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In Sustainable Packaging, the Word is ‘Monomaterial’
In both flexible and rigid packaging, the trend is to replace multimaterial laminates, coextrusions and “composites” with single-material structures, usually based on PE or PP. Nonpackaging applications are following suit.
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SPE Automotive Awards Hail ‘Firsts’ and New Technologies
The 2022 automotive innovations awards gave nods to several ‘firsts’ and added alternative vehicle systems category
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Ultra-Compact PET Machine For 12 L in Two Cavities
New size of all-electric reheat stretch-blow machine for large PET bottles debuted from 1Blow at K 2022. It retains the company’s signature small footprint and energy-sparing features.
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Cross-Linkable Formulations for Photovoltaic Cables
Avient’s Eccoh XL 8148 PE-based formulations support the rising need for solar power generation.
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New Designs for Electric & Hybrid Packaging and Industrial Blow Molding Machines
Introduced at K 2022, Bekum’s 21 models in the new EBLOW 8 Series and XBLOW designs include all-electric packaging machines from small to large, plus industrial units with a novel two-stage clamp in servohydraulic or hybrid versions.
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Flexible Film Processor Opens Recycling Lab
TC Transcontinental Packaging’s new facility allows it to facilitate development of new products in the areas of compostable, recyclable, and recycled content packaging.
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3D Printing Method Fabricates Complex Metal Plastic Composite Structures
Researchers from Japan and Singapore have developed a new 3D printing technique to create precise metal patterns on the surfaces of 3D plastic structures to target next generation electronics.
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Celanese to ‘Shine’ at CES 2023 with Expanded Portfolio of Materials
With it acquisition of DuPont’s engineering resins, Celanese’s resin solutions for automotive electrification, e-mobility and consumer electronics are plentiful.
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Record Reshoring Rates in 2022
Reshoring and foreign direct investment (FDI) in the third quarter marked their highest ever level, eclipsing the previous record set in the second quarter of 2022.
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ABC Technologies to Acquire Windsor Mold Group Technologies
The Tier One automotive supplier with compounding and blowmolding machine capabilities adds the 50-yr-old molder and moldmaker.
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