sustainability
New Product Compounds Incorporate Post Consumer Recycled Content
LyondellBasell announced the addition of eight new grades to CirculenRecover, its portfolio of mechanically recycled PP and PE.
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Neste Announces Agreement to Produce Bottles Using Renewable & Recycled Material
Neste’s RE, incorporating recycled and renewable material, will be used in making PET bottles.
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How to Extrusion Blow Mold PHA/PLA Blends
You need to pay attention to the inherent characteristics of biopolymers PHA/PLA materials when setting process parameters to realize better and more consistent outcomes.
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New HDPE Grade for Mono-Material Machine Direction Oriented Films
Exxon introduced HD7165L for MDO film applications designed for recyclability.
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Foam-Core Multilayer Blow Molding: How It’s Done
Learn here how to take advantage of new lightweighting and recycle utilization opportunities in consumer packaging, thanks to a collaboration of leaders in microcellular foaming and multilayer head design.
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Polyplastics Group Announces Recycling Initiative to Include Recompounding Service
Company will offer mechanically recycled engineering plastics from post industrial materials.
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Sutco Managing Director Speaks on Policy Needs for Ensuring Recycling Material Flows Prioritize Sustainability
In a VDMA interview, Michael Ludden discussed the future of recycling and the interactions between chemical and mechanical.
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Flexible-Film Processor Optimizes All-PE Food Packaging
Tobe Packaging’s breakthrough was to create its Ecolefin PE multilayer film that could be applied with a specialized barrier coating.
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Nova Chemicals Announces Mechanical PE Recycling Facility
Indiana site expected to process over 100 million pounds of PE annually.
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Production Milestone Achieved for Partially Biobased PET
Origin said its partially biobased PET was injection molded into preforms by Husky, using that company’s established PET processing technology, and then stretch blowmolded into bottles.
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