International Plastics News for Asia

The 2024 ASEAN Manufacturing Summit: Creating a Circular Economy for Plastics in Jakarta featured interesting presentations from industry experts on sustainable plasticpackaging production and other solutions to reduce the environmental impact of plastics. We featured a leading expert in this area, Pak Henky Wibawa, who offered his insights on emerging trends that packaging producers should take into consideration when designing their operations to achieve a circular economy.

This issue carries a preview of Fakuma 2024, a leading exhibition on industrial plastics processing. This year, the exhibition will present a comprehensive overviewof plastics technologies aimed at digitalisation and sustainability, two all-important topics in the plastics industry today.

Post-consumer recycled (PCR)resins are finding theirway in a growing range of applications. Southeast Asiais a fast-rising centre for recycling and production of PCR resins,We were able to visit the new Pan EraGroup's plant in Cikande, Indonesia where we had thechance to see the company's production of recycled resins from post-consumer plastic waste and learned how the company has been responding to the needs of various industries.