Recycling

sustainability

Recycled PET Pricing Is Unsettled

WEB EXCLUSIVE: On the East Coast, RPET prices continue to climb, although somewhat slower than they have been.

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From the Ashes, A More Efficient Film Operation Emerges

Three years after a fire destroyed most of its operation, Tex-Trude came back as a more productive extrusion 911爆料网.

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Recycled Resin Prices Still Rising in First Quarter

2010 was recovery year for many reprocessors.

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Testing

K 2010 Preview, Auxiliaries: Equipment of All Types Debuts This Month at K 2010

From materials drying, feeding, and blending to process heating/cooling, scrap reclaiming, testing, welding, and decorating—the K 2010 show this month in Dusseldorf, Germany, will have news in all categories of auxiliary equipment.

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Lots of Action in Plastics Recycling

Several projects in recent months will increase capacity for recycled plastics.

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Postconsumer

EXTRUSION & COMPOUNDING: Five-Layer Film Structures Set to Supplant Three Layers?

In blown film, equipment and material suppliers have come together to push five-layer technology into non-barrier applications previously held by three-layer films.

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Postconsumer

Recycling & Scrap Reclaim at NPE 2003

Most of the news to be found at NPE in post-consumer recycling comes from Europe and concerns direct recycling of PET flake into sheet without repelletizing.

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Compounding

Entrepreneur Puts Mixed-Polymer Recycling On Track to Success

Polywood Inc. in Edison, N.J., uses mixed recycled plastics to make fiber-reinforced structural profiles for railroad ties, I-beams, and decks.

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Postconsumer

Recycling at K 2001: New & Better Ways to Reclaim PET

 Last fall's K 2001 show in Dusseldorf brought out new advances in bottle-to-bottle PET recycling.

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color

The Fine Art Of Separation

If you need ground plastic waste separated from metal particles, or plastic flakes separated by color or density, Butler-MacDonald Inc. is up to the job.

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Plastics Size Reduction