Machinery & Equipment

The transaction adds to Coveris’s recyclable packaging range and supports its ‘No Waste’ sustainability vision, which aims to eliminate product waste, packaging waste and operational waste.

Linuo plans to develop the site into a regional manufacturing base and global supply centre, improving supply chain efficiency and expanding market reach across the Middle East, Africa and Europe.

The plant, planned at the Euroports Terminal on Antwerp’s right bank, will convert mixed plastic waste streams that cannot be processed through conventional mechanical or chemical recycling methods such as pyrolysis and gasification.

BlueAlp’s patented pyrolysis technology converts post-consumer mixed plastic waste into pyrolysis oil through a continuous process, achieving Technology Readiness Level 9 maturity.

The line incorporates UV and LED curing, rotary screen printing, die-cutting, automatic waste handling, online inspection, inkjet coding, corona treatment, anti-static systems and dual-side web cleaning within a single production workflow.

The new EcoTank printers deliver improved print speeds of up to 11 images per minute for black-and-white output and 6 images per minute for colour, with ink yields of up to 4,700 pages in black and 7,500 pages in colour.

Pakistan’s rapid consumer-led shift to solar power has significantly reduced the country’s vulnerability to energy shocks tied to Middle East tensions.

The combination of PCG’s sustainable manufacturing infrastructure, solar energy, closed-loop water recycling, closed-loop fibre recycling, with RHE’s patented garment protection solutions creates a vertically integrated platform for luxury fashion brands.

Valmet Packaging and Paper executive vice-president Petri Rasinmäki said that the demand for moulded-fibre packaging solutions was growing and Valmet saw strong opportunities to help customers capture this growth.

Mozambique continues to import significant volumes of polypropylene sacks, creating pressure on foreign currency outflows and introducing supply chain delays of up to eight weeks for shipments from Asia and the Middle East.