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Teknor Apex Acquires Nu-Pro Polymers
The acquisition expands Teknor’s flexible vinyl compounds offerings with Nu-Pro’s Cycle-Tek reprocessed PVC compounds with up to 90% PIR content.
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UK Innovation Agency Awards Funding to Recycling Technology Consortium
Innovate UK awarded funding to support Stopford and Birmingham University’s collaboration, which uses supercritical water to break down plastic.
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Circular Packaging Based on Perstorp’s Akestra 100 and 110 Officially Endorsed in Europe
Perstorp’s next-generation co-polyester enhance thermoformed recycled PET products by adding heat resistance capabilities and more.
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NOVA Chemicals appoints Roger Kearns as President and CEO
Kearns to accelerate implementation of NOVA’s vision to become North America’s leading sustainable PE producer.
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iMFLUX Goes Royalty-Free and Transitions to Mainly R&D Role
By July, P&G will close the iMFLUX site and move to royalty-free licensing through injection-machine vendors and third-party retrofitters. An iMFLUX R&D team will continue to develop the technology.
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Bekum Promotes Terry Grost to After Sales Manager
Thirty-year Bekum veteran assumes responsibility for customer service, spare parts and rebuilds.
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Nexa3D Acquires Addifab
The maker of polymer 3D printers and the creator of technology for injection-molding-ready printed tooling are fully joined after announcing a collaboration last year.
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Indorama and Evertis Collaboration Aims for PET Film From Recycled Trays
Indorama and Evertis announced they will collaborate to make food packaging film from recycled PET trays.
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Trexel & W. Müller Team Up on Multilayer Foam Blow Molding
MuCell technology gains new momentum in blow molded packaging through this partnership of a leader in physical foaming with supercritical gases and a leader in coex blow molding hardware and controls.
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Plastics Machinery Shipments Rose in 2022’s Final Quarter
The Plastics Industry Association’s (PLASTICS) Committee on Equipment Statistics (CES) reported that injection molding and extrusion machinery shipments totaled $432.7 million in Q4.
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