sustainability
Direct Solar Heating for Rotational Molding Enables Feedback Control and Rapid Deployment
Light Manufacturing offers rotomolding factory in a box, with no utilities needed.
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High-Performance Resealable Lidding BOPET Film
Terphane’s Resealphane is the company’s latest innovation within its Selaphane product line.
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Researchers Find Foaming Bioplastics Reduce Environmental Persistence
Seawater testing shows rapid degradation for potential polystyrene substitute.
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Survey Reports 61 Million Pounds of Expanded Polystyrene Transport Packaging Recycled
Report suggests programs to recover polystyrene from secondary packaging have yielded results in North America.
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CJ Biomaterials Hires Leah Ford as Director of Marketing
Ford has background in biopolymer technology having worked for PLA bioplastics supplier NatureWorks.
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US Plastics Pact Updates Postconsumer Recycled Content Toolkit
Toolkit is intended to help converters to reduce virgin plastic consumption by incorporating recycled content.
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BASF Delivers Biomass-Balanced Ammonia to Evonik
BASF’s BMBcert ammonia grade will be used by Evonik for production of nylon 12 and epoxy curing agents.
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Fighting Dust and Noise in Regrind Operations
Mayhew Basque Plastics implemented lower speed granulators to deal with challenging materials.
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Coinjection Technology Showcases Recycled Material Containment
At Fakuma, an all-electric PXZ Multinject machine sandwiches a black core made of mechanically recycled PC/ABS within an outer layer made of chemically recycled ABS.
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The Importance of Mass Balance in Chemical Recycling
Approaches to mass balance can dramatically impact calculations of recycled content.
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