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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...

A press conference attended by a considerable number of sector journals was held on April 11 in Milan to relaunch Automata – a company belonging to the Cannon group which has been active in the automation sector for more than...

Founded in 1953, Cima Impianti celebrates its sixtieth year in business in 2013. An anniversary that will be marked at Autopromotec 2013, the international biennial exhibition of automotive equipment and aftermarket products being...

According to IMG, a manufacturer based in Capriano del Colle, near Brescia (Italy), who has been offering them for the injection moulding of elastomers, the electric presses of the REM range (an acronym which stands for Rubber Electric Machine) guarantee 30% more energy savings...

On April 17 and 18, 2013, the new hall at the Lingotto exhibition centre in Turin (Italy) hosts the seventh Affidabilità & Tecnologia fair, a specialist event devoted to innovation that presents technologies, solutions, tools and services. The two-day fair sees the participation of 200 exhibitors (up by...

The new line of Dy-Nax chillers from Eurochiller should be seen not just as products but as a design concept that, thanks to a range of features that increase its versatility, is able to adapt to a wide range of different application needs. These air-cooled single-block chillers are designed to be...

An innovative profile cutting unit and the energy saving are the strengths of a new extrusion line designed and built by TPV Compound for the production of PVC and wood-filled PVC profiles. The line is equipped with a twin screw conical extruder of the last generation which features a new system for...

The surface required to grow sufficient feedstock for today's bioplastic production is less than 0.006% of the global agricultural area of 5 billion hectares. Metaphorically speaking, this ratio correlates to the size of an average cherry tomato placed next to the Eiffel Tower. This is the key...

Tubby is his name. He's a Labrador retriever who retrieved over 25,000 plastic bottles in Wales. The method is simple: when he finds a bottle, he crushes it with his teeth and then - true retriever that he is - he takes it to his owner, Sandra Gilmore. It is an effective way to show even the most...