The grades can be used for food packaging, food storage, kitchenware and personal care for single use or repeated use. Two of the grades can be used with fatty foods, while two others work best with non-fatty foods.
The University of Queensland (UQ) in Brisbane, Australia, has opened a $13-million center for training and applied research in the fields of bioplastics and biocomposites. Among its goals is conquering the problem of large-scale plastic pollution. Located at UQ’s School of Chemical Engineering, the Australian Research Council (ARC) Industrial Transformation Training Centre for Bioplastics and Biocomposites is funded by the Australian government’s Industrial Transformation Research Program (ITRP) for Training Centres…
As a Japanese materials company making a concerted effort to step up activities in Europe, Asahi Kasei will have a strong presence at K 2022 in Düsseldorf, Germany, where it opened a foam lab at its R&D Center in April of this year. Besides a plethora of materials solutions focused on mobility, the company will also present its newest concept car, the AKXY2 for the first time in Europe. Image…
Manufacturing Execution Systems, abbreviated MES, may not be the sort of topic that excites everyone, but there are lots of managers and supervisors and engineers in plastics operations that have grown to appreciate the value of real-time manufacturing data, available anywhere, anytime, to anyone who needs it. As we have reported in recent articles, real-time manufacturing visibility is making operations more efficient, productive and profitable. However, a number of these…
The acquisition, announced Aug. 24, is the second for Harrington Industrial Plastics in a month.
A new extended recycling method for deconstructing thin-layer composite packaging and remaking it into materials with near-virgin qualities will be on display by Germany’s Saperatec GmbH at K 2022 in Düsseldorf, Germany, on Oct. 19 to 26. Following its initial successes, Saperatec is building its first recycling plant for composite packaging made of plastic, aluminum, and paper at its site in Dessau in Saxony-Anhalt. The facility is expected to go…
Name any topic or category and odds are there’s a market report on it. In fact, there are far more plastics and related studies released through various outlets and media than PlasticsToday could possibly begin to bring to your attention…until now. That’s why we’re introducing Plastics by the Numbers, a growing slideshow of new market studies. Each report is presented in an easy-to read format. Containing useful information, these reports cover…
The company’s existing facility in Jeffersonville, Ind., previously only handled tooling-related work, but now makes parts like other company sites.
Sabic and its partner SK geo centric (SKGC) have announced their intent to expand capacity for polyolefin elastomers and plastomers (POEs/POPs) and metallocene low-linear-density (LLD) PE at their joint venture Sabic SK Nexlene Co. (SSNC). The new capacity, due to come on stream at Ulsan, South Korea, in the second quarter of 2024, targets applications in solar panel encapsulation, automotive, footwear, and flexible packaging. The largest market for POEs traditionally has…
If you have followed any of the debate about various recycling technologies, and in particular those that centered around the advanced recycling legislation proposed or passed in recent years, you may note that we don’t all have exactly the same definition in mind. There are two definitions of recycling (the verb) in our collective consciousness. One is exemplified by “to pass again through a series of changes” (Webster), i.e. literally…