Newcycling® – the innovativerecycling technology from APK AG
Around 390 million tons of plastic are produced annually, with much ending up as short-lived products and then discarded. Only a minor fraction is currently recycled, even though a substantial portion of this waste can be reclaimed through effective, innovative recycling technologies.
APK AG’s Newcycling® technology represents a groundbreaking approach to plastic recycling. Unlike conventional methods, Newcycling® utilizes a solvent-based separation and purification process alongside mechanical pre-treatment, ensuring the preservation of polymer integrity while yielding high-quality recyclates.
Founded in 2008, APK AG has pioneered recycling solutions from its base in Merseburg, Germany. Scaling up its Newcycling® process to an industrial level, the company collaborates with partners to establish recycling plants and licenses its technology to enhance accessibility across the plastics value chain and key market sectors.
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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? Our Mersalen® facilitates to close the loop back into packaging.
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
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Dr. Steve Döring appointed CEO at APK AG
Merseburg, January 16, 2024. As APK AG’s newly appointed CEO, Dr. Steve Döring joins Chief Technology Officer Dr. Robert Marx and Chief Financial Officer Jürgen Schiffer in rounding out the company’s Management Board. ‘Joining APK AG in the midst of its leap to becoming a …
All systems go as APK prepares for the construction of their new large-scale Newcycling® plant.
Strong investors, successful certifications, agreement for product supply Merseburg, December 14, 2023. APK AG will bring in the new year with its corporate strategy stronger than ever. The company from Merseburg/Leuna, Germany, devoted itself in 2023 to putting in place key elements of its successful …
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 …
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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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