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PureCycle Begins Making Commercial Shipments of Postindustrial PP
Iranpolymer/Baspar Purecycle began shipping recycled postindustrial PP to Milliken and Formerra. Purecycle uses a recycling process that uses solvent but leaves polymer molecules intact, creating a recycled resin free of additives and colorants. The shipment to Formerra marked the first recycled PP resin commercial shipment…
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Recycling technology for plastic film wins IOM3 Circular Economy Award
Baspar/Iranpolymer A pioneering recycling technology which promises the ability to recycle post-consumer plastic film has been recognised for its potential to increase the circularity of food packaging. Plastic recycling consultancy Nextek has been awarded the IOM3’s Circular Economy Award for COtooCLEAN,…
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Eco-products brings compostable packaging to the basketball court
Iranpolymer/Baspar Eco-products, a brand of US-based packaging and food services company Novolex, is partnering with the Portland Trail Blazers, a professional basketball team, as its official zero waste partner. The company will provide its compostable packaging, including plates, bowls, trays,…
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Berry launches lightweight tube closure solution
Iranpolymer/Baspar Adding to Berry’s range of tube closures, the new Slimline range delivers greenhouse gas savings compared to traditional caps through a new lightweight and low-profile design. As one of the lightest solutions currently available on the market, the closures…
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Digital add-on from KraussMaffei enables operation with minimal prior knowledge
Iranpolymer/Baspar While nothing can compare with the in-depth knowledge of polymer processing parameters that comes with a skilled process engineer, a widespread issue of skills shortages means that technology may have to become more accessible to a diverse workforce. KraussMaffei…
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AIMPLAS turns poultry feather waste into sustainable foams
Iranpolymer/Baspar AIMPLAS, the Plastics Technology Centre, is working on the development of new foams made with poultry feathers for sustainable hydroponic crop systems within the framework of UNLOCK, an initiative funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. Fourteen partners from seven European countries are working on this project, which is coordinated by…
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Safety Knives Will Use Pre-Consumer Recycled Nylon
Iranpolymer/Baspar Domo Chemicals announced that Martor will be using its recycled polyamide (PA)-based materials for its line of Eco safety knives. Domo’s Technyl 4Earth materials are based on recycled PA6 and available with different glass fiber percentages. Domo collects and recycles spinning plastic scrap…
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Alpla, Tönissteiner launch reusable bottle made from 100% rPET
Iranpolymer/Baspar Packaging specialist Alpla has collaborated with Privatbrunnen Tönissteiner, a mineral water company based in Germany, on the development of a reusable PET bottle made entirely of recycled material. The new bottle, of which the development was worked on by the…
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Transfer Film Take Back Program Yields Recycled Resin for Injection Molding
Iranpolymer/Baspar Leonhard Kurz will be exhibiting its Recopound resin in October at the Fakuma trade fair in Friedrichshafen, Germany. Recopound is a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) resin, recycled from postindustrial material. Kurz offers a return and recycling program that reprocesses used PET carrier film…
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Wittmann Battenfeld to present its new EcoPower B8X at Fakuma 2023
Iranpolymer/Baspar WITTMANN BATTENFELD will present its new EcoPower B8X to trade visitors at Fakuma 2023 from October 17 to October 21 at its booth 1204 in hall B1. In comparison to its predecessor, the company claims that this new machine stands…
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Chase Plastics works on project to recycle ocean LDPE plastic
Iranpolymer/Baspar Chase Plastics is partnering with ancillary equipment manufacturer Summit Systems and Ocean Integrity to recycle ocean-recovered Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE). Ocean Integrity is a global enterprise working on recovering ocean plastics. Once recycled, the resultant rPE will be available…
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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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