sustainability
Injection Molding: Optimize Screw Recovery for Better Melt Quality, Less Wear
Engel’s new iQ melt control extends plastication time as much as possible without lengthening the cycle.
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Second Act for Shaffer’s Consulting Business Includes Sustainability
Machinery and molding veteran restarts consulting ´óÏó´«Ã½ with an eye on technology and ecology.
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Dow's Project MASARO Seeks to Create Blueprint for Zero-Waste Communities
Project MASARO provides communities in Indonesia with a closed loop waste management system, which processes many types of waste into valuable products, like fuel and fertilizer, that can be used by members of the community.
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BASF's Chemical Recycling Process Produces Virgin Grade Material for Food-Contact Approved Quality
Creating flexible packaging such as stand-up pouches from virgin-grade material derived from plastic waste is taking a step closer to reality in BASF’s ChemCycling project.
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Global Packaging Producer Pays Trash Pickers for Recyclable Plastics
UFlex, India’s largest flexible packaging producer will pay people to collect plastics trash for the company’s recycling programs.
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Recycling: Cascade Retrofit Package for Extruders
MAS says that its cascade retrofit package is an efficient way to increase the performance of existing recycling plants.
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Bunting Hires Clausing as Lean Manufacturing Coordinator
Will focus on utilizing a lean manufacturing mindset in order to reduce and eliminate waste.
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Materials: Recycle Content Copolyesters for Cosmetic Cases
Eastman’s new copolyesters demonstrate circular economy credentials to the cosmetics sector.
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Unlikely Pairing: Environmental Activist and Multinational Packaging Manufacturer See Eye to Eye on Global Plastic Waste Crisis
Both want plastics out of the natural environment. They agree that human behavior is the problem. One global firm is altering its own behavior to promote four types of recycling.
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Recycling: NGR and Kuhne to Showcase PET Recycling/Sheet Production Line
A demonstration line for viewing direct rPET to sheet has been arranged in the large R&D area of the Kuhne Group in nearby St. Augustin during K 2019.
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