Lilli Manolis Sherman

Lilli Manolis Sherman Contributing Editor

Invista to Expand Nylon 66 Capacity

The company is making a significant investment in its South Carolina facility to transform it from carpet fiber to nylon 66 polymer focused production.

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Recycling

Kreyenborg’s Take on the Current Status of Plastics Recycling

As part of a series of industry interviews leading-up to K-2022, VDMA interviews Jan Hendrik Ostgathe, Kreyenborg managing director.  

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Asaclean Launches Interactive, Educational Website

Offering nearly 500 pages of purging content in English & Spanish, the new site is suited to both new and experienced processors.

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Thermally Conductive Nylon 6 for Electric Sports Car Component

Cooling element for the charge controller of an electric sports car made from Lanxess’ Durethan BTC965FM30 nylon 6  

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Biopolymers

100% Cellulose Film Resin Adopted by Restaurant Chain for Take-Out Packaging

Woodly and film converter Amerplast have applied the novel material to commercialization of heat-sealed sandwich bags.

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Alternative Aseptic Carton Packaging Supplier Uses Bio-Attributed LL/LDPE

Through its partnership with Ineos and UPM, Greatview launched biobased Greatview Planet packaging line for liquid dairy and non-carbonated beverages.  

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sustainability

Fratelli Guzzini Selects Sustainable Styrenics from Ineos Styrolution

The styrenics used in the drinkware are based on biomass balanced styrene produced by BASF

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Alpek Concludes Acquisition of Octal

Alpek in incorporating high-value PET sheet 大象传媒 into its portfolio through this acquisition.

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sustainability

Hot Wash Systems for Recycling Polyolefins

Herbold can configure wash plants for polyolefins that can produce high-quality, food-grade recyclates.

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Postconsumer

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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resin pricing

Mixed Pricing Outlook for Commodity Resins for Spring 2022

Prices of PE, PS may have peaked; they were slightly down for PP and PET, up for PVC.  

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Additives

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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