On 2th July 2021, saperatec CTO, Dr. Sebastian Kernbaum, was invited by The Royal Society to speak about disruptive technologies in the recycling sector. Mr. Kernbaum presented the saperatec technology with its recent material qualities as one approach to extend the state-of-the-art mechanical recycling to “advanced mechanical recycling”. These cutting-edge processes enable access to materials in composite systems with unchanged properties. The talk was finished with a classification of today´s plastic recycling technologies and saperatec´s next steps towards its first industrial plant.

Please find further information about the event on: https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2021/07/tof-sustainable-packaging/

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Aluminium is one of the best performing barrier materials in polymer flexible packaging with many key advantages. It facilitates lightweight packaging alternatives over more resource-intense rigid packaging options and achieves superior product protection and shelf live, while simplifying supply chain requirements. A key challenge today is that even in advanced recycling systems today, only the aluminium content of this high-performance packaging material is recirculated. The plastics share – often more than 70% - is at best used for energy. Better recycling options that recover the plastics from this packaging waste are needed.

Recently the Global Aluminium Foil Roller Initiative (GLAFRI) organized a webinar regarding “Alufoil Sorting and Recycling” for representatives of the aluminium foil industry. At the webinar Saperatec presented its Advanced Mechanical Recycling solution for polymer-alufoil composite packaging waste. Based on the webinar an overview on modern technologies including the Saperatec Advanced Mechanical Recycling technology was published by International ALUMINIUM Journal.

The article can be downloaded here (link: https://www.global-alufoil.org/files/GLAFRI/downloads/2021/Sorting_Recycling_alufoil-ALUMINIUM_06-2021.pdf)

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Saperatec has successfully demonstrated the separation of aluminium-free polymer-polymer multilayer films. In collaboration with Mitsubishi Chemical Performance Polymers (MCPP), a separation process was designed by saperatec to delaminate polyethylene-polyamide multilayer-structures containing MCPP’s unique high gas barrier resin Nichigo G-Polymer^TM. This offers a way to recover valuable secondary raw materials.

The promising results were presented by Mitsubishi Chemical Performance Polymers (MCPP) at UBE Change & Challenge Conference from 22^nd to 24^th February 2021. More than 900 experts were brought together to discuss about sustainable Performance Packing and to present their innovations on the way to a circular economy.

Please find further information about the event and about MCPP on: https://change-challenge.org/ and https://www.mcpp-global.com/de/europa/

In January 2021, saperatec becomes CEFLEX member to support the recycling initiative with saperatec´s delamination technology for metal barrier flexible packaging. The aim is to develop fully circular value chains for flexible packaging.

CEFLEX is the collaborative initiative of European companies representing the entire value chain of flexible packaging. CEFLEX and saperatec have been working together since a long time to demonstrate large scale feasibility of the saperatec technology and will do so also in the future. The CEFLEX consortium gave saperatec the possibility to showcase the unique technology to a broad spectrum of the industry. Because of the fruitful exchange, saperatec decided to become a member of the CEFLEX initiative to give valuable input to solve the current recycling challenges, especially in the fields of technological development and product design.

Please find more information about CEFLEX and saperatec on: https://www.saperatec.de/en/ https://ceflex.eu/

The technology development of saperatec has received funding from the European Union´s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 830508 (“FlexPack2Circle”).

From 18th to 19th November 2020 saperatec has presented its unique delamination technology on the virtual Sustainability Forum 2020 organized by Henkel. On the two-day event saperatec shared its technology with many visitors at a virtual booth

The Henkel Packaging Adhesives Sustainability Forum 2020 brought together 2000 experts along the value chain of the global packaging industry with technology innovations & sustainable initiatives. The 2-day agenda with expert speakers was providing valuable business insights on the current trends, challenges and opportunities of the packaging industry.
On this occasion, saperatec used the possibility to show deeper insights into the delamination technology for multilayer packaging materials including the roadmap to industrialization and its view on the current market development.

Please find further information about the event on: https://www.henkel-adhesives.com/de/en/insights/all-insights/events-webinars/sustainability-forum.html

The technology development of saperatec has received funding from the European Union´s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 830508 (“FlexPack2Circle”).