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Recycling Program Announced for Nylon 3D Printed Parts

Sculpteo, part of the BASF company, announced a program to establish a circular material stream with its recycling program for 3D printed products.

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Mold-Change Time Targeted with Training, Technology

Engel is offering technology and training to molders to help them optimize their mold-changing process.

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Packaging

German Trial Demonstrates Recycling Technology for Multilayer Rigid Packaging

BASF, Krones, Sudpack, TOMRA collaboration achieves proof of concept for closed recycling loop for PET-based multilayer packaging.

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Engel Names New Leader for Global Processing Engineering

Johannes Kilian, VP Process Technologies and inject 4.0 at Engel, has been named VP Global Processing Engineering, replacing Norbert Müller.

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Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Applies Injection Molded Chassis

BlueHalo’s Intense Eye UAS has replaced a machined aerospace-grade aluminum chassis with one molded from Alpine Advanced Materials’ HX5 multi-scale reinforced polymer for a stronger, lighter craft.

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eFACTOR3 Appoints New General Sales Manager

Bradley Donnelly brings 17 years of experience in the heavy equipment industry.

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Novel Class of Engineering Thermoplastic for High-Heat Capacitor Films

Borealis’s Stelora is thermal performance gap between PP capacitor films and films based on high-temperature PPS, PTFE and PEEK.

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TPE Made with 50% PCR Derived from End-of-Life Tires

Prism Worldwide has commercialized its first TPE with this type of recycled content based on its patented technology.  

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Flexible, Multilayer Film Made With 50% Reclaim

Target for new film is mono-material packaging to replace difficult-to-recycle multi-material structures in applications that include stand-up pouches.  

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Topas Cyclic Olefin Copolymer Recognized for Recyclability with PE Film

Polyplastics’ COC has earned broader recognition from the Association of Plastics Recyclers (APR).

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