(polyestertime) -- Nestle Waters North America Inc. has committed to incorporating 50 percent recycled content in previously virgin-material bottles for its Arrowhead brand of spring water, using food-grade PET from CarbonLite Industries LLC's new recycling plant in Riverside.
Nestle will buy one-third of the USD58 million plant's output. Separately, bottler PepsiCo Inc. has agreed to purchase 40 percent.
Nestle chose the Arrowhead brand for the recycled content because it is bottled primarily at the Nestle Waters bottling plant in Cabazon, CA, 40 miles east of Riverside, where the plant is located, Verespej writes.
PepsiCo did not specify how much recycled content might include in any of its beverage containers, according to Plastics News. Paul Boykas, vice president of global public policy for PepsiCo, noted, "We believe in investing in sustainable growth for people and for the planet."
MRC
Entrepose Projets/Rosco (France/Jordan) has been contracted for extension of the existing tank farm at the Tuba oil export terminal, namely construction of three oil storage tanks 66 thousand cubic meters each as well as state-of-the-art automation, remote control, power supply and fire fighting systems. The works are planned to be completed within 22 months.
These are turnkey contracts that cover engineering, construction and supply of required materials and equipment by the contractors.
(plasteurope) -- Even though the site's styrene and polystyrene plants are due to be closed by the end of the year. Ineos (Rolle / Switzerland) plans to continue operating the remaining lines in Marl / Germany.
A company spokeswoman told Plasteurope.com that the Rolle-based group would hold on to its 260,000 t/y cumene plant as well as its 110,000 t/y EPS line at the site. To date, the latter had been fed with styrene produced in Marl, a job which in future will probably be assumed by joint venture partner BASF (Ludwigshafen / Germany) or Shell Chemicals (London / UK).
It also remains unclear whether Ineos Styrenics four European EPS plants will be consolidated. Ineos did not comment on a relevant Plasteurope.com query. However, sources close to the company said the Marl EPS line will likely continue operations ⌠for now. Aside from Marl, Ineos also runs EPS production facilities in Breda / The Netherlands as well as Ribecourt and Wingles - both in France.
MRC