polypropylene

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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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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Is graphene the silver bullet for plastic recycling woes?

Iranpolymer/Baspar  If it feels like you’ve been hearing about recycling plastic all of your life, you might be right. The first plastic recycling mill was built in 1972[1], about the same time as the Environmental Protection Agency was formed. But…

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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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Republic Services and Ravago in Partnership to Build Recycling Capacity

Iranpolymer/ Baspar  Republic Services, an provider of environmental services, and Ravago, a polymer recycling and distribution company, announced the creation of Blue Polymers, an innovative partnership that will help advance circularity in the plastics industry. Blue Polymers is developing a network…

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SABIC launches two new materials- suitable for compression and injection moulding

Iranpolymer/ Baspar   SABIC, a global chemicals producer, has introduced SABIC PP compound H1090 resin and STAMAX 30YH611 resin, two materials  that the company says are well-suited for sheet extrusion and thermoforming that offer a unique alternative to traditional sheet metal forming,…

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Borealis expands circularity portfolio with purchase Rialti S.p.A

Iranpolymer/ Baspar  With the announcement that it is acquiring Rialti, one of Europe’s leading producers of mechanically recycled polypropylene (PP) compounds for injection moulding and extrusion, Borealis is once again demonstrating that it is serious about the transition to a…

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Upcycling PP with peroxide masterbatches

Baspar/Iranpolymer  According to the Federal Environment Agency, around 3.33 million tonnes of plastic waste were recycled or reused as raw materials in Germany in 2019. More than 38 per cent of this was polypropylene (PP). Yet recycling this PP comes with…

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Green polypropylene production is coming to America

Baspar/Iranpolymer  Process technology and energy expert Lummus Technology and Citroniq Chemicals, a producer of carbon-negative materials, have signed a letter of intent (LOI) for the development of Citroniq’s green polypropylene projects in North America based on the Verdene PP technology…

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Fungi makes a meal of hard-to-recycle plastic

Baspar/Iranpolymer Polypropylene, a hard-to-recycle plastic, has successfully been biodegraded by two strains of fungi in a new experiment led by researchers at the University of Sydney. Polypropylene has long been recycling’s head scratching riddle. A common plastic used for a…

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PureCycle: First European chemical recycling plant announced

Baspar / Iranpolymer The recycling specialist PureCycle Technologies (USA) wants to build its first European plant for the recycling of polypropylene in the “NextGen District” of the port of Antwerp in the coming year 2024. The listed US company stated…

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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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Netstal to demonstrate its outstanding application expertise in the field of cosmetics closures at Plastpol

At the stand of its Polish representative Muehsam-Elektromech, Netstal will present the production of high-quality flip-top closures on an all-electric ELION 2200 at the Plastpol trade fair in Kielce, PL (17-20 May 2016, Stand F1). Customers and visitors can also…

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