sustainability
Testing Demonstrates Feasibility of Sorting PLA From Mixed Waste Streams
Tomra and Total Energies Corbion confirmed that PLA could be separated from other plastics.
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Sustainability Among the Many Niches at Niche Polymer
Founded in 1987, Niche Polymer continues to grow—both organically and through acquisition—by focusing its product-development efforts on ever-changing market needs. Adding value to both industrial and post-consumer scrap is a growing part of this effort.
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Bockatech Pushes New Boundaries at K 2022
Three years after debuting at K 2019, Bockatech’s EcoCore technology is boasting faster cycle times and lighter containers with greater properties as it targets more verticals and broader brandowner adoption.
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Joint Venture Will Build Largest Mechanical Recycling Plant in India
Lyondell Basell and Shakti Plastic Agreed to Build and Operate Plant to Process PCR
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Old Fishing Nets to Child’s Watering Can: Blow Molding rPE at K Show
High-quality marine recyclate is suited to continuous-extrusion blow molding without an accumulator head.
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Of Covered Bridges and Recycling
It may seem like a long way around to the subject of recycling, but a recent drive over an old bridge led to an opportunity to spread the new gospel of chemical recycling.
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Energy-Saving Accumulator-Head Blow Molder
ST BlowMoulding’s new AX 880 has all-electric clamping, electro-hydraulic parison push-out, and twin adiabatic extruders.
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Sidel Opens New R&D Hub to Study Design for Recycling PET Packaging
Sidel’s small-scale recycling line in France will study different PCR materials for bottle-to-bottle rPET recycling.
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Waste Plastics Must D-I-E
New research publications describe dehydrogenation, isomerization, ethenolysis as a pathway for polyethylene recycling.
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The Secret to Molding with PCR: Don’t Fear Variation – Embrace It!
“Embrace variation” – That contradicts all normal thinking about processing plastics. But the only thing that’s “normal” about recycled plastics is variability, and that requires a processing philosophy that assumes variation and is geared to deal with it.
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