Heather Caliendo

Heather Caliendo Senior Editor

Postindustrial

Dow Launches New Project to Reduce Plastic Waste in Nigeria

Adwoa Coleman, Dow’s Africa sustainability and advocacy manager for packaging and specialty plastics, talks about the importance of this recycling project. 

Read More
Postindustrial

Klöckner Pentaplast Expands its Recycled PET Capacity in North America

The multi-million dollar capacity expansion will be located among the eight North American locations that are best situated to serve its sustainable consumer and protein packaging customer base.

Read More
Automotive

GM Using Stratasys 3D Printing Systems for Ventilator Tooling Production

GM’s director of additive manufacturing, Ron Daul, talks with Plastics Technology about the company’s investment in 3D printing technologies. 

Read More
sustainability

Sealed Air Invests in Recycling Company Plastic Energy

Through this collaboration with Plastic Energy, Sealed Air is helping to eliminate plastic waste, support complementary approaches to recycling and enable its customers to incorporate recycled plastics back into their packaging.

Read More
Postindustrial

APR’s PCR Certification Program Continues to Grow

The first industry program to certify postconsumer resin (PCR) for use in packaging has seen much faster acceptance in the marketplace than anticipated, according to APR.

Read More
sustainability

Ineos Styrolution, Recycling Technologies to Partner on Recycling Polystyrene

Recycling Technologies’ chemical recycling technology, which is currently used for mixed plastics, will be developed to recycle polystyrene.

Read More
sustainability

Graham Packaging Highlights Progress With Plastics Recycling

In 2019, 375 million containers were diverted from landfills by the Graham Recycling Operation. 

Read More

Cincinnati Incorporated Partners with Multiax America on Additive Manufacturing

The partnership will allow each company to offer needed products in the additive manufacturing space.

Read More
Postconsumer

Project STOP Announces New Advancements to Combat Plastic Pollution

Launched in 2017 by Borealis and SYSTEMIQ, Project STOP works with cities to create effective waste management systems that eliminate plastics leakage into the ocean and create circular systems in Southeast Asia. 

Read More

Arkema Invests in Continuous Composites

Arkema has invested in the American start-up to advance the development of 3D composite manufacturing.

Read More

Materials: New Medical-Grade Polypropylene-like Material For 3D Printing

xMED412 combines the physical properties and biocompatibility of medical-grade materials and is ideal for the production of various devices across industries.

Read More

Materials: New PAEK Filament Optimized for Additive Manufacturing

Chinese 3D printing manufacturer INTAMSYS becomes the first reseller of Victrex’s new AM PAEK for 3D printing.

Read More
Best of the Best
Stop Wasting. Start Shredding
TD-Series Desiccant Dryers
New CM-17d
Shibaura Machine Industrial IoT machiNetCloud
New 2024 Twin Screw Report
Glycon's DM2: The High Performance Feedscrew
Resinworks with Optimizer
Guill - World Leader in Extrusion Tooling