Postindustrial
Recycling E-Plastics New Material Stream Brings Its Own Set of Problems
Brominated flame retardants restrict its use. Most now goes to China, but new recycling processes promise to ‘clean up’ e-waste.
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Recyclers Now Targeting Higher-Value Engineered Resins
Recycling news from the Society of Plastics Engineers’ Global Plastics Environmental Conference (GPEC) in Orlando, Fla., in March focused on PET, nylon, and waste plastics in electronics—in other words, mainly on higher value engineered resins rather than commodities.Carpet recycling claimed two of the show’s big environmental awards.
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Clean and Upgrade Recycled PET
Two recently developed technologies are said to make high-quality PET recycling more economical.
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Eliminate Dust, Fines and Longs For Better Regrind Quality
Considering the high cost of resin and heightened concerns for product quality, it is surprising that so little attention is given to the impact of regrind quality on plastics processing.
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'As Good as New' Chain Extender Restores Reclaimed Resins
A new additive can re-link polymer chains in reclaimed PET, nylon, and polycarbonate to revive degraded properties.
Read MoreWellman Quits PET Recycling
Wellman Inc., Shrewsbury, N.J., announced that it would permanently close its flagship PET recycling and fiber production facility in Johnsonville, S.C., by the end of this month.
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Global Company, Local Creativity
Magna International, Inc. may be a global Tier One automotive parts supplier with over 220 manufacturing divisions and more than 82,000 employees, but it doesn’t stifle creativity at the individual plant level.
Read MoreNew Extrusion Process Recycles Food-Grade PET
PTP Plastic Technologies and Products bv in Prague, Czech Republic, seeks to license a reactive extrusion process to upgrade clean post-consumer PET bottle flake into food-grade PET for new bottles or film.
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NPE 2006 News Wrap-Up: Recycling and Scrap Reclaim
NPE was full of new equipment and systems for recapturing valuable in-plant scrap and post-consumer/post-industrial plastic waste. Recovery of PET packaging and film or fiber waste were particular areas of emphasis, as were lots of new granulators, from the world’s biggest to micro-size and even ‘clean-room’ models.
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PET Reclaimer Moves Downstream
When Nadim Bahou headed Envipco’s West Coast ´óÏó´«Ã½ of granulating PET bottles through “reverse vending machines” in the early 1990s, he saw there was a shortage of PET grinding capacity in the region.
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