Recycled Materials

sustainability

Nova Chemicals Joins Cyclyx as Another New Member

The consortium-based supply chain innovation company has a mission to boost the recycling rate of plastic from 10% to 90%.

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Encina Announces Major Investment in New Advanced Recycling Manufacturing Facility

The $1.1 billion investment will lead to a state-of-the-art advanced recycling facility in Point Township, Penn., to convert PCR to feedstock for new products.

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Nova Chemicals and Enerkem Advance with Chemical Recycling Technology

The ‘partners’ are closer to commercialization with the move to pilot stage in Edmonton, Alberta.

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Sealed Air Becomes Newest Member of Cyclyx Consortium

The consortium-based supply chain innovation company’s mission is to increase the recycling rate of plastic from 10% to 90%.  

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Starlinger Viscotec rPET100 Wins Award

The heat-resistant, fully-recyclable material won Re|focus Sustainable Innovation in Material Award 2022

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‘Learn to Embrace Variability’

Wait. What? Variability in raw materials is supposed to be the last thing anyone would want to ‘embrace.’ But if you substitute ‘circular economy’ for ‘variability’ and ‘manage with technology’ for ‘embrace’—then the mystery starts to clear.

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WEIMA Partners with City of Charlotte in Progressive Recycling Initiative

Envision Charlotte Innovation Barn tackles take-away containers.  

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Elastomers

Sugar-Based Plastics Developments Advance Further

Research team from universities of Birmingham and Duke zero in on sugar-based compound that produces TPEs with highest  performance.

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Braskem Invests in Nexus Circular to Increase Advanced Recycling Efforts

Braskem has stated targets for growing the company's recycled content product portfolio to sales of 300,000 tons by 2025 and 1 million tons by 2030.  

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Can Coinjection Help Solve the Coming Recycled Content Conundrum?

As companies push toward self-imposed recycled content requirements or are compelled to do so by governments, Mold-Masters positions its coinjection technology as a solution.

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Plastics Size Reduction