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California Governor Gavin Newsom announced today that he is not signing Assembly Bill 2784, which would have established minimum recycled content in thermoform plastic containers and mandated CalRecycle to collect fees from producers whose products did not meet those requirements. Noting that he strongly supports California’s transition to a circular economy, Newsom wrote in his statement that AB 2784 imposed “confusing requirements” in conflict with some provisions of SB 54,…

Photo Credit: Herrmann Ultrasonics and VDMA Germany’s mechanical engineering industry association VDMA, as part of a series of interviews leading up to the K 2022 trade show in Dusseldorf  next month, recently interviewed Jochen Ochs, head of application technology for plastics at Herrmann  Ultraschalltechnik GmbH (Herrmann Ultrasonics U.S. office in Bartlett, Ill.). The topic: can recyclates be welded ultrasonically? Take a look at Ochs responses on the work they’ve done…

Extrusion expertise will be in plentiful supply when K 2022 kicks off Oct. 19 in Düsseldorf, Germany. From bio-based wine corks to a full production line for recycling PET, industry-leading extrusion specialists, including Coperion, Leistritz, MEAF, Sikora, and Useon, will demonstrate a range of innovations. The show runs through Oct. 26 at Messe Düsseldorf.

Custom and specialty extruder Pexco LLC announced the acquisition of injection molder Performance Plastics Ltd. on Sept. 15. Founded in 1982 in Cincinnati, OH, Performance Plastics is a precision injection molder of high-performance, tight-tolerance components for demanding applications within the aerospace, defense, medical, life science, and precision industrial sectors. In addition to its headquarters in Atlanta, Pexco operates seven manufacturing plants in the United States and one in Mexico serving…

Inteplast’s AmTopp Division is ramping up its stretch film production and workforce in Indiana, with two extrusion lines projected to churn out about five million pounds of product monthly. Production on the first stretch film line and pre-stretch line at the Remington, IN, facility is estimated to yield about two million pounds of product until the second line begins production in midmonth. Overall, the Remington plant is expected to produce…