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sustainability

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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Plastics Pioneers Inducts Seven New Members

New members bring a wealth of experience in both the commercial and technical sides of the industry.  

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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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sustainability

Practical Guide to Sustainability Management

New book aims to help plastics processors set and achieve sustainability goals.

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Postconsumer

S&B Selected as Contractor for New Hope Energy Advanced Plastics Recycling Unit

New Hope Energy and Total Energies collaboration for an advanced plastics recycling unit gains momentum.

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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

Engel Opens Packaging Centers

Fit-for-purpose production cells for a wide variety of packaging are available at two Austrian locations—Schwertberg and St. Valentin—as part of the new Packaging Centers.

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Biopolymers

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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industry 4.0

Compounder Spins Off Home-Made Industry 4.0 Platform

Alterra to offer SmartChronos iIOT platform, which it’s been using on its own lines, to other processors

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Desktop Metal and Lumafield Partner to CT Scan and Print Parts

The manufacturer of 3D printers and the supplier of an industrial X-ray CT platform are coming together to address supply chain disruptions and allow manufacturers to create new parts without original CAD models.

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