Packaging

Packaging

Global Bioplastics Market to Grow by Over 15%

The European Bioplastics’ 2019 data update confirm dynamic growth for the bioplastics industry.

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Blow Molding: Digital Inkjet Printing onto PET Bottles

Printing directly on bottles can substitute for labels and in some cases can take place inside the blow molder.

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Commodity Resins

New Plastic Technologies & Alternative Bioplastics Augment Flexible Plastic Packaging Growth

Frost & Sullivan study sees promising market growth opportunities within a four-year period.

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Packaging

Milliken's PP Clarifier Receives Critical Guidance Recognition from the Association of Plastics Recyclers

Millad NX 8000 clarifying agent validated as compativle with plastic packaging recycling. 

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PVC

Volume Resin Prices Down-to-Flat Going into First Quarter of 2020

Prices of polyolefins, PS, PVC could bottom out; PET, nylon 6 could drop further while flat to modestly down trajectory projected for ABS, PC, and nylon 66. 

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Packaging

Packaging Converter Launches Film-Extrusion Business

Polymer Film & Bag Inc. will start with three-layer capacity of more than 20 million lb/yr, with additional expansion plans already firmed up.

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polystyrene

2019 Ends with Lower Prices for Commodity Resins

Global demand slowdown and oversupply end the year with a buyers’ market.

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Postindustrial

Henkel, BASF Collaborate on Chemical Recycling

Henkel is evaluating further opportunities for integrating chemically recycled plastic in its product packaging.

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Lower Prices for Five Volume Commodity Resins

Global demand slowdown and in some cases oversupply are ending the year with a buyers’ market. 

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Opaque White Bottle-to-Bottle Recycling Proven with 100% rPET

Swiss masterbatch producer Sukano and French PET bottle machinery builder Sidel collaborated on a project to confirm the bottle-to-bottle recyclability of opaque white light-barrier PET dairy bottles.

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