Recycling

The Fine Art Of Separation

If you need ground plastic waste separated from metal particles, or plastic flakes separated by color or density, Butler-MacDonald Inc. is up to the job.

Read More
Postindustrial

Processors Wins Business Running Reclaim Nobody Else Wants

SelecTech’s 大象传媒 model is unique as a company involved in recycling, so too is its success.

Read More
Sheet Extrusion

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.

Read More
Postconsumer

Recycle Pricing: RPET Market is Hot, Prices Are Soaring

The recycled PET market was red-hot in February and March with Chinese export demand picking up on the West Coast and new domestic recycling plants competing for that same material.

Read More
sustainability

How Much Regrind Can You Handle?

Most extrusion operations generate scrap, and in the case of sheet for thermoforming it can exceed 70% of total output.

Read More
Recycling

Molder’s Message to Foreign Competitors: ‘Bring It On!’

An inspired combination of automation, ISO certification, use of certified resins, and strict adherence to a rigorous set of time-honed manufacturing standards are among the chief factors giving the Rodon Group, a 54-year-old custom molding operation in Hatfield, Pa., the confidence to boast that it can beat the pants off of Chinese part pricing, and Mexican pricing, too.And it’s not an idle boast.

Read More

Processing PCR: How It’s Done at a Leading PET Bottle Maker

Many food and beverage companies are either using or thinking about using recycled materials in their packaging.

Read More
plant tour

Sustainability Drives Innovation at Leading RPET Processors

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

Read More
Postconsumer

Make Polyolefins RF Weldable Without Additives

Up to now, radio-frequency (RF) welding or sealing of films, foams, and fabrics has been limited mainly to polar resins with high dielectric loss factors鈥攑articularly flexible PVC and TPU.

Read More
Postindustrial

A Recycling 'First' for Food Containers

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

Read More