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Self-described “waste solutions provider” Brightmark announced that it will build the “world’s largest advanced plastics recycling and renewal facility” in Macon-Bibb County, Georgia. The total investment is expected to be more than $680 million in a new plant situated on a 5.3-million-square-foot lot. The San Francisco-based company said it will employ a proprietary plastics renewal process that sustainably recycles all plastic waste that has reached the end of its useful…

You’ll be able to choose from a rich buffet of injection molding expertise at our Molding 2021 Conference, a live, in-person event coming up Sept. 21-23 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Ill., near Chicago O’Hare Airport. It’s one of your first chances in more than a year to interact face to face with experts in primary machinery, controls, auxiliary equipment, tooling, materials, and “smart factory” networking,…

The Automotive Division of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) is announcing a new category for its 50th annual Automotive Innovation Awards Gala: Automotive Plastics Industry Solutions for COVID-19. It will highlight how automotive OEMs and suppliers adapted their processes, materials, or business to support international needs for battling COVID-19. “The automotive plastics industry developed a number of extraordinary innovations for battling COVID-19,” said Jeffrey Helms, global automotive director, Celanese…

Global fashion brand Scotch & Soda, based in Amsterdam, is a longtime partner of Plastic Whale, which collects and recycles waste plastic bottles from the city’s iconic canals and uses them to build boats. To honor World Environment Day on June 9, they collaborated to fashion this vessel, the Free Spirit of Amsterdam, sporting the Scotch & Soda brand colors. It typically requires approximately 5,000 PET bottles for Plastic Whale to make…

The Plant Based Products Council (PBPC) is getting ready to celebrate World Environment Day on Saturday, June 5, and is encouraging “people across the world to be part of the restoration generation and take action to protect our Earth,” said an announcement from the organization. “Expanding the use of plant-based products is an important step toward meeting key climate goals.” Obviously, the PBPC is promoting plant-based products as an eco-friendly…