Newcycling® – the innovativerecycling technology from APK AG
Plastic waste is one of the biggest problems of our time. Globally, almost 80 million tons of plastic packaging waste is generated every year. Currently, only about ten percent of the resources are recovered through recycling. The rest is incinerated, landfilled or released leaks into the environment in an uncontrolled manner. The need for a real circular economy is becoming increasingly. Today’s conventional recycling processes are at their limits. Innovations in recycling are essential for a sustainable future. With the Newcycling® process, APK AG is contributing to meeting sustainability targets and recycling quotas.
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Newcycling® by APK
Using a special solvent process, individual types of polymers in mixed plastic waste streams are separated. The result is pure, clean plastic granulates that are virgin like.
Our Products
With high-quality granulates back into flexible packaging or technical injection molding parts? No problem, with our newcycled Mersamid® and Mersalen®.
Our Company
We are an innovative industrial company, a leader in the field of innovative recycling technologies for the production of plastics that are virgin like from mixed plastic waste streams.
"Newcycling allows to recover from packaging waste again pure polyolefins for re-use in packaging."
Florian Riedl Director Business Development APK AG
The solution to the problem of plastic waste: collection, sortingand recycling to achieve in the circular economy
Learn in our video why innovative recycling processes will become more and more important in the future and how we are contributing to close the loop with Newcycling®.
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State Secretary Pötzsch visits APK in Merseburg
Merseburg, August 23, 2023. Stefanie Pötzsch, State Secretary in the Ministry of Economics, Tourism, Agriculture and Forestry of Saxony-Anhalt, visited the APK site in Merseburg on August 23. She was accompanied, among others, by Sven Czekalla, Member of the Saxony-Anhalt State Parliament, who had already …
Jürgen Schiffer is the new CFO of APK AG
Merseburg, July 27, 2023, Jürgen Schiffer has been appointed as the new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) by the APK AG Supervisory Board. The proven expert for finance, value-added processes as well as transformation and change management comes from Meyer Burger Technology AG, which specializes in …
Minister of Economics Sven Schulze and international journalists at APK in Merseburg
Merseburg, June 09, 2023. Saxony-Anhalt’s Minister of Economics, Tourism, Agriculture and Forestry, Sven Schulze, was again a guest at APK in Merseburg on June 9, 2023. He had already visited the plant at the end of last year and familiarized himself with APK’s unique Newcycling® …
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The expansion of our production plant in Merseburg to include Newcycling® for the pure processing of multi-layer packaging film waste from production sources with an investment volume of EUR 18.1 million is funded to the amount of EUR 3.6 million by a grant from Investitionsbank Sachsen-Anhalt as part of the joint scheme for "Improving Regional Economic Structures (GRW)" and should be completed by the end of 2018.
The expansion of APK’s solvent-based recycling is to include further waste streams and process assessment/optimization with respect to food standard for Newcycling® products. With the help of the funding, an important contribution is to be made to the development of the circular economy of plastics. The measure is a grant from the "Innovation Assistance" program for the project period from October 2018 to September 2020.
APK stands for regranulates of the same quality as new products. Our unique Newcycling® process allows the production of clean, pure granulates.
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