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Collab Composite, a collaboration between Arctic Business and Piteå Science Park, was launched in Sweden in April 2023 with the aim of connecting international industry with innovative startups in the field of fiber composites. The collaboration is starting to bear fruit with the announcement that two leading companies have joined as partners in the project. The first industrial partners for Collab Composite are Saab and Hitachi Energy. Both are currently…

Toray Industries’ French subsidiary, Toray Carbon Fibers Europe S.A., has obtained ISCC Plus certification for its Lacq and Abidos production plants in southwest France. This certification allows Toray Carbon Fibers Europe to allocate and use biomass or recycled materials through the mass balance approach to produce and supply carbon fiber. Thus, Toray Carbon Fibers Europe now has the ability to reduce the life cycle inventory (LCI) of its carbon fiber,…

As we prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving and go on a food binge (followed by a shopping binge on Friday), PlasticsToday hopes that the gathering of the tribes around your table remains a peaceful, civilized affair. If we can get past the polarization for a minute, it’s undeniable that we have much to be thankful for and that we all have much more in common than what divides us, as someone…

The resin markets maintained their slower pace leading into the extended Thanksgiving holiday week. The steady flow of buyer inquiries seen earlier in the month subsided, and most grades of Prime polyethylene (PE) peeled off as much as a penny, as did polypropylene (PP), which was helped by easing PGP monomer costs, reports the PlasticsExchange in its Market Update. Exports account for almost half of all PE sales Upward momentum has…

The industry’s first acrylic rear lens, used on the 1948 General Motors Co. Cadillac Series 60, 61, and 62 models, has been named the 2023 Hall of Fame winner by the Automotive Division of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE). The acrylic, made possible with the invention of a polymer called polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) by Dr. Otto Röhm in 1932, was a game changer, replacing ground glass and enabling a…

It’s been a very busy year for injection molder and contract manufacturer MGS. It acquired Technolution, a Danish medtech product development firm, in June and followed that up with the purchase of moldmaker Winther Mould Technology, also based in Denmark, in October. Back home at its Germantown, WI, headquarters, MGS broke ground on a 120,000-square-foot Innovation Center in September. These acquisitions — supplementing the purchase of European toolmaker Formteknik in 2021 —…

The headline of this article is taken verbatim from a Nov. 15 online piece in The Atlantic. That article briefly discusses both plastic waste — nets, bags, fishing lines, and so forth — and microplastics in the ocean, and how they are affecting sea turtles. All the impacts discussed are negative: Plastics can cause death in many ways or serious injuries, and sea turtles (just like humans) are consuming microplastics daily with unknown…

The headline of this article is taken verbatim from a Nov. 15 online piece in The Atlantic. That article briefly discusses both plastic waste — nets, bags, fishing lines, and so forth — and microplastics in the ocean, and how they are affecting sea turtles. All the impacts discussed are negative: Plastics can cause death in many ways or serious injuries, and sea turtles (just like humans) are consuming microplastics daily with unknown…