About Indorama Ventures Indorama Ventures Public Company (IVL) is a global sustainable chemical manufacturing company, headquartered in Thailand with 26,000+ employees in 34 countries, 136 operational sites and a consolidated revenue of $14.6B (2021). The Rotterdam location produces terephthalic acid (PTA) and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and serves many customers active in the packaging industry. Indorama
Ioniqa (www.ioniqa.com) is a cleantech company specialized in depolymerization of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) polyester waste into virgin-like monomers. PET is a plastic that is widely used for water and soft drink bottles, food packages, clothing and carpets. With the production of pure PET-monomers, Ioniqa’s process can be repeated endlessly with no degradation in final PET
Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna (UNIBO) contributes to MERLIN with the effort of researchers belonging to the Department of Chemistry “G. Ciamician”, operating mainly in the Ravenna Campus in the Environmental Sciences Lab “R. Sartori” (https://site.unibo.it/greenchemistry/en). The team is composed of organic chemists and environmental scientists with strong expertise in Green and Sustainable chemistry,
Nowadays in Europe, only 42% of plastic packaging is recycled. From the total of plastic packaging currently produced, 17% is multi-layer material which is difficult to recycle. On one hand, in sorting plants, current technologies can only identify their superficial layer. On the other hand, once it has been sorted and classified, its recyclability relies
From 27 to 29 June 2022, MERLIN will participate in the Conference on Industrial Technologies IndTech2022, that will take place in Grenoble, France. The Conference on Industrial Technologies IndTech2022 aims at improving visibility of industrial technologies, identifying policy options and priorities, sharing of information and comparison of points of views, as well as a space
On 6th and 7th July 2022 it will be held, in person, the M12 General Meeting of MERLIN, at ITENE facilities, in Paterna, Valencia, Spain. The project partners will meet in person for the first time since the beginning of MERLIN. MERLIN's General Meeting will surely be the perfect occasion for the partners to present the results
MERLIN is now officially present, as Good Practice, on the European Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform. A joint initiative by the European Commission and the European Economic and Social Committee, the European Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform is a virtual open space whose aim is to promote the transition to a circular economy by facilitating policy dialogue
ROVIMATICA is currently working on the development of an AI based camera system that can distinguish between rigid and flexible plastic waste. The company is also working on robotic solution to collect the sorted materials from the conveyor line, at the recycling plant. Concerning the visual sorting of the materials, ROVIMATICA is developing an inline
On 27 April 2022, a delegation of the OECD visited ITENE´s facilities and MERLIN’s Project Coordinator, José Luis Diéguez, accurately explained the work performed under the MERLIN project. On a tour of ITENE’s laboratories and pilot plants, the OECD delegation - OCDE headed by Claire Charbit, Head of the Territorial Dialogues and Migration Unit at
MERLIN aims to create promising technologies and processes to improve the sorting, delamination and recycling of rigid and flexible multi-layer plastic packaging waste, from post-consumer and post-industrial sources, to obtain new high-performance packaging solutions for the food packaging industry and move towards a more circular economy. To this end, IRIS is working on two main
Duration: 36 Months
Start date: 01 June 2021
Call: H2020-SC5-2020-2
Topic: CE-SC5-24-2020 – IMPROVING THE SORTING, SEPARATION AND RECYCLING OF COMPOSITE AND MULTI-LAYER MATERIALS
Project coordinator: Mr. Cesar Aliaga (ITENE)
E-mail: info@merlinproject.eu
European Plastics Converters (EuPC) is the professional representative body of plastics converters in Europe, whose
On 14th and 15th June 2023, in the frame of the AMI Plastic Recycling World Expo
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101003883
Horizon 2020
European Union Funding
for Research & Innovation
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