sustainability
Additives News at K 2013
More economical, higher performing, sustainable, and more finely tailored to specific applications—those features summarize the key advantages claimed for new additives showcased at K 2013.
Read MoreFrom whence it came—group promotes plastics-to-oil tech
Can plastics-to-oil technology supply an answer to plastics lingering end-of-life issues?
Read MoreRecycled Resin Market Expected to Be Strong in 2014
RPET prices are expected to rise this year. Recyclers expect a strong year for R-HDPE, too.
Read MoreK 2013: More Efficient, Flexible & User-Friendly Auxiliaries
It’s hard to generalize about auxiliary equipment, but a few trends stood out at K, including: greater energy efficiency, ease of maintenance and cleaning, controls that provide more real-time and historical process information and greater ease of use.
Read MoreSPI and ACC partner on rigid plastics packaging, thermoforming
Can polyethylene terephthalate (PET) thermoforms enjoy the same recycling rates as their bottle brethren? Increasing thermoformed packaging reclaim, and that of other rigid plastics, will likely just be one goal of a new collaboration between SPI and ACC.
Read MoreAuxiliary Equipment Run by Solar Energy at India's Plastics Show
Sustainable energy will be a key theme at next week’s Plastivision India 2013 (Dec. 12-16), the second largest plastics show in India held every three years in Mumbai.
Read MorePS Recycling Project Launched in Montreal
The Canadian Plastics Industry Association (CPIA), along with the city of Montreal and other partners, is embarking on a polystyrene recycling project that it hopes will be a model for future endeavors of this type.
Read MoreRPET Prices Stable
Recycled PET prices are perhaps a penny above where they were in June and seem to be going nowhere.
Read MoreReclaim System Pays Off for Foam Film Processor
A recent move to reclaim in-house production scrap paid off in six months for one processor of foamed film.
Read More‘ECO-ECONOMICS ’: Harbec Plastics Proves It Pays to Be ‘Green’
Bechtold has spent 15 years in an ongoing quest to prove that manufacturing in a sustainable manner is not opposed to profitability. On the contrary, he says his experience shows that sustainability is an economic opportunity that manufacturers can鈥檛 afford to miss.
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