Postindustrial

sustainability

Extrusion Vet Guthrie Supplies Recycling Equipment

Long-time extrusion industry executive Sandy Guthrie has started his own recycling equipment company.

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sustainability

From the Ashes, A More Efficient Film Operation Emerges

Three years after a fire destroyed most of its operation, Tex-Trude came back as a more productive extrusion ´óÏó´«Ã½.

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K 2010 Preview, Auxiliaries: Equipment of All Types Debuts This Month at K 2010

From materials drying, feeding, and blending to process heating/cooling, scrap reclaiming, testing, welding, and decorating—the K 2010 show this month in Dusseldorf, Germany, will have news in all categories of auxiliary equipment.

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Postconsumer

Recycling & Scrap Reclaim at NPE 2003

Most of the news to be found at NPE in post-consumer recycling comes from Europe and concerns direct recycling of PET flake into sheet without repelletizing.

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Postindustrial

Processors Wins Business Running Reclaim Nobody Else Wants

SelecTech’s ´óÏó´«Ã½ model is unique as a company involved in recycling, so too is its success.

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sustainability

Twin-Screw Demo System for Sheet Extrusion from Undried PET

Leistritz has installed ZSE-27 and ZSE-50 Maxx twin-screw extrusion systems in its Somerville, N.J., process laboratory to demonstrate the energy savings possible by reprocessing undried PET in-line with direct sheet extrusion.

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Postconsumer

Sustainability Drives Innovation at Leading RPET Processors

Two Southern California processors have boldly gone where no one has ever gone before.

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Postconsumer

A Recycling 'First' for Food Containers

The Bottle Box is a new clamshell food container made of 100% post-consumer PET beverage bottles.

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nanocomposites

Largest PET Recycling Plant Coming in 2010

WEB EXCLUSIVE PET resin and fiber producer DAK Americas, LLC, Charlotte, N.C., and leading carpet producer Shaw Industries Group, Inc., Dalton, Ga., have created a new joint venture to recycle PET from post-consumer bottles.

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NPE 2009 News Flash

Injection MoldingHybrid Press Has Electric ClampNew injection presses that combine servo-electric and hydraulic movements to achieve high performance with energy efficiency will be discussed by Arburg Inc., Newington, Conn.

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