Nestle, Pepsi buy recycled content from new facility

(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."

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(lukoil) -- LUKOIL Mid-East Ltd (West Qurna-2 project operator) has signed several major contracts for the West Qurna-2 field infrastructure development in Iraq based on the tender results.

The contract with Samsung Engineering (Korea) sets out 29 months to construct 5 well pads with 67 development wells, 5 gathering lines, a central processing facility (CPF), a water intake on the Euphrates River and a water pipeline to the CPF, a power supply system and a field camp. The contract also covers utilities for water treatment, distribution and disposal (including formation water), fuel gas extraction, instruments, drainage systems, commercial oil storage tanks and pumping facilities, administration buildings, workshops, warehouses, chemical analytical laboratory, fire station, central control room and other facilities.

ENKA Insaat (Turkey) has been contracted for construction of a gas turbine power plant. This facility includes three bi-fuel industrial gas turbines by General Electric (USA) 42 MW each, a gas treatment unit with gas compressors, a diesel fuel loading, storage and distribution system with two tanks 2,500 cubic meters each, a power distribution system with step-up, step-down and auxiliary transformers and switch gears, a diesel generator, a control room, utility and infrastructure installations. The works are planned to be completed within 27 months.

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.

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(blackseagrain) -- Swiss grain trader Ameropa is close to wrap up the takeover of Romanian fertilizers producer Azomures after Romania's antitrust body has cleared the deal.

Thus, Ameropa would also indirectly take control over Constanta-based port operator Chimpex Constanta - a valuable asset for any grain trader. Ameropa is to acquire 75.8% of Azomures after taking full control over its Turkish shareholders Eurofert Investments and Azomures Holdings for an unspecified sum. The terms of the deals were not disclosed.

The new majority owner will be obliged by the law to launch a buyout bid for the remaining shares in Romania's Azomures. The book value of the company's own funds stands at EUR 251mn, 16% above the latest market value of the company, the daily notes. Assuming the buyout bid takes place at this price implied by the company's book value, Ameropa would have to pay EUR 60mn, out of which EUR 26.7mn to Property Fund that holds 10.7% in Azomures.

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(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.
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(plasteurope) -- Thanks to an investment of GBP 4.5m (EUR 5.4m) in a state-of-the-art waste wash plant, PE film producer British Polythene Industries (BPI, Greenock, Scotland) has increased recycling capacity at its Rhymney / South Wales plant by 25,000 t/y. The new plant will be used, in particular, to recycle waste film from the agriculture and horticulture markets. It will enable bpi.recycled products to strengthen its range of 100% recycled PE products.

In addition to being one of the largest facilities of its kind in Europe, the wash plant will also be one of the most environmentally friendly. It employs features such as low energy, high output motors, energy-saving lighting and rainwater harvesting to replace water lost each day.

BPI is Europe's largest recycler of waste PE, now capable of reprocessing up to 95,000 t/y annually from a network of strategically located, approved sites across the UK. Waste farm plastic is a continuing problem for UK farmers and growers. An estimated 80,000 t is generated annually, much of it heavily contaminated with soil, sand and other contaminants.

As a result, a large percentage of it is exported to countries such as Vietnam and Malaysia, where it is often recycled using primitive, manual techniques. A high volume of the UK's waste farm polythene is also still being sent to landfill or illegally burnt.
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