As K 2022 got underway, everyone was trying to determine how attendance would be impacted at the world’s biggest plastics trade show. But despite everything, Wittmann CEO Rainer Weingraber noted in an interview with Sustainable Plastics that “they are here.”
The Lucid Air reportedly is the world’s fastest-charging luxury electric car with a range of up to 530 miles on a single charge under ideal conditions. Materials supplier Sabic helped to make that happen, which is why the Lucid Air is on display in hall 6 on stand D42 at K 2022 in Düsseldorf, Germany. Sabic thermoplastics are present in more than 25 applications, including structural and battery components and interior…
Download the latest show daily here. Or you can view the flipbook version here. The Oct. 22 show daily features what could arguably be the “greenest” booth at K, the Röchling Industrial SE & Co. KG. The company is showing two sustainable product families for bioplastics and recycled plastics. The Booth itself features flora and fauna, complete with a rusty green automobile and a chimp statue. Elsewhere in the issue features U.S.-based…
PureCycle Technologies announced today at K 2022 that its longstanding partnership with Milliken has achieved a new milestone with the development of what it calls the first fully sustainable polypropylene (PP) concentrate on the market. “Typically, plastics contain 2 to 3% additives,” said PureCycle Technologies CEO Dustin Olson during a press conference at the trade show in Düsseldorf, Germany. “This product achieves full circularity, even with additives, thanks to the PureCycle…
Sustainable applications being touted by Sabic include light fixtures made from Lexan-brand polycarbonate and hygiene products made from recycled content, as well as the Microsoft mouse made with 20 percent ocean plastic.
It was a close call at the Solvay booth — C61 in hall 6 — at the K show this morning but in a majority decision, the VX4 electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft beat the Sarolea MANX7 superbike. Both transport modes make extensive use of carbon-fiber composites for structural components as well as specialty materials for batteries and e-motor parts. For example, the motorcycle’s rear suspension rocker arm…
Consumer concern over plastic waste has driven demand for recycled plastic upwards, while supply has struggled to keep pace. Improved collection infrastructure and changing behaviors can have immediate impact on the achievement of recycled content goals. In the long term, the development of new recycling technologies can contribute by expanding the breadth of collected recyclables that can be processed into useful material. Recently published research describes methods for using waste…
U.S.-based blow and injection mold maker Big 3 Precision Products comes to K 2022 with a more global footprint.
Following a months-long teaser campaign, KraussMaffei finally lifted the curtain on the “something” that it had to “add.” At 4:40 p.m. local time on Oct. 19, CEO Michael Ruf spoke briefly about what was behind the curtain at booth C 24 in hall 15 before pushing the red button to reveal two new additive manufacturing machines — the precisionPrint and powerPrint systems — representing the “fourth pillar” in the company’s product portfolio…
We finally know what a car made by an iPhone manufacturing company would look like. But it remains to be seen if the three models unveiled by Hon Hai Technology Group, better known as Foxconn, will make it to market.