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Lego ditches plans to make bricks from recycled PET
Iranpolymer/Baspar In a PR blow to the plastic recycling industry, Lego has abandoned its plans to switch to recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) for its bricks, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. In 2021, the world’s largest toymaker announced it was testing…
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Pacur selects Eastman’s Eastar Renew for medical device packaging
Iranpolymer/Baspar Wisconsin-based custom sheet extruder Pacur will use Eastman’s Eastar Renew 6763 to produce rigid, thermoformed, sterile barrier medical device packaging, the company has announced. The materials in the Eastman Renew polymer portfolio are manufactured with ISCC certified circular content…
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KraussMaffei and partners to bring injection moulded bike to Fakuma 2023
Iranpolymer/Baspar The new Lion Bike by Marcel Kittel and Tony Martin, both former professional cyclists have produced a bike series that makes kids even more visible on their bikes and it claims that ensures more sustainability in manufacturing. The frame…
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The 17th IranPlast International Exhibition of Plastics, Rubber, Machinery and Equipment
Iranpolymer/Baspar The 17th IranPlast International Exhibition IranPlast International Exhibition seeks to provide a basis for the prosperity of the domestic plastic industry market and facilitate the global marketing process and the presence of this part of the country’s industry in…
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Italian Packaging Company Will Use Recycled PET From Food Trays to Produce New Film
Iranpolymer/Baspar AMB Spa, a packaging producer based in Italy, will use PET flakes from Indoraa’s PET tray recycling operations in its food-grade packaging film. The partnership between AMB and Indorama is aimed at diverting 150 million post-consumer trays from landfill or…
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Unfil aims to tackle problem of plastic waste with help from Lindner
Iranpolymer/Baspar Lindner, a manufacturer of high-performance synthetic and recycled fibres, has decided to tackle the problem of waste plastics. They collect used plastics, including PET bottles, especially near the coasts of developing countries and regions, ensuring that plastics do not…
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Borealis, Borouge unveil automotive products made from post-consumer recycled PP
Iranpolymer/Baspar UAE-based Borouge, a joint venture between Borealis and the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), announced it has launched new polypropylene (PP) products for the automotive industry made from up to 70% post-consumer recycled (PCR) materials. The first solution contains 50%…
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New HDPE grade designed for recyclability
Iranpolymer/Baspar ExxonMobil has developed a new HDPE grade specifically designed with machine direction oriented (MDO) PE film applications in mind. ExxonMobil HD7165L has been ‘designed for recyclability’ said the company, to help converters create recyclable mono-material laminates suitable for packaging…
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UK government collects GBP 276 million in plastic packaging tax in scheme’s first year
Iranpolymer/Baspar The United Kingdom’s HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) announced this Thursday that it collected GBP 276 million (€323 million) in plastic packaging tax (PPT) receipts in the financial year 2022 to 2023. The PPT was introduced on April 1,…
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New partnership for recycling PE film
Iranpolymer/Baspar Fastenal, a U.S.-based industry supplier, and wood-alternative decking company Trex have announced a partnership that will see Trex repurposing Fastenal’s discarded polyethylene (PE) stretch film. PE film, widely used in logistics, stabilises products on pallets to make them safe…
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The role of biodegradable materials in reducing medical plastics waste
Iranpolymer/Baspar In recent years, the growing concerns over environmental sustainability have prompted a critical examination of the impact of plastic waste on our planet. Nicolle Portilla, marketing manager, ZeroWaste Partnerships and RTS, explores the importance of materials’ roles in reducing medical…
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German Retailer’s Packaging Incorporates Digital Watermarking
Iranpolymer/ Baspar Netto Marken-Discount, a German retailer with 4,300 stores, announced its Netto brand products are now Digimarc recycle-ready. Netto food and beverage products have Digimarc watermarks, imperceptible to humans but machine-readable, incorporated into the packaging. The product digitization facilities product scanning…
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LyondellBasell Acquires Producer of Recycled Compounds
Iranpolymer/ Baspar Netherlands-based LyondellBasell announced the completion of its acquisition of the Mepol Group, a manufacturer of recycled technical compounds located in Italy and Poland. The Mepol Group and its subsidiaries will become part of the Advanced Polymer Solutions business unit of LyondellBasell.…
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Chemical recycling makes sense whenever mechanical recycling falls short
Iranpolymer/ Baspar In its ‘Let’s talk about Chemical Recycling” series, the Plastics and Rubber Machinery division of the German VDMA association talks to experts and stakeholders active in the chemical recycling space. Here, Michael Ludden, managing director of Sutco Recycling GmbH stresses…
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ADBioplastics develops industrially compostable single-use packaging for olive oil
Iranpolymer/ Baspar The Spain-based additives and bioplastics manufacturer has created a bioplastic called PLA-Premium which it claims offers improved processability, yet, like regular PLA, is 100% compostable under industrial conditions. TÜV Austria has certified the single-use product to disintegrate within…
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Conti starts volume production of its ‘most sustainable ever’ tire
Iranpolymer/ Baspar Hanover, Germany – Continental has started production of the UltraContact NXT – its “most sustainable series tire to date” – at its manufacturing site in Lousado, Portugal. With up to 65% renewable, recycled and mass balance certified materials,…
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The niche called bioplastics is growing
Iranpolymer/ Baspar Plastic contributes considerably to global greenhouse gas emissions. In 2022, plastics produced 1.9 billion tons of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (3.5% of total global emissions), with 90% of this emission coming from plastic production, conversion from fossil fuels,…
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ENGEL to exhibit at Fakuma 2023
Iranpolymer/ Baspar Mould temperature control has a significant impact on product quality and the energy efficiency of the injection moulding process. To take even greater advantage of the resulting potential for process optimisation, ENGEL says it is making it easy…
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Reflection: Green buildings are a work in progress
Iranpolymer/ Baspar If there’s one sector that has needed to pull up its socks when it came to sustainability, it was the building construction industry. The World Green Building Council has estimated that the energy required to construct and operate…
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How Recycled Plastic is Revolutionizing the Internet Hardware Industry
Iranpolymer/ Baspar The global tech industry is witnessing a revolutionary shift in its manufacturing processes as it embraces sustainability. One of the most significant changes is the incorporation of recycled plastic into the production of internet hardware. This trend is…
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