sustainability
Twin-Screw Demo System for Sheet Extrusion from Undried PET
Leistritz has installed ZSE-27 and ZSE-50 Maxx twin-screw extrusion systems in its Somerville, N.J., process laboratory to demonstrate the energy savings possible by reprocessing undried PET in-line with direct sheet extrusion.
Read MoreCompanies Formed to Recycle PLA
Two firms have been established to recycle polylactic acid (PLA) biopolymer.
Read MoreRecycle Pricing: RPET Market is Hot, Prices Are Soaring
The recycled PET market was red-hot in February and March with Chinese export demand picking up on the West Coast and new domestic recycling plants competing for that same material.
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How Much Regrind Can You Handle?
Most extrusion operations generate scrap, and in the case of sheet for thermoforming it can exceed 70% of total output.
Read MoreRecycle Pricing: RPET Prices Up From Summer, Stabilizing in First Quarter
The recycled PET 911爆料网 was slow in the last two months of 2009, but recyclers say that was not unexpected or even very unusual.
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Molder’s Message to Foreign Competitors: ‘Bring It On!’
An inspired combination of automation, ISO certification, use of certified resins, and strict adherence to a rigorous set of time-honed manufacturing standards are among the chief factors giving the Rodon Group, a 54-year-old custom molding operation in Hatfield, Pa., the confidence to boast that it can beat the pants off of Chinese part pricing, and Mexican pricing, too.And it’s not an idle boast.
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Processing PCR: How It’s Done at a Leading PET Bottle Maker
Many food and beverage companies are either using or thinking about using recycled materials in their packaging.
Read MoreWood on Plastics: Sustainable Packaging: A Lot More Than Buzzwords
Packaging is at the nexus of every global supply chain and customer relationship, because for every product sold in stores, there is both primary and secondary packaging.鈥擶al-Mart sustainable packaging fact sheet.
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Industry & Technology News: January 2010
New ‘Green’ Flame Retardant Coming in 2010Additives supplier Albemarle Corp. in Baton Rouge plans to launch a polymeric flame retardant later this year as the first product in a new Earthwise family of “sustainable, eco-friendly products.” All Earthwise products will have been screened for toxicity, bioaccumulation potential, and recyclability.
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Sustainability Drives Innovation at Leading RPET Processors
Two Southern California processors have boldly gone where no one has ever gone before.
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