News

All-Plastic, Recyclable Aerosol Spray Bottle

Plastipak introduces spray bottle designed for recyclability.

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Biopolymers

Testing Demonstrates Feasibility of Sorting PLA From Mixed Waste Streams

Tomra and Total Energies Corbion confirmed that PLA could be separated from other plastics.

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Extrusion

ENTEK Gets Government Funding to Bolster Battery-Separator Production

Firm has produced ‘wet-process’ films in Oregon for decades.

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sustainability

Bockatech Pushes New Boundaries at K 2022

Three years after debuting at K 2019, Bockatech’s EcoCore technology is boasting faster cycle times and lighter containers with greater properties as it targets more verticals and broader brandowner adoption.

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sustainability

Joint Venture Will Build Largest Mechanical Recycling Plant in India

Lyondell Basell and Shakti Plastic Agreed to Build and Operate Plant to Process PCR

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Thermoforming

Manufacturer Helps Clean Up Global Waterways with Reclaimed Plastics

RSP and Oceanworks partnership diverts plastic wastes from waterways for incorporation into new products.

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All-rPET Bottles with Glued-in Handles Save Material

At K 2022, KHS is showing a 2.3 L PET bottle with glued-in handle that offers 10% material savings and other advantages over clip-in handles. Bottle and handle are both 100% rPET.

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Blow Molding

Old Fishing Nets to Child’s Watering Can: Blow Molding rPE at K Show

High-quality marine recyclate is suited to continuous-extrusion blow molding without an accumulator head.

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PET

Sidel Opens New R&D Hub to Study Design for Recycling PET Packaging

Sidel’s small-scale recycling line in France will study different PCR materials for bottle-to-bottle rPET recycling.

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Packaging

Mold Opaque White PET Bottles – Without Pigment

Trexel and Husky are cooperating on molding recyclable opaque white preforms for PET bottles, which provide a light barrier using foam instead of pigment.

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Process Cooling
Blending & Dosing
Plastics Size Reduction