我们遵循我们的企业发展愿景，为具有高附加值的产品研发“智能”生产解决方案。 这尤其包括具备可持续性发展的解决方案。

为确保未来能够追踪塑料包装，从而提升可回收利用性，欧盟于 2020 年初发布了循环经济行动计划。考特斯机械制造有限公司也对此十分关注。因此我们紧随 R-Cycle 倡议，与塑料行业重要的合作伙伴一起积极用热情和雄心去实现这个目标。

R-Cycle 是针对在塑料包装的整个生命周期内对其进行追踪的全球适用的开放式标准，旨在基于现有技术通过完整记录所有与回收相关的包装属性来确保可回收利用性。

R-Cycle 为回收利用塑料创造了最重要的前提条件之一：通过标注实现包装可识别性。通过云端数据库可以追踪整个价值链，直至所用的原材料。

该项目于 2020 年 6 月正式启动。目前，塑料工程公司 Reifenhäuser、Arburg、Brückner Maschinenbau 和亚琛工业大学的塑料加工研究所 (IKV) 都参与了该项目。对此，我们获得了 GS1 Germany 的支持，GS1 Germany 是一家中立的能力和服务中心，可优化价值链中的跨公司业务流程。

了解更多：www.r-cycle.org

Together with plastic raw material supplier Braskem, plastic packaging manufacturer KautexTextron and Netherlands-based recycling specialist company Morssinkhoff Plastics, Kautex Maschinenbau has launched the R-Cycle pilot project “Smart sustainable packaging in Blow Molding”. This combination of project partners maps the entire value chain from plastics production to processing and recycling. The project objective is to develop a recycling-friendly and traceable bottle made of sustainable materials.

The target product has been defined for a first step as a 1-liter bottle made from two different HDPE materials: One bottle is made from Braskem’s I’m greenTM biobased PE, produced from sugar cane (white bottle), The second bottle is made from Braskem’s I’m greenTM Recycled PE, a material made from recycled plastic waste (grey bottle).

Both bottles are produced with extrusion blow molding processes, using a machine from Kautex Maschinenbau that offers ideal conditions for processing new types of plastics and is integrated with coding and marking technology via digital interfaces.

Both bottles, produced with both sustainable materials, are 100% recyclable. By this, they can be returned to the recycling loop and granulated into a high-quality recycled material.

The tracing technology behind the R-Cycle pilot project is based on GS1 standards. In the first step, we are using QR codes as marking technology for the bottle. In addition, other possible marking technologies will also be tested during the project.