being nominated for this prestigious award is a great honor for us. With R-Cycle, we want to make a decisive contribution, together with all partners, to increasing recycling rates for plastic packaging, enabling high-quality recycling and ultimately establishing a functioning circular economy for this material.”

The newly appointed Federal Minister of Economics, Dr. Robert Habeck, emphasizes: “The many submissions show the enormous potential in the areas of sustainability, circular economy or resource conservation that can still be raised with good ideas!” For many years, the IKU has been drawing attention to technologies, products and services that can make an important contribution to sustainable business. “I am pleased to see that more and more companies are willing to make their contribution to the climate and the environment,” the Federal Minister of Economics continued.

R-Cycle creates the basis for highly developed recycling processes for plastic packaging by automatically recording recycling-relevant properties in a digital product passport during production. Using this additional information, waste sorting plants can identify recyclable packaging, form recycling-friendly and single-variety fractions, and thus enable the recovery of high-quality recyclates.

 

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GS1 Launches Project to Develop Guideline Based on R-Cycle

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GS1 Launches Project to Develop Guideline Based on R-Cycle

GS1 Launches Project to Develop Guideline Based on R-Cycle

Under the auspices of GS1 Germany, the project PDS4CircularPlastics (Processes and data sharing approach for enabling circular plastics value networks) has been launched. The goal is to develop a GS1 guideline that describes the recycling-relevant process steps in plastics production and presents the necessary attributes for data transfer along the value chain. GS1 is the leading global network for cross-industry process development and GS1 standards are used for more than six billion scanned barcodes per day.

The project is based on the results of the R-Cycle Initiative. The recycling-relevant data is stored automatically in so-called digital product passports and can be read and supplemented by all participants in the value chain. This forms the starting point for circular processes and their operationalization.

Dr. Benedikt Brenken, Director of the R-Cycle Initiative, explains: “The step towards GS1 guideline represents an important milestone for us. With GS1 Germany, who have supported us as a founding R-Cycle member since the very beginning, we have the relevant partner on our side to establish our approach as an industry standard.”

 

Dr. Benedikt Brenken, Director of the R-Cycle Initiative.

 

Sarah Grede, Senior Manager Sustainability at GS1 Germany, adds: “The standardized collection of recycling-relevant data attributes in the plastics production process offers enormous potential for the circular economy. That’s why we’re delighted to now be working with market participants and our GS1 experts to drive forward the optimization of value networks.”

 

Sarah Grede, Senior Manager Sustainability at GS1 Germany.
Sarah Grede, Senior Manager Sustainability at GS1 Germany.

 

One particularly interesting use case is in the area of waste management. When considering today’s waste streams, recyclable plastic packaging cannot be accurately sorted for high-quality recycling. If production machines automatically record recycling-relevant properties in a digital product passport, route it through the value chain and make it retrievable via a corresponding marking (e.g. digital watermarks) on the packaging, waste sorting plants can identify recyclable packaging and form recycling-friendly, single-sort fractions. This is the basis for obtaining high-quality recyclates to build a functioning circular economy.

In addition to improving product sustainability, manufacturers also increase their process efficiency and product quality by using the digital product passport. Precise information about the production and product properties of the source material, provide added value for customers in the downstream process.

 

 

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R-Cycle Initiative Becomes Open Community

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R-Cycle Initiative Becomes Open Community

R-Cycle Initiative Becomes Open Community

The R-Cycle Initiative, founded in 2020 by various technology companies and organizations across the plastic packaging lifecycle, is transitioning into an open community. This is the next important step for R-Cycle to establish its already functional digital traceability standard for plastic packaging in the market and drive an effective circular economy.

 

Dr. Benedikt Brenken, Director of the R-Cycle Initiative, explains: “By establishing an open community, we are making R-Cycle accessible to all companies, institutions and stakeholders that have a legitimate interest in the field of circular economy for plastic packaging and want to use, support or further develop R-Cycle themselves. Members gain access to a broad network of application-experienced partners and know-how in digitalization and sustainability. The goal is to realize their own applications, reap benefits and jointly establish R-Cycle worldwide.” Interested companies can obtain all membership information at here.

 

 

 

The companies in the cross-industry initiative laid the base for R-Cycle as founding members and have now joined the R-Cycle community. Technologically, R-Cycle is based on GS1 standards. GS1 is the leading global network for cross-industry process development and is also a founding member of R-Cycle. By providing a digital product passport, all recycling-relevant data is automatically recorded during the production of plastic packaging and made accessible via appropriate markings (e.g. digital watermarks or QR codes) on intermediate and end products. This enables waste sorting plants to accurately identify packaging and form recycling-friendly as well as single-variety fractions. This is the basis for obtaining high-quality recyclates to build a functioning circular economy.

R-Cycle is already operational and has been successfully tested in a number of pilot projects. Under the umbrella of GS1 Germany, a project has also been launched based on R-Cycle to develop the GS1 guideline PDS4CircularPlastics (Processes and data sharing approach for enabling circular plastics value networks). This again underlines the approach of the companies involved to establish R-Cycle as an industry standard.

 

 

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Start for the R-Cycle Community

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Start for the R-Cycle Community

Start for the R-Cycle Community

R-Cycle starts into a new phase as an open community. The first official general assembly was held on May 3, 2022 at R-Cycle member Multivac’s corporate site in Wolfertschwenden, Germany.

R-Cycle was founded in 2020 as an initiative of various technology companies and organizations along the entire life cycle of plastic packaging with the aim of establishing a digital traceability standard in the market for plastic packaging via digital product passports. This prepares the technical basis for more precise waste sorting and higher-quality recycling to drive an effective circular economy.

 

Dr. Benedikt Brenken, Director of the R-Cycle Community, explains, “Now that the development and testing of the technical infrastructure has been successfully completed in spring 2022, the rollout is taking place. From now on, R-Cycle is accessible as an open community for all companies, institutions and stakeholders that have a legitimate interest in the field of circular economy for plastic packaging and want to use, support or further develop R-Cycle themselves.”

 

 

Right at the start of the community, the circle has grown by 6 more companies to now a total of 19 members. The community offers access to a broad network of application-experienced partners and know-how in digitalization and sustainability. In addition to the general assembly at management level, the exchange takes place via specialized working groups that deal specifically with the various application areas of digital product passports. The R-Cycle platform can be networked with all common software systems as well as a wide variety of production equipment – from film or injection molding machines to processing, printing and filling machines to waste sorting and recycling systems. The traceability technology behind R-Cycle is based on GS1 standards – the leading global network for cross-industry process development and a founding member of R-Cycle.

By providing a digital product passport, all recycling-relevant data is automatically recorded during the production of plastic packaging and made retrievable via suitable markings (e.g. digital watermarks or QR codes) on intermediate and end products. This allows waste sorting facilities to accurately identify packaging and form recycling-friendly and single-variety fractions. In addition to improving product sustainability, manufacturers and processors of plastic packaging also benefit in terms of process efficiency, quality and compliance with legal information requirements.

 

Guido Spix, Managing Director Multivac, said: “We had a lively discussion regarding R-Cycle’s strategic goals within several presentations and a high-profile roundtable. Digital product passports offer enormous potential for an efficient circular economy of plastic packaging. Among other things, they enable data-based and thus more precise waste sorting in order to obtain higher-quality recyclates, as well as data-optimized production processes. We are looking forward to the next steps!”

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Brenken adds, “R-Cycle is not a concept, but a proven solution that we are now bringing to market together from our strong community. The first general assembly has already shown how much innovative spirit our members bring to the table to leverage the potential of digital product passports for plastic products as part of an efficient circular economy.”

 

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ENGEL, One of the World’s Leading Manufacturers of Plastic Injection Moulding Machines, Joins R-Cycle

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ENGEL, One of the World’s Leading Manufacturers of Plastic Injection Moulding Machines, Joins R-Cycle

ENGEL, One of the World’s Leading Manufacturers of Plastic Injection Moulding Machines, Joins R-Cycle

ENGEL has joined the cross-company R-Cycle community to drive the establishment of digital product passports for plastic products. R-Cycle thus creates the basis for a highly developed recycling process by automatically recording recycling-relevant information as early as the product manufacturing stage.

ENGEL is actively committed to building a circular economy for plastics. The aim is to be able to use recyclates in a significantly wider range of applications with innovative processing methods and digital solutions.

 

“The prerequisite for this is information transparency along the entire value chain, the cycle of information, so to speak,” emphasizes Dr. Gerhard Dimmler, CTO of the ENGEL Group. “Only if you know which material is processed, the desired product properties can be guaranteed. The digital product passport makes it possible to trace the life cycle of materials and plastic components.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The link to the digital product passport is made via corresponding markings on the products, for example digital watermarks or QR codes. Using the additional information, waste sorting facilities can identify recyclable plastic products more precisely and provide single-variety fractions for recycling. This is the key to being able to recycle plastics of equal or even higher value.

 

Packaging Europe Awarded R-Cycle in the Category Driving the Circular Economy

“With ENGEL, we are gaining another global player and experienced partner that consistently designs its products technologically for sustainable business,” adds Dr. Benedikt Brenken, Director of the R-Cycle Community. “Digital product passports offer enormous potential for the circular economy – we now need to implement this together.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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IN.Pack Machinery Joins R-Cycle – Setting New Standards for Plastic Recycling Through Digital Product Passports

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IN.Pack Machinery Joins R-Cycle – Setting New Standards for Plastic Recycling Through Digital Product Passports

IN.Pack Machinery Joins R-Cycle – Setting New Standards for Plastic Recycling Through Digital Product Passports

IN.Pack Machinerey, a leading producer of flexible Packaging machinery with a sustainability proposition, joins the R-Cycle community to help the Packaging industry in its journey towards a circular economy.

R-Cycle has the goal of setting an open standard for the tracing of recyclable Packaging across the value chain. The technology allows for the recording of all recycling-relevant information from the production process in a standardized digital product passport, which is applied to the Packaging, and is made available to the recycling industry through a data platform. The data from the product passport are retrievable via an appropriate marker (e.g. digital watermarks) on the Packaging. This allows waste sorting systems to correctly identify fully recyclable Packaging and deliver high-quality recycled materials, which can go back to the market, contributing to the climate neutrality goals described in the EU’s European Green Deal.

 

Pietro Santoro, CEO of IN.Pack Machinery, said: “We are excited to join R-Cycle, an initiative which is backed by leading players in the industry and has the potential to make a real impact on recycling technologies, which are key to a circular economy. IN.Pack companies have been pioneers in developing machines offering the best processing capabilities on bio-compostable and recycled polymers, and we recently expanded to cellulose and paper. We always believed sustainability is a complex endeavour which requires technically-viable solutions involving different materials and different technologies, and R-Cycle goes fully in this direction”.

 

 

 

 

IN.Pack Machinery, comprising of Amutec, Mobert and SCAE, is a leading designer and manufacturer of a full range of machinery for flexible Packaging (Bag on Roll, Loose Bag, Pouch, Wicket and Wire Welding machineries). IN.Pack is committed to allowing its customers across different end-markets and applications to achieve their ambitions in sustainability through a diverse suite of different solutions and materials, and has installed over 5,000 machines worldwide.

 

Packaging Europe Awarded R-Cycle in the Category Driving the Circular Economy

Dr. Benedikt Brenken, Director R-Cycle, said: “We are pleased to have gained another strong partner for R-Cycle. IN.Pack masters the entire product range in the field of flexible Packaging equipment and can support us with valuable know-how to drive the circular economy in these important applications.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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OLBRICH GmbH Becomes a New R-cycle Member

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OLBRICH GmbH Becomes a New R-cycle Member

OLBRICH GmbH Becomes a New R-cycle Member

 

OLBRICH GmbH with its Polytype Converting brand is active all over the world and in various fields. With approximately 450 employees worldwide, the specialists have been developing flexible production lines for more than 70 years, enabling customers to realize high-quality products. Exemplary products are flexible packaging, barrier coatings on paper, adhesive tapes and labels, film/foils for batteries and fuel cells, but also wallcoverings and floor coverings.

Since 2020, companies along the entire value chain of plastic packaging have formed under the R-Cycle flag. As a further partner in the R-Cycle community, OLBRICH will now participate in the establishment of a digital traceability standard for plastic packaging on the market in order to drive an effective circular economy.

Product Manager Bernd Theling and Ronald Haunholter, Business Development Manager, have focused on this topic at OLBRICH and initiated the cooperation with R-Cycle.

 

 

Bernd Theling explains: “For years we have been developing efficient and at the same time sustainable line concepts together with our customers. The R-Cycle Community now enables us to network production units digitally and across companies in order to identify holistic approaches to sustainability. We can only realize the traceability of plastic packaging by working together as a team.”

 

Packaging Europe Awarded R-Cycle in the Category Driving the Circular Economy

Dr. Benedikt Brenken, Director R-Cycle, explains: “With OLBRICH we gain another expert for sustainable packaging technologies who perfectly complements our community. Together we will transfer the potential of digital product passports for a functioning circular economy into concrete applications that ultimately represent a tangible added value for the customer.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Sikoplast Joins the R-Cycle Community

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Sikoplast Joins the R-Cycle Community

Sikoplast Joins the R-Cycle Community

 

Sikoplast is a specialist in the development, production and sale of plants and systems for recycling plastics. The continuously growing product range includes off-line re-pelletizing systems, in-line recycling plants and appendant equipment.

 

 

Stylianos W. Nikolaou, Managing Director at Sikoplast, explains: “We are proud to be part of R-Cycle and contribute to a sustainable circular solution. For us it is not just a trend, because Sikoplast has been dealing with the topic of sustainability and recycling solutions for thermoplastics since the company was founded in 1956.”

The ignition spark for Sikoplast was the oil crisis, which temporarily caused the raw material price of plastics to rise sharply at the beginning of the 1970s. Thus, a new market for recycling systems also emerged. Heinrich Koch, the founder of Sikoplast saw this as the future for his company. Today Sikoplast Recycling Technology is a highly specialized provider in this industry.

Dr. Benedikt Brenken, Director R-Cycle, explains: “With Sikoplast, we are gaining another important partner that provides technologies for closing the recycling cycles. Recycling machines transform used plastic into new raw material. It is precisely for this process that we want to prepare the best possible basis with the data from the Digital Product Passport.”

 

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ILLIG Joins R-Cycle Community

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ILLIG Joins R-Cycle Community

ILLIG Joins R-Cycle Community

 

ILLIG Maschinenbau has joined the R-Cycle Community. Thus, the specialist for packaging solutions relies on the digital product passport for sustainable plastics, improving the sustainability of products, the quality and the manufacturing process. As another partner of the R-Cycle Community, ILLIG is participating in the establishment of a digital traceability standard for plastic packaging to drive an effective circular economy.

Resource-efficient solutions from ILLIG

ILLIG is active around the globe with its own subsidiaries and trading partners. The family-owned company develops and builds innovative, economical and high-performance systems for its customers to realize resource-efficient and sustainable packaging solutions made of cardboard, paper and plastic.

The machine and tool manufacturer consistently focuses on resource-saving and economically producible products that are well suited for use in the recyclable materials cycle. With its “Circular Thinking!” approach, ILLIG bundles many years of technical know-how in the development of sustainable systems. The Heilbronn-based company thus clearly follows the sustainability principles of reduce, reuse, separate, recycle and renew.

With its comprehensive packaging development “Pactivity 360”, ILLIG also supports packaging manufacturers in designing recyclable applications. Packaging produced on ILLIG production systems thus reduces the use of raw materials and supports recycling.

By joining R-Cycle, ILLIG is now able to advise customers on the implementation of digital product passports for recyclable applications.

 

 

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Silver Plastics Joins the R-Cycle Community

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Silver Plastics Joins the R-Cycle Community

Silver Plastics Joins the R-Cycle Community

 

Silver plastics GmbH & Co. KG – leading manufacturer of plastic packaging in the food sector – has joined the R-Cycle Community. Since 1967, silver plastics has been producing up to one billion certified packages per year on a total of 56,000 square meters of factory space in Troisdorf, North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany).

 

As a manufacturer of plastic packaging and with a view to social responsibility for future generations, silver plastics is consistently gearing its strategy towards a closed-loop recycling economy. From recycling-friendly packaging design and the use of recycled materials to innovative closed-loop solutions, the company is meeting this challenge in all areas. Here, silver plastics is focusing in particular on Pet as the material of the future in the food sector, as it already enables a closed loop today. In combination with R-Cycle’s digital product passport, fully recyclable Pet products can also be identified more precisely in the post-consumer waste stream and recycled to a higher quality.

 

 

Sebastian Kremer, CSO at silver plastics, explains: “Only when the entire value chain works together on a solution and everyone takes a step in the same direction will we arrive at sustainable solutions. Here, R-Cycle offers the best approach from our point of view to make all relevant information digitally available for a closed loop.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Packaging Europe Awarded R-Cycle in the Category Driving the Circular Economy

Dr. Benedikt Brenken, Director R-Cycle, adds: “silver plastics is an absolute innovation leader when it comes to sustainable food packaging, with a clear commitment to circular products. In this respect, silver plastics and R-Cycle complement each other ideally to fully exploit the potential of sustainable packaging solutions.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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