Recycled Materials
Igus Unveils World’s “First” Urban Bike Made from Recycled Plastic
The engineering concept and key components for bikes made of recycled plastic are available to all bike manufacturers.
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Additive Supplier, Film Processor Get Grant to Advance Multilayer Film Recycling
Interface Polymers and Flexipol awarded $1 million+ grant to provide fully recyclable LDPE multilayer packaging.
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Fast, Simple QC Method Directly Quantifies Recycled Content in Plastics
Novel fluorescence-based spin-out technology provides a rapid and reliable method to measure and certify recycled content in a wide range of plastics.
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UBQ Partners with Polymer-Metallization Specialist Polymertal to Create Lightweight, Sustainable Material for Complex Assemblies with Metallic Functionalities
Polymertal’s cutting-edge metal plating processes enable production of cost-effective hybrid metal-polymer parts for automotive, aerospace, communications and industrial sectors.
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Powder Coating With Recycled Plastic
Sherwin-Williams’ Powdura ECO line uses rPET resin to make a green finishing process even greener.
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Revolution Develops Innovative Approach to Recycling Stretch Film
The company’s approach includes collection, cleaning and recycling of stretch film.
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Recycling Technology for Multilayer PVDC-Coated PET Films
Solvay and Carbios have shown that multilayer PET films coated with Solvay’s Diofan PVDC high-barrier polymer are fully compatible for enzymatic depolymerization.
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Regrind On the Mind
Discarding runners and scrap would always give most molders pause, but with record-high resin prices and sustainability front and center, putting those materials into parts instead of a dumpster is more important than ever.
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Testing & Research Center to Install Lindner Washtech’s Plastic Washing System
Netherlands independent lab NTCP expects the new installation will optimize its research which focused on examining the behavior of different plastics during sorting and washing.
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McDonalds is Testing 50/50 PCR/Biobased Clear PP Cups
Ineos and Pactiv Evergreen are key part of the team in this project.
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