End Markets
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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Extrusion: High-Output Stretch Film Line
New ‘hands-free’ die control is said to permit fast and easy product changes.
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Thermoforming: Next-Generation Cup Former
Front-to-back enhancements come with no increase in machine footprint.
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Texas A&M and U.K. Researchers Team up to Advance Research into Sustainable Polycarbonate
Teysha Technologies’ ‘Plug-and-Play’ technology utilizes bio-sourced feedstock.
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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Data Driven, Employee Owned
Approaching its seventh decade in business, PTA Plastics has shifted its location and remade its customer base since its founding in 1953, but many things have not changed in the intervening years, including an emphasis on people and leading-edge technologies.
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Recyclable All-PE Pouches: Sustainable Opportunity for Film Extruders
Sustainability and the Circular Economy are both a challenge and an opportunity to flexible packaging producers. Recyclable pouches based on all-PE multilayer structures, utilizing new resins and perhaps techniques like MDO or biaxial orientation, appear to be major contenders against glass, metal, and multi-material film structures.
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Thermoformer Sees Business Bump From New Machine Installation
Addition of fast-cycling form/cut/stack unit leads to new business over $1 million.
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Danimer Scientific and UrthPact Have Partnered in the Manufacture of Fully Biodegradable Straws
UrthPact expands line of compostable single-use straws with marine degradable options using Danimer’s Nodax PHA.
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Texas A&M & Teysha Technologies Team Up to Advance Research into Sustainable Polycarbonate
The ‘plug-and-play’ technology utilizes bio-sourced feedstocks.
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