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Key Polymer Additive Manufacturing Highlights from Formnext 2019
Lots of new technology and advances from material and additive manufacturing system providers.
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Pacific Northwest Recycling Project Releases Results From Pilot Program
The project made use of a portable Secondary Material Recovery Facility (Secondary MRF) that operated for 60 days in Portland, receiving, sorting and measuring the possible recovery from two types of material streams from four MRFs located in Oregon and Washington.
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Molding Better Molders, One Class at a Time
Founded by and named for Rod Groleau, RJG grew out of an appreciation for two burgeoning needs of the plastics industry: training to help people better understand the molding process and equipment to let them actually see what’s happening inside that process.
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Henkel, BASF Collaborate on Chemical Recycling
Henkel is evaluating further opportunities for integrating chemically recycled plastic in its product packaging.
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Lower Prices for Five Volume Commodity Resins
Global demand slowdown and in some cases oversupply are ending the year with a buyers’ market.
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America's Big Beverage Companies Announce New Recycling Initiative
Through the Every Bottle Back initiative, beverage companies are stepping up efforts to reclaim as much plastic packaging as possible to ensure it is remade into new PET bottles.
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Eastman to Use Reclaimed Polyester Carpet as Feedstock for Chemical Recycling
The reclaimed polyester carpet will be collected and processed by Circular Polymers, transported by railcar, and then upcycled by Eastman to produce new materials with certified recycled content.
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GM Exits PLASTICS, Greenpeace Lauds Move
The environmental organization, teaming with others, seems to have adopted a new tact of pressuring OEMs and brandowners to end their association with the Plastics Industry Association, but to what end?
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Follow These Steps to Purge Accumulator-Head Blow Molders
Preventive purging with a commercial product between resins or colors and during normal shutdown and startup cycles can prevent excessive loss of resin and production time.
Read MoreOf Bans, Taxes ... and Good Publicity
It’s time for processors to be more involved in telling their story to the public.
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How to Prevent Nozzle Tip Leaks, Part 2
Your very costly mold in that very expensive press is relying on the performance of a $20 nozzle tip that no one ever checks, and has a high probability of not doing its job. Stop learning from your mistakes and start learning how not to make them.
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Try This Approach to Clean Up Your Recycled Material
CO2 can be used as a totally “green” solvent to remove many kinds of contamination in recycled plastics without the need for toxic solvents.
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