Lilli Manolis Sherman

Lilli Manolis Sherman Contributing Editor

Postconsumer

Igus Unveils World’s “First” Urban Bike Made from Recycled Plastic

The engineering concept and key components for bikes made of recycled plastic are available to all bike manufacturers.

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resin pricing

Mixed Pricing Outlook for Commodity Resins for Spring 2022

Prices of PE, PS may have peaked; they were slightly down for PP and PET, up for PVC.  

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Additives

Additive Supplier, Film Processor Get Grant to Advance Multilayer Film Recycling

Interface Polymers and Flexipol awarded $1 million+ grant to provide fully recyclable LDPE multilayer packaging.

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High-Flow PEI ‘Captures’ Burn-In Test Socket Manufacturer

S. Korea’s Sensata is one of the first BiTS makers to adopt SABIC’s new Superflow Ultem.

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Elastomers

Foster Adds Specialty TPU and TPU Alloy Products to its Arsenal of Healthcare Materials

AdvanSource Biomaterials’ specialty TPU materials are used in application  segments such as cardiology, orthopedics, drug delivery, endoscopy, wound care, urology, and neurology.  

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sustainability

CJ BIO and NatureWorks Working Towards a Master Collaboration Agreement to Commercialize Novel Biopolymers

The two companies have agreed to collaborate on creating advanced products based on industry-leading Ingeo PLA and Phact PHA technologies to meet growing demand for sustainable materials across a broad  array of markets  

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Additives

Chemours Leads Remove2Reclaim Project to Advance Plastic Circularity

Project aims to develop commercial-scale detection and extraction technologies that enable the removal and recovery of TiO2 and polymers for reuse.  

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Commodity Resins

TotalEnergies and New Hope Energy Partner on U.S. Advanced Recycling Project

New Hope Energy will build the plant that will transform end-of-life plastic waste into a recycled feedstock that Total Energies will purchase and convert into virgin-quality polymers.

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sustainability

Fast, Simple QC Method Directly Quantifies Recycled Content in Plastics

Novel fluorescence-based spin-out technology provides a rapid and reliable method to measure and certify recycled content in a wide range of plastics.

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Thermoforming

Brueckner Group USA Moving to Bigger Space

New facility in New Hampshire will serve the local customer base better and enhance capabilities in the North American market.

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UBQ Partners with Polymer-Metallization Specialist Polymertal to Create Lightweight, Sustainable Material for Complex Assemblies with Metallic Functionalities

Polymertal’s cutting-edge metal plating processes enable production of cost-effective hybrid metal-polymer parts for automotive, aerospace, communications and industrial sectors.

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Domo Offers Injection Molding Simulation Database for Nylons

Domo’s new service provides customer with access to the most up-to-date extensive and validated Technyl nylon 6 and 66 products.

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