ZK Hydraulic · factory log
Dispatches from the press floor, plus the EU deadlines that decide what feedstock costs next quarter. New material goes through a real mould before it shows up here.
Closing 21 Nov 2026
10days left
Regulation (EU) 2024/1157
Roughly 500,000 to 800,000 tonnes a year lose their cheapest exit. What stays in Europe either becomes pallet feedstock at a discount or turns into a disposal bill.
What the ban does to feedstock pricesClosing 22 Nov 2026
10days left
UK TRA safeguard · SG0094
192,963 tonnes of quota, and China shares a residual pool of 4,827 tonnes. The authority refused to exempt rPET. Provisional duty can run 200 days before any final ruling.
What the tariff does to pallet economicsIn force
Foreign material has to stay under 1.9% of dry weight before flake stops being waste. Above that line you are buying a disposal problem with a discount attached, and the washing cost lands on your line.
Read the EoW feedstock guideFrom 1 Jan 2030
Carbon-black pigment makes a pallet invisible to NIR sorters, so the cheapest colour to mould becomes the hardest to sell. The 35% recycled-content floor lands the same year.
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