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Influenced by her packaging editor husband, my wife has grown increasingly packaging savvy over the years. For example, she buys products with new or interesting packaging just for me. I had the same feeling as a kid when mom would bring home an unexpected treat. I also regularly solicit her feedback on packaging developments, which I’m expanding on now after purchasing two sharply contrasting packaging designs for pancake mixes. Birch…

Have you checked out Plastics Technology’s upcoming Extrusion 2022 Conference? It’s going to be held Dec. 6-8 in Charlotte, N.C. at the Omni Charlotte Hotel in the downtown section of the city. This two-and-a-half day event is packed with presentations from more than 60 technical experts covering a wide range of subject areas. The morning sessions on each day will include presentations on “general” extrusion topics. During each afternoon there…

Ascend Performance Materials announced today that it has purchased a majority stake in Circular Polymers, a recycler of post-consumer, high-performance polymers including polyamide 6 and 66, polypropylene, and polyester (PET) based in Lincoln, CA. Ascend said the deal provides it with a consistent supply of high-quality PCR materials for its ReDefyne sustainable polyamides, launched at K 2022 in Düsseldorf, Germany, last month. Circular Polymers reclaims and processes post-consumer carpet using…

Photo Credit: LanzaTech Chicago-based LanzaTech, an innovative Carbon Capture and Transformation (“CCT”) company that transforms waste carbon into materials such as sustainable fuels, fabrics, packaging, and other products recently announced it has successfully engineered specialized biocatalysts to directly produce ethylene from CO2 in a continuous process. LanzaTech has previously produced ethylene via the indirect ethanol pathway, taking ethanol produced from carbon emissions and then converting this ethanol to ethylene. However,…

PureCycle Technologies has teamed up with the League of Women Voters (LWV) in Florida to recycle polypropylene (PP) election signs after the midterm election on Nov. 8, 2022. Starting the day after the election, PureCycle and the LWV will start collecting the signs. By the end of the month, they expect to recycle more than 15,000 signs, diverting thousands of pounds of plastic waste from the state’s landfills, waterways, and…