Lilli Manolis Sherman

Lilli Manolis Sherman Contributing Editor

sustainability

ExxonMobil Completes First Commercial Sale of Certified Circular Polymers

Berry Global is the company’s first customer of resins based on ExxonMobil’s Exxtend advanced recycling of plastic waste technology.

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polystyrene

Prices Firm for Polyolefins, PS and PET

PVC prices have the weakest outlook among commodity resins.

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Novel LLDPEs Enable Films that Are 'Ahead of Their Time'

ExxonMobil’s new Exceed XP 7 series boasts remarkable mechanical performance combined with low density and fractional melt index.  

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Thermoforming

Award-Winning Thermoformer: Ray Products Focuses on Pressure Forming for Crisp Aesthetics, Part-to-Part Repeatability

Ray Products’ pressure-forming expertise was recognized in the 2021 SPE Thermoforming Gold Award for its multi-part medical cart made with thermoplastics to replace cast urethane.

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Biopolymers

NatureWorks and IMA Step-Up Testing of Compostable Coffee Pod

Initial filling tests at IMA’ lab on K-Cyo based on NatureWorks’ low-carbon Ingeo PLA accelerate based on promising results.

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Recycling

A New ‘Supercritical Water’ Approach to Recycling Plastic Packaging Waste

University of Birmingham license the rights to its technology to U.K.’s Stopford to develop a novel process for recycling mixed plastic packaging to obtain high-value recycled plastic.  

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Electronics

Logitech Scales-Up Use of Recycled Plastic in Electronic Products

About 65% of mice & keyboards in the company’s largest product portfolio now use post-consumer recycled plastic

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Postprocessing

Unique Coating Reduces Friction of Sliding Plastic, Ceramic and Metallic Components

Oerlikon Balzers extremely thin, hard Diamond-Like Carbon (DLC) coating decreases the COF of components to nearly zero, while increasing wear resistance  

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Additives

OCSiAl Gets Green Light for Luxemburg Graphene Nanotube Production Facility

New capacity expected to boost efficiency of plastics and rubber for the automotive industry.  

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Postprocessing

Polyfuze Graphics Expands its Technology with “Intelligent Materials Crystals” for Reusable and Durable Plastics

The company’s unique polymer fusion labeling can now be produced with a unique tagging technology, under the name D-Tect.

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Solvay to Expand Its U.S.-Based Sulfone Polymers Business

The multi-year plan is aimed at meeting strong customer demand growth in life science applications.

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Biopolymers

Bioplastics Family Gets Increasing Play in Luxury Cosmetics Applications

Finland’s Sulapac eco-startup founded by two female biochemists specializing in biomaterials has been steadily making inroads with companies like Chanel.

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