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sustainability

PS Recycling Project Launched in Montreal

The Canadian Plastics Industry Association (CPIA), along with the city of Montreal and other partners, is embarking on a polystyrene recycling project that it hopes will be a model for future endeavors of this type.

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Multicomponent

Headlines from the K 2013 Show

Here’s just a taste of the innovations on display, a selection of the top headlines not covered in our September show preview.

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Packaging

Stackable, Recloseable Package Hits Store Shelves

Clear Lam’s revolutionary PrimaPak debuts as package for pretzels.

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Engineering Plastics Kick Metals Out of the Kitchen

WEB EXCLUSIVE: At K 2013, Celanese takes metal replacement into a wholly new application—a kitchen oven.

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Packaging

Blown Film Line Combines Style, Substance

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Three years in the making, unique Varex II blown-film line from W&H that debuted at K 2013 features clean, sleek look and offers upgrades in throughput and control as well.

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Automotive

Nylon 410 Slashes Weight & Cost in Engine Crankshaft Cover

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Next-generation Volkswagen diesel engines will benefit from a multi-functional crankshaft cover made of biobased nylon 410 from DSM Engineering Plastics.

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Materials

High-Gloss, Piano-Black SAN Exterior Pillars Cut Weight & Cost

WEB EXCLUSIVE: Jaguar Land Rover’s new Range Rover Evoque features high-gloss, piano-black A, B, C, and D exterior pillars made from a specialty SAN grade, Luran HH120 SPF50, from Styrolution.

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Sheet Extrusion

New Source of Flexographic Printers

Allstein GmbH opens sales office New Jersey to offer 'rugged press that is easy to use and attractively priced.'

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Packaging

Super-Lightweight PET Bottles

Lightest ever still water, hot-fill PET bottles debut at Drinktec sow.

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polyolefins

PP Cup Billed as Alternative to PS Foam

Cellular structure is created during the sheet extrusion process using atmospheric gas.

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