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Additives

Circular Packaging Based on Perstorp’s Akestra 100 and 110 Officially Endorsed in Europe

Perstorp’s next-generation co-polyester enhance thermoformed recycled PET products by adding heat resistance capabilities and more.

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NOVA Chemicals appoints Roger Kearns as President and CEO

Kearns to accelerate implementation of NOVA’s vision to become North America’s leading sustainable PE producer.

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iMFLUX Goes Royalty-Free and Transitions to Mainly R&D Role

By July, P&G will close the iMFLUX site and move to royalty-free licensing through injection-machine vendors and third-party retrofitters. An iMFLUX R&D team will continue to develop the technology.

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Nexa3D Acquires Addifab

The maker of polymer 3D printers and the creator of technology for injection-molding-ready printed tooling are fully joined after announcing a collaboration last year.

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Recycling

Indorama and Evertis Collaboration Aims for PET Film From Recycled Trays

Indorama and Evertis announced they will collaborate to make food packaging film from recycled PET trays.

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Packaging

Trexel & W. Müller Team Up on Multilayer Foam Blow Molding

MuCell technology gains new momentum in blow molded packaging through this partnership of a leader in physical foaming with supercritical gases and a leader in coex blow molding hardware and controls.

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Medical

Plastics Machinery Shipments Rose in 2022’s Final Quarter

The Plastics Industry Association’s (PLASTICS) Committee on Equipment Statistics (CES) reported that injection molding and extrusion machinery shipments totaled $432.7 million in Q4.

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Polykemi AB Expands into Mexico

The Swedish plastics compounder has opened new subsidiary Polykemi Mexico in Mexico City.

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Orbetron, Technovel Form Strategic Partnership

Feeding specialist and extrusion builder align to market and sell each other’s offerings.  

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Lanxess and DSM Engineering Materials Venture Launched as ‘Envalior’

This new global engineering materials contender combines Lanxess’ high-performance materials 911爆料网 with DSM’s engineering materials 911爆料网.

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