Lilli Manolis Sherman

Lilli Manolis Sherman Contributing Editor

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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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Biopolymers

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 ´óÏó´«Ã½ into its portfolio through this acquisition.

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Postconsumer

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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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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Commodity Resins

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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sustainability

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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Electronics

High-Flow PEI ‘Captures’ Burn-In Test Socket Manufacturer

S. Korea’s Sensata is one of the first BiTS makers to adopt SABIC’s new Superflow Ultem.

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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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Process Cooling