Fakuma will welcome nearly 1,500 exhibitors presenting innovations in plastics processing equipment, materials, and services to Friedrichshafen, Germany, from Oct. 17 to 21. In this slide show, we highlight some of the new injection molding products making their debut at this year’s event. They all share a promise to bring productivity improvements to the injection molding process, but they do so in unique ways. Seeing is believing, as they say,…
After being the first in India to launch a 1-liter bottle made of 100% recycled PET (rPET) for Kinley brand water, Coca-Cola India announced October 4 it is taking another meaningful step toward a circular economy with the launch of Coca-Cola in 250- and 750-mL rPET bottles. These rPET bottles are being manufactured by Coca-Cola bottling partners Moon Beverages Ltd. and SLMG Beverages Ltd. Two days later during the opening ceremony…
September brought higher contract prices to both the US polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) markets, driven primarily by stronger domestic sales and higher feedstock costs. Sales data through August showed both domestic and overall PP sales reaching their year-to-date highs on the month. Domestic PP sales in North America through the first eight months of 2023 are down 4.5% compared with the same time period of 2022. Meanwhile, domestic PE…
Polyolefins producer Braskem has unveiled a novel demonstrator part that combines Braskem’s polypropylene (PP) resin in combination with Rebar for Plastics reinforcing technology from WEAV3D Inc., an advanced manufacturing and materials startup. WEAV3D’s thermoplastic composite lattice technology is based on unidirectional, fiber-reinforced composite tapes and enhances the performance of PP for structural and automotive material applications. The WEAV3D lattice technology enables lightweight PP parts to replace metal materials such as…
Pharmaceuticals companies looking for more sustainable packaging materials have a new option in Diofan Ultra736, a polyvinylidene chloride (PVDC) coating with ultra-high water vapor barrier from Brussels-based Solvay. The coating’s robust barrier properties enable reduced coating thickness vs. competing mid- to high-barrier PVDC coatings, with no adverse effects on package performance. Reduced coating thickness, in turn, enables thinner, more sustainable films for blister-pack thermoforming. Films coated with the material feature…
The Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS) named Husky Technologies (Husky) winner of PLASTICS’ 2023 Innovation in Bioplastics Award. The October 4 announcement came as part of PLASTICS’ eighth annual, online #BioplasticsWeek awareness and education event. Husky won the award for its hot runner system, UltraMelt, which is engineered for the efficient and sustainable injection molding of bioresins aka biopolymers. Made in whole or in part from renewable biological resources, biopolymers present…
A massive explosion rocked a major petrochemical facility of Mexican national oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) in the Gulf state of Veracruz on September 20, killing at least three people, injuring dozens more, and pushing a cloud of chemicals into the sky. Pemex confirmed that three of its workers had died, and said another 136 were injured, of which 88 were still in the hospital. The firm said the explosion, which…
Absolute Haitian held an open house and luncheon September 28 for customers and industry members at its 116,000-square-foot applications center in Moncks Corner, SC, which opened in 2019. The event gave industry professionals the opportunity to view new technology, product introductions and more than 100 electric and servo-hydraulic stock machines and large-tonnage subassemblies ready for quick delivery. On display were three operating injection molding machine cells and a static display…
If you’re interested in an informative and fast read on the subject of flexible packaging, this is for you — an all-in-one location for a steady stream of curated news and developments in this dynamic market for the month of October. These include pouches, bags, films, and other types of flexible packaging sourced from supplier breakthroughs, brand launches, and other advances of interest. The content is selected from Tweets by stakeholders in the flexible packaging supply…
An industry as vast in depth and breadth as plastics produces opportunities and news just as vast. Who can know much less read even a fraction of it? That’s why we’ve collected the top-read articles of September from the dozens of articles posted the past month. What’s important for your counterparts across the plastics business is likely important for you to know, too. Here are the top 10 articles our…