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Cleaning Up - January 2001

Dirty Oil Bottles Come Clean After a decade of development and many twists and turns, CO2-based recycling technology for HDPE motor-oil bottles is finally in the right place at the right time.

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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.

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Recycle Pricing Update - March 2000

Prices Up for Most Recycled ResinsFollowing the volatile virgin-resin market, prices for recycled grades of PET, polystyrene, and PVC have soared in recent months.

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Postconsumer

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.

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Companies Formed to Recycle PLA

Two firms have been established to recycle polylactic acid (PLA) biopolymer.

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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.

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Extrusion

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.

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Recycle Pricing: RPET Prices Up From Summer, Stabilizing in First Quarter

The recycled PET 大象传媒 was slow in the last two months of 2009, but recyclers say that was not unexpected or even very unusual.

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plant tour

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.

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Wood on Plastics: Sustainable Packaging: A Lot More Than Buzzwords

Packaging is at the nexus of every global supply chain and customer relationship, because for every product sold in stores, there is both primary and secondary packaging.鈥擶al-Mart sustainable packaging fact sheet.

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