Partners

With eleven plants throughout Europe, the Morssinkhof Group is one of the leading partners in the field of recycling plastics. Morssinkhof offers total solutions plastic scrap and waste flows, using divers mechanical recycling methods to render the utilization of high quality recycled raw materials a possibility.

“The optimum utilisation of raw materials is an increasingly large challenge being faced by today’s society” says Mark Ruesink, Innovation Director rPET of the Morssinkhof Group. “We are proud to announce that additional to our already successful Mopet® process we now take our next step with CuRe. This will allow us to reduce the polyester waste mountain even more than today possible.”

Cumapol provides recycling solutions for post-consumer and post-industrial polyesters. Our services contain: Regranulation, Compounding, Crystallization and Solid State Polymerization. We can process both virgin as well as recycled polyesters.

Marco Brons, Technical Director of Cumapol: “We are very excited to have other companies invest in our expertise and co-develop the future of polyester upcycling. Since the plant will be installed in the Cumapol premises in Emmen, we will increase our capacity by another 25 kilotons. With that we also want to prove to the world the possibilities of large scale production of our CuRe Technology.”

DuFor Resins develops innovative polyester raw materials which are made to be recycled and focuses on the complete polyester life cycle.​ Using over 40 years of experience in polymer development and processing in a variety of markets and applications, DuFor is able to translate the customers’ requirements into the recipe of the polymer needed. Typical applications for our specialty polyesters are both rigid and flexible packaging, strapping, monofilaments, fibers and other high demanding technical applications. 

Niaga has the mission to redesign everyday products from the ground up. The aim is to make products fully recyclable in an easy and affordable way, without compromising on quality or price.

“This partnership fits our strategy to take responsibility beyond the product design for recyclability.” According to Kelly Hall, Managing Director of Niaga. “Niaga is dedicated to contributing in key technology developments that further enhances the opportunities of local polyester recycling on a global scale.”

NHL Stenden University of Applied Science: Technological applications for sustainable plastics are the way of the future, and the NHL Stenden Department of Sustainable Plastics is committed to the cause and to sharing its knowledge and expertise with businesses and students. Its ultimate objective is to bring innovation to education and create spin-offs in the business sector. In addition, we are also looking to become a research hub for sustainable plastics for businesses in the north of the Netherlands and beyond.

Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP), the world’s largest independent Coca-Cola bottler, has taken an important step on its journey towards 100% rPET for its plastic bottles by funding CuRe Technology – a recycling start-up which seeks to provide a new lease of life for difficult to recycle plastic polyester waste.

Joe Franses, Vice President, Sustainability at Coca-Cola Europacific Partners:  “CuRe Technology is an exciting technology start-up with transformational potential developed by an experienced consortium, making it an ideal investment for CCEP Ventures. Our investment in CuRe Technology underlines our commitment to supporting innovations that have the potential to drive growth in our business and our sustainable packaging goals. It also offers us the potential to access vital rPET volume that will help to accelerate delivery  of our 100% rPET ambition for our PET bottles.

MVO Nederland

The Plastics Pact NL

Supplier support for CHALLENGE #1 RPET – What happens with our used polyester garments and polyester industrial waste? Can we extend the life of such materials and transform them into something new? European sportswear and outdoor brands and retail leaders accelerate a transition to circular models, reduce waste and lower the industries environmental footprint.

Textile Exchange mission is to inspire and equip people to accelerate the adoption of preferred materials through clear and actionable guidance. They convene the textile industry to collectively achieve climate reduction goals and holistic positive impacts across fiber and raw material production.

Fashion for Good – the Full Circle Textiles Project – Polyester, with the ambition to validate and scale promising technologies in polyester chemical recycling and to encourage financing and offtake commitments in the fashion industry.