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Arizona City Will Try Out 3D Printers That Recycle in Pilot Program
Iranpolymer/Baspar The City of Surprise, Arizona, will host a pilot program that will collect used plastic waste items and use them to print on-demand plastic commodity products using equipment from Automedi, a UK-based fabricator of 3D printing machines. The program will…
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Sweden’s Site Zero Sorts Plastic Packaging Waste Into 12 Fractions
Iranpolymer/Baspar Svensk Plastatervinning of Sweden celebrated the opening of Site Zero, a plastic sorting plant in Motala, Sweden. The plant features Tomra and Sutco equipment, and can sort plastic packaging waste into 12 fractions for recycling. Originally opened in 2019, the plant was built in collaboration…
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Putting an end to plastic separation anxiety
Iranpolymer/Baspar Bio-based plastics such as polylactic acid (PLA) were invented to help solve the plastic waste crisis, but they often end up making waste management more challenging. Because these materials look and feel so similar to conventional, petroleum-based plastics, many products…
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Positive Plastics goes beyond the surface with latest update
Iranpolymer/Baspar Friedrichshafen, Germany — The Positive Plastics team — the three material experts behind the Positiv Plastics initiative launched two years ago at Fakuma 2021 — returned with its third sample kit in 2023. For the first time, this year’s offering…
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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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Montachem International partners with seaweed- based resin maker Loliware
Iranpolymer/Baspar At the Plast international plastics show in Milan, plastic resin distributor Montachem International and materials science company Loliware debuted their seaweed-based resins today, an event marking Loliware’s entrance into Europe’s $3.5 billion bio-resin market. Loliware’s materials are the first…
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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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Ravago, Republic form post-consumer plastics JV
Iranpolymer/ Baspar In a major recycling deal, Republic Services Inc. and Ravago Group have formed Blue Polymers LLC, a joint venture that will build and operate plants to generate 100 percent post-consumer resins. The joint venture will make high density…
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New hybrid PET/F polymer successfully moulded into preforms
Iranpolymer/ Baspar Origin Materials, Inc., a leading carbon negative materials company based in Sacramento, California and Canada-headquartered Husky Technologies, an injection moulding supplier of equipment and services to the plastics industry, have joined forces on the development and commercialisation of…
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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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Alpla launches new Alplarecycling brand
Iranpolymer/ Baspar Plastic packaging specialist Alpla is no newcomer to the recycling world. Its first investment in recycling date from 2005 when it became a joint-venture partner in a PET recycling plant in Toluca Mexico. Today, the company operates 13…
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UPM Biochemicals and Selenis Form Strategic Alliance to Develop Sustainable PETG
Iranpolymer/ Baspar Finland’s UPM Biochemicals and Portugal-based Selenis, a subsidiary of the IMG Group, have formed a strategic partnership to produce sustainable PETG (polyethylene terephthalate glycol) resin that will accelerate the introduction of renewable, sustainable forest-sourced materials into plastic applications. Highly-transparent and FDA-approved…
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Tailor-made compounds aims to offer solutions for the automotive industry
Iranpolymer/ Baspar E-mobility plus the continuing trend towards lightweight construction mean that the demands made on the performance properties of thermoplastics for automotive applications are constantly increasing. A broad portfolio of tailor-made material developments from TechnoCompound has been tuned into…
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Recyclers feeling the strain as prices tumble
Iranpolymer/ Baspar The European recycled plastics market is under severe pressure because of extremely low demand and lengthening supply. While some recycling plants have been shut down, most others are operating at reduced rates in order to avoid excess stocks…
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PET imports impact EU recycled content targets
Iranpolymer/ Baspar A major increase in PET imports threatens the competitiveness of the EU’s industry, along with its objective to improve the waste management of plastics. PET imports doubled between 2021 and 2022, reaching 1.9Mt, driven by increased demand for…
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Carbios, Indorama Ventures to build world’s first PET biorecycling plant
Iranpolymer/ Baspar Biotech company Carbios and Bangkok-based chemical giant Indorama Ventures, a global sustainable chemical producer, have signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to form a Joint Venture for the construction of the world’s first PET biorecycling plant in…
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Bekum Acquires Thermoplastic Pultrusion Machinery Business
Iranpolymer/ Baspar Bekum Maschinenfabriken GmbH in Germany has acquired the long-fiber thermoplastic (LFT) pultrusion business of ProTec Polymer Processing GmbH, also in Germany. Bekum has retained the previous technical managing director of the insolvent ProTec company, along with experienced employees in…
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Coca-Cola: Beverage company increases RE PET share
Baspar / Iran polymer The soft drink multinational is increasingly relying on the use of RE PET in its one-way deposit bottles and is reporting further progress in its sustainability efforts: The PET bottles of the brands “ViO”, “Fuze Tea”…
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China: Good offer depresses prices for standard thermoplastics
Baspar / Iran polymer The prices of most standard thermoplastics in the Chinese market fell in April in light of the trend towards market length. The polypropylene market in particular was characterized by oversupply. Two new plants went into operation…
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Additive fosters virgin-like resin properties in 100% regrind
IRANPOLYMER/BASPAR Physical property tests carried out by Riverdale Global LLC (Aston, PA) in cooperation with a molder of packaging containers reportedly has demonstrated that +Restore liquid additive is even more effective in improving the performance of plastics regrind based on post-consumer…
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