PSC boosts capabilities, scale with acquisition of Thermoplastics Services
TSI reprocesses scrap resins into custom compounds that are sold into industrial, commercial and municipal applications, officials with PSC in Pasadena, Texas.
Toray, Chemosvit Partner to Advance Sustainability in Flexible Packaging
Materials company Toray and European flexible packaging group Chemosvit this week showed a sample of a mono-material pouch with barrier properties designed with the circular economy in mind. It illustrates the potential of the partners’ technology, which combines a novel flexible film construction with a waterless electron beam (EB) offset printing process that results in reduced CO2 emissions compared with conventional techniques. Offset printing is not as widely used with…
Braskem Invests in Nexus Circular to Increase Advanced Recycling Efforts
Braskem has invested in Nexus, a provider of advanced recycling that converts landfill-bound plastics into circular feedstocks used in the production of sustainable virgin plastics. Using a proprietary advanced recycling technology, Nexus converts a range of hard-to-recycle plastics especially landfill bound plastic films into its circular feedstocks which can then be converted back into virgin plastic. In a 2021 Q&A with Plastics Technology, Nexus founder and CEO Jeff Gold explained the company’s main technology…
PTXPO Spotlight: Movacolor
[embedded content] Marc Aandeweg, CEO of Movacolor, talks with Plastics Technology leading up to the Plastics Technology Expo (PTXPO) March 29-31st. Marc discussed current business trends and their new MCContinuous blender they will be showcasing in their booth (631) in the injection & blow molding pavilion. Learn more about Movacolor and register for PTXPO here. RELATED CONTENT
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Exchangeable Vehicle Battery System Housed in PP Enclosure
German battery expert Ansmann AG has joined forces with materials supplier Borealis to develop an exchangeable battery housed in a polypropylene (PP) enclosure. The hot-swappable GreenPack battery will be deployable in e-fleets for car sharing and delivery services as well as in commercial transport. It can also be used to power lawn mowers, snow blowers, and weed trimmers. The aim of the collaboration is to design a next-generation lithium-ion battery…
Corona’s ‘Plastic Fishing Tournament’ goes global
An environmental initiative from We Believers rolls out to countries including China, Brazil and Israel to pay fishermen to collect plastic trash from oceans.
Resin Report: Strong Buying Buoyed by Seasonal Demand Rather than Fear
It was a busy week at the PlasticsExchange trading desk from the get-go, with a steady flow of buy orders well distributed between processors and resellers, said the Chicago-based resin clearinghouse in its Market Update. The buying seemed to be driven more by normal seasonal demand rather than the fear buying observed earlier in the month. However, spot resin availability remained constrained. Aside from easy dealings supplied from its market-making…
Can Coinjection Help Solve the Coming Recycled Content Conundrum?
It’s just one example of the limits many brandowners will soon be imposing on themselves to boost the sustainability of their products, but the U.S. Plastics Pact’s roadmap is a useful guide to where key plastics markets like packaging could be headed. A consortium led by The Recycling Partnership and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) as part of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s global Plastics Pact Network, the Pact sets four main…
Graham Packaging touts improved sustainability statistics
The Pennsylvania-based packaging maker, with dozens of manufacturing facilities around the world, said more than 90 percent of its production is now recycable.