sustainability

sustainability

Herbold USA Installs Rooftop Solar Energy System

In the fall of 2015, the company purchased a rooftop solar energy system to provide electrical power to its 10,000 square foot facility located in North Smithfield.

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Postconsumer

Erema Opens New Upcycling Facility For Recycled Materials

The company invested about 2 million Euros in its 'UpCentre' facility, which features a COREMA 1108 T for a maximum monthly production of 500 tons.

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SPE Auto Innovation Award Winners in Safety, Environmental, Aftermarket

Aftermarket category added to 2015 SPE Auto Innovation Awards

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Construction

Additives: Multi-Purpose Modifiers Pump Up Properties of Virgin & Recycled Plastics

A new slate of compatibilizers, chain extenders, and process aids improve properties and processability of resin alloys and mixed post-consumer recycle.

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Postconsumer

U.S. Plastic Bottle Recycling Reaches 3 Billion Pounds

Single-stream collection of household recyclables continues to grow, resulting in higher participation rates.

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sustainability

Injection Molder: How Plastics and Sustainability Go Together

Plastics might be many environmentalist’s Public Enemy No. 1, but in Illinois, Hoffer Plastics was just recognized for showing how sustainable the material, and those who process it, can be.

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Postconsumer

New Plastics Recovery Facility To Open in Baltimore

One of the biggest barriers to increasing recycling rates is a lack of infrastructure.

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Why & When Should You Re-Crystallize PET Scrap?

Whether you’re blow molding PET bottles or extruding APET sheet, you’ll produce amorphous scrap in the process. How you handle it will impact your production costs. Re-crystallizing it will help.

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Thermoforming

Breaking the Downward Slide?

Processing market seems to have stabilized.

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Blending & Dosing
Process Cooling