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The plastic packaging producer Kobusch is ready to conclude its planned expansion in the field of rPET with the installation of a new inline sheet facility at Stanley (United Kingdom). A Vacurema recycling plant supplied by Erema is the central element of the...

Today plastic packaging design threatens new EU recycling targets. Careless design often leads to incomplete emptying of a package and what about different combinations of polymers/materials which are incompatible for an efficient recycling process? The new challenge should be that recyclability...

The new high-performance system developed and patented by Tecnodinamica for the generation of dry vacuum in EPS vertical block moulding machines does not need any water or other media in order to cool down the condensation tank and the vacuum pump. The liquid ring pumps...

The headquarters of Tria America in Charlotte (North Carolina), the US branch of the Italian company Tria, have been recently enlarged with a new test facility. The North American customers of the company can now send their materials to be subjected to trials or come directly to the new structure...

Italian PET producer, Mossi & Ghisolfi group, has recently announced the signing of a licensee agreement with Alpek for IntegRex PTA technology. The technology will be used in the construction of Mossi & Ghisolfi's previously announced 1,200,000 tonnes/year PTA plant at Corpus Christi...

The world market for composites reached a value in the neighbourhood of 82 billion euro in 2012 with an average annual growth rate of 6%. These are just two of the estimates put forward by the organizer of the specialized exhibition-convention...

The twenty-seventh edition of Chinaplas is scheduled this May 20-23 in the Guangzhou fairgrounds. The annual tradeshow, an itinerant event alternating between Guangzhou and Shanghai, represents Asia's preeminent event for the plastics market. Over 50 Italian companies will take part within the...

Corotating twin screw extruders customised and configured according to the individual processor's needs are now delivered by Maris on the basis both of a proprietary know-how acquired during its fifty-year activity and the in-house designing and manufacturing of each single mechanical item. An...

On the occasion of the Global Beverage Sustainability Awards, held in Warsaw on April 16 during InnoBev 2013, the Italian designer of PET beverage packaging PET Engineering was awarded with the "Best light-weighting" prize for its patented solution "Swerve Neck"...

A leading Korean producer of polyester fibres has placed an order with Amut for the supply of a complete plant for the production of 3-layer PET sheet. The emerging markets today require systems characterised by a high level of technology and automation, flexibility and the capacity to produce...

Ryng is a new device developed by Piovan for measuring the real output rate of process machinery. Traditional systems for feeding plastic material to machines use a loading container placed above the storage hopper. The material is transferred from the container to the hopper and then from the...

The Research team at University of California (Davis, United States) succeeded in producing raw materials needed to create fuels and plastics, by performing biological reactions in blue-green algae (cyanobacteria). The successful outcome of this research assumes significance especially...

When the Airbus A350 XWB takes to the skies for the first time in a few months it will be a momentous achievement both for Airbus and Hexcel, the composite materials producer that, in 2008, obtained the contract to supply carbon fibre prepregs for all the A350 XWB composite primary structures...

The new HL 350/D dual station fully electric continuous extrusion blow moulding machine has been developed by Meccanoplastica to produce containers with a capacity of up to 3 litres. This model has a clamping force of up to 6 tons and is available with horizontal motion of the mould carriage...

High-performance plastic sheets in polycarbonate from Bayer MaterialScience have been chosen for an agricultural reconstruction project in the disaster area of northeast Japan, hit two years ago by a devastating earthquake and tsunami. The material is used in a new greenhouse of a local...

In order to meet the increasing market demand for high performance bio-based engineering plastics, the German film producer, MF Folien introduced a new polyamide film, which is based on DSM’s bio-based EcoPaXX polyamide 410. In 2011, the company was...

The infamous Pacific Trash Vortex (the vast accumulation of waste, largely plastic waste, floating in the Pacific, which we have already talked about on this website) is back in the headlines thanks to an idea by...

One aspect of the Indian 2013-2014 budget law is the inclusion of a series of provisions designed to improve and expand the scope of the country’s recycling system through the allocation of special funds. At present, around 2 million tons of...

On April 11, Versalis and Genomatica signed an agreement to establish a joint venture for the production of butadiene from renewable non-food sources. The new company will be the sole owner of the technology in Europe, Asia and Africa, while...

The association representing Brazil’s producers of plastic products (Abiplast) has outlined the results recorded by the sector in 2012, and also issued some forecasts for 2013. Last year was characterised, overall, by a worsening of the trade balance, with exports...