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Companies Koninklijke Van Wijhe Verf, Dijkstra Plastics, Veolia Polymers and Verstraete IML have joined forces and are introducing a paint pail made from 100% Post-Consumer Recycled Materials (PCR) and finished with IML labels. On their part, this development is a crucial step towards a fully circular system. ‘It's a disgrace to use “virgin material” for paint pails,’ says Gerrit Klein Nagelvoort, Business Development Manager at Veolia Polymers. ‘With this initiative, we demonstrate that making these pails out of Post-Consumer Recycled Materials is definitely doable.

Frylite is the name for quality cooking oils in Ireland. For more than thirty years, they have been supplying customers across the country with a range of different oils and collecting used waste oil. All the manual handling and transport takes a toll on the labels on their containers. How do they make sure their brand labelling will truly represent the quality they deliver?

Pioneer project HolyGrail aims to speed up the transition to a circular economy for plastics by focusing on an important pillar to increase recycling rates, namely improved sorting of postconsumer packaging with the help of digital watermarks. Next to designing plastics packaging for circularity and ensuring they are collected after use, high quality sorting is a crucial component to increase current poor recycling rates.

We are sad to announce the passing of Geert Verstraete, the founder of Drukkerij Verstraete (now Verstraete IML).
Geert suffered from health issues for the last couple of years. He passed away on Monday August 19^th at the age of 81, lovingly surrounded by his closest family.

His perseverance, commitment and passion for his work, made him dedicated to Verstraete IML and the labeling business until a very late age. He paved the foundations for what Verstraete IML is today.