sustainability

Temperature Controller Accepts Renewable, DC Power

Wittmann’s newest temperature controller — the Tempro plus DC — can use direct current (DC) power generated by solar panels without conversion loss.

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sustainability

Policy Strategy On Plastic Pollution Released

White House will seek to curb government purchase of single-use plastic, study pollution sources and fund management infrastructure.

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sustainability

Sustainable Polymers Tech Hub to Recieve $51 Million in Federal Funding

Polymer industry cluster gets support for sustainability innovation.

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sustainability

Alcamare Recieves FDA Letter of No Objection for Recycled Polypropylene

Recycler has upgraded and reconfigured its processing lines, including significant capacity increase.

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sustainability

Graham Packaging Commercializes Technology for Lightweighting Blow Molded Handleware

Graham Packaging’s “AccuStrength” technology for selectively reinforcing extruded parisons with vertical ribs now has a commercial application in laundry detergent.

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Performance Nylon 6 and 66 Resins with High PCR/PIR Content

Syensqo has further extended its Omnix Echo portfolio of circular engineering resins with five new additions.

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Packaging

New Bottle Base for Nitrogen-Dosed Products in 100% rPET

Sidel’s new StarLITE-R Nitro offers an alternative to petaloid bases with equal performance in a wide range of 100% rPET bottle sizes.

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INEOS Commissions Film Line for Development of Recyclable Films

Technology aimed at reducing complexity of multilayer packaging films.

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Postconsumer

Trinseo Starts Up PMMA Depolymerization Facility

The Italian facility’s chemical recycling process returns acrylics, including PMMA sheets, to monomer methyl methacrylate (MMA)

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Recycling

Breaking News From NPE2024

Here is a firsthand report of news in injection molding, extrusion, blow molding and recycling not previously covered.  

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Process Cooling