Resin taxes, extended producer responsibility and environmental justice are among the materials-related legislative and policy debates we can expect to see in 2022. Today’s Material Insights features Steve Toloken, Plastics News’ staff expert on plastics and policy.
Total Corbion PLA has launched the world’s first commercially available chemically recycled bioplastics product—more specifically rPLA. The Luminy rPLA grades boast the same properties, characteristics and regulatory approvals as virgin Luminy PLA, but are partially made from post-industrial and post-consumer PLA waste. Total Corbion PLA is already receiving and depolymerizing reprocessed PLA waste, which is then purified and polymerized back into commercially available Luminy rPLA. The commercial availability of rPLA…
Well, it’s here! The Book 2021 is out now and includes a collection of rankings, lists and directories by Plastics News.
The plastics industry, environmental groups and states are presenting EPA with many different ideas on how to regulate chemical recycling.
While some US plastics manufacturers are optimistic about continued reshoring, the global industry picture understandably remains a moving target given regional tensions, potential responses to the Omicron variant, and other factors. With year-to-date data ending in September showing a $1.4 billion US plastics industry trade deficit, “it is likely that the US will have another year of a trade deficit in plastics, albeit less than last year,” wrote Perc Pineda,…
Solvay and Avio SpA have signed a long-term agreement for the supply of composite and adhesive materials for use across a range of projects including the Vega space program, the European Space Agency’s satellite launch vehicles designed to send payloads into low Earth orbit. Solvay will supply Avio with ablative material, RTM resins, and adhesives. Solvay has a strong legacy in the space market and has long been a leader…
Medical micromolder Plastic Design Corp. (PDC) has a new private equity owner, Vance Street Capital LLC.
Edgewater Capital Partners has acquired Precision Fluorocarbon LLC and added it to the polymer components business it recently bought from EnPro Industries Inc.
Pipeline Packaging, a distributor of rigid industrial containers based in Glenwillow, Ohio, has acquired MidStates Container Co.
Nearly 14 years after two Austrian machinery companies combined forces, Wittmann Group is dropping the Battenfeld brand name from its injection molding machinery.