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sustainability

NREL Builds and Tests Wind Turbine Blade With Recyclable Resin

Material can be sourced from biomass and chemically recycled, enabling sustainable end-of-life management.

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Absolute Haitian Names New Sales Representation in Ontario

Sales of Haitian injection molding machines in Ontario will be led by Simmie Thiara of AceTronic Industrial Control.

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Borealis and Infinium Plan to Produce Plastics From Captured Emissions

Carbon dioxide capture and storage will feed polyolefin operation.

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Extrusion

NASA Uses Polyimide to Study Insulation of Electric Engines in Aerospace

NASA’s use of Aurum PI showed properties that make it a candidate for electrical wiring for future aerospace transportation.

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Automation

Yaskawa Opens Expanded Headquarters

Yaskawa America’s Motoman robotics division opened the completed 185,000-ft.2 expansion of its headquarters in Miamisburg, Ohio.

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Packaging

Brewer Chooses Quick-Change Flexibility to Blow Wide Range of PET Beer Bottles

Beermaster Brewery found a “universal” stretch-blow machine from PET Technologies enables multiple changes per day among four sizes of beer bottles.

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Plastics Machinery Shipments Decline in Second Quarter

PLASTICS reported that shipments for primary plastics machinery in North America fell 15.4% compared to the second quarter and 36.2% on a year-over-year basis.

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Packaging

Mass Production Partnership for All PET Caps Announced

Origin Materials and Reed City Group announced partnership to produce bottle closures from PET.

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Nolan Strall to Step Down as President of KraussMaffei in the US

Brett Greenhalgh will take over for Strall as the leader of KraussMaffei Corp. in America effective Sept. 1.

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