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UK leading brand manufacturers have joined together to collaborate on the Flexible Plastic Fund, an industry first for the UK, with the aim of making flexible plastic recycling viable for consumers and recyclers. The fund totals £1m and is being led by Ecosurety, a producer compliance scheme based in the UK, and supported alongside…
A Cornwall based entrepreneur has been awarded a five-figure finance packaging from HSBC after American Shopping Network approached them for an order of their sustainable drinks-carry trays.
The ALPLA Group is a world leader in plastic packaging and recycling solutions and has teamed up with Ecohelp SRL and United Polymer Trading AG in its efforts to build on its sustainability objectives. The company aim to establish a bottle-to-bottle cycle, especially in areas where collection and recycling plastic is lacking, such as eastern…
The Plastic Packaging Tax is due to come into force in the UK from 1 April 2022 and will see tax put on any packaging that contains under 30% of chemically or mechanically recycled plastic. The HMRC has released further guidance on what this will mean for businesses, including what is liable for the tax.
Plastic is a wonderous material that has enabled an unfathomable number of advancements in modern society. Yet it is no secret that, without proper management, the plastic waste created is a cause for considerable concern. There are always new advancements and processes being developed to help combat this, though they are usually similar in their…
Interplas 2021 again saw the winners of the BPF and Horners Awards announced. The award is considered to be the longest established design award for polymers worldwide and began when The Worshipful Company of Horners approached the British Plastics Federation in 1946. The award began as a way to celebrate craftsmen within the plastics industry,…
Here at Rayda we are proud of our reputation for high quality and offering great service. So how do we ensure we continue to provide this to our customers? Maintaining the quality of our products is one of the driving factors of our business, so the processes which we have put into place to achieve this are very important.
The development of the extrusion process has provided the plastic industry with a platform from which it has been able to develop a wealth of products and solutions. This is due to the process’s versatility, flexibility and range of aesthetics, among other things. But it is not just the plastic industry that has adopted extrusion into its manufacturing processes. Extrusion is also used extensively…
Aldi is on a mission. Since becoming carbon neutral in 2019, the supermarket has been pushing ever forward in the evolution of plastic packaging. Currently, the company are looking at all of their products to see how they can either remove the plastic or replace it with recyclable alternatives. They are on track to make all own-brand product packaging recyclable, reusable or compostable by 2022,…
With there being plenty of plastic materials and processes we offer here at Rayda, we’re going to discuss why we co-extrude plastics and the different scenarios this is good for, so you can find out how it could benefit you. What is Co-Extrusion? Two or more extrusion machines are used as part of the co-extrusion process through a single die head in order…