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UPM Specialty Papers and adhesive tape specialist Lohmann have partnered to promote recycling of paper liners in the tape industry. Until now, liner recycling in the tape industry has proven to be very difficult. As part of its own sustainability strategy of driving forward sustainable adhesive technologies, Lohmann saw the opportunity to spearhead design for recycling in the tapes industry. The collaboration builds on UPM LinerLoop, which is the pioneering closed-loop paper liner recycling solution launched in 2018. For adhesive tape liners, the greatest technical barrier to high-yield recycling is that the industry has traditionally used siliconized release liners with a darker brown shade. As the typical shade of glassine is white or some other light shade, recycling darker coloured glassine grades in the same stream would contaminate the recycled pulp. Darker shades are comparatively small in volume so recycling them separately is not economically viable. From a functional perspective, the performance of lighter shades has to match the performance of darker shades. High-performing white liners were already available from UPM and even other suppliers, which is why Lohmann introduced its biobased and solvent-free tapes, DuploCOLL ECO, with the new white paper liner to facilitate recycling with the highest possible value. Solutions such as UPM LinerLoop and other established paper and paperboard recycling streams offer a drop-in solution for meeting Lohmann's target of improving the recyclability of liner waste. Lohmann is pursuing various measures to reduce waste, increase the reusability of packaging as well as the number of recyclable products and product components. The aim here is to minimize the consumption of primary resources while keeping the fibres in the recycling loop for as long as possible. Original source: UPM-Kymmene, website: http://www.upm.com/, Copyright UPM-Kymmene 2023., joint venture; waste utilization and recycling; adhesive tape; biomaterials; DuploCOLL ECO; fibres; paper products; pulp; waste; Lohmann; UPM Specialty [...]

Helsinki, Finland: UPM-Kymmene Oyj has issued the following press release: UPM Raflatac has announced Raben and Reganta as the winners of the RafCycle Award at Labelexpo Europe 2023 in Brussels. [...]

UPM Raflatac and Orthex have joined forces to offer household products and their labelling made of recycled plastic saved from ending up as marine litter. The products include buckets, wash bowls and water scoops. To achieve this, both companies are part of value chains that collect the plastic waste and transform it back into raw materials. The collected material is sorted, cleaned, shredded, and extruded into raw material pellets, from which the Orthex's bucket, bowl and scoop products are made. The raw material has up to 94% lower carbon emissions compared to virgin plastic. UPM Raflatac collaborates closely with multiple partners in the value chain to produce the Ocean Action labels. The Ocean Action label materials are the world's first label materials made from ocean bound plastic waste. The ocean bound plastic waste is abandoned plastic waste recovered from areas up to 50 km inland from shores, defined by OBPCert as 'at risk of ending up in the ocean'. At the first stage in the value chain HHI, a Malaysian-based plastic recycling company collects and sorts the ocean bound plastic waste with its partners. HHI then uses chemical recycling to convert the waste into pyrolysis oil. The pyrolysis oil is used by SABIC to create high-quality PP plastic granulates. The plastic granulates are used in the process in which the film manufacturer Taghleef Industries produces the label film that is used to produce the final label material for product labelling. Original source: UPM-Kymmene, website: http://www.upm.com/, Copyright UPM-Kymmene 2022., PP; joint venture; waste emissions and pollution; waste utilization and recycling; bio-oils; carbon dioxide; plastic waste; polypropylene; recycled plastics; HHI; Orthex; SABIC; Taghleef Industries; UPM [...]

Helsinki, Finland: UPM-Kymmene Oyj has issued the following press release: The unique circular economy value chain enables the recycling of label release liner waste, ensures the supply of PET raw [...]

Helsinki, Finland: UPM-Kymmene Oyj has issued the following press release: UPM is the first Finnish company, acting as a shipper and charterer, to discharge its ship-generated wastewater on land and [...]

Helsinki, Finland: UPM-Kymmene Oyj has issued the following press release: UPM Raflatac and WWF Poland have renewed their contract to build a smarter future beyond fossils together. During the new [...]

FINLAND: UPM-Kymmene Corporation has issued the following press release: Children's interest in recycling plays a big role in the degree to which families recycle their household waste, a new survey [...]

Helsinki: UPM Kymmene Corporation has issued the following press release: UPM Raflatac combines digitalization with circular economy. By adding RafMore smart label solution to its RafCycle(r) recycling process, UPM Raflatac [...]