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Lego launches tyres made with recycled materials

Iranpolymer/Baspar As Lego continues its search for sustainable alternatives to virgin plastic, the Danish toy maker has launched tyres made from recycled materials sourced from old fishing nets, ropes, and engine oil. The material is a blend of styrene-ethylene-butylene-styrene created by mechanically recycling…

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Scientists recycle carbon fibre-reinforced polymers using electrical pulses

Iranpolymer/Baspar  Researchers from Waseda University in Japan have developed a method to efficiently recycle carbon-fibre reinforced polymers (CFRPs). CFRPs are much-prized material choices in demanding application fields, such as the aerospace and automotive industries. Their combination of rigidity, mechanical strength, and…

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Resin manufacturing facility in Singapore for growing demand in Asia-Pacific

Iranpolymer/Baspar SABIC announced the official launch of its new US$170 (S$220) million ULTEM™ resin manufacturing facility in Singapore, marking the company’s first advanced specialty chemical manufacturing facility in the region producing the high-performance thermoplastic, ULTEM resin. The new facility is a…

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Biomass-derived sustainable LCP solution

Iranpolymer/Baspar  Polyplastics has announced the launch of LAPEROS® bG-LCP, a sustainable solution based on biomass-derived materials (mass balance approach) which reduces CO2 emissions and improves renewable content ratio. The introduction expands the company’s DURACIRCLE® initiative which already includes DURACON® bG-POM.…

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Compostable straw maker expands with plant for PHA cutlery

Iranpolymer/Baspar  Kent, Wash.-based compostable straw manufacturer Eagle Beverage and Accessory Products LLC has opened an injection molding plant to expand into the market for polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) cutlery. The facility poises the privately held, certified minority- and women-owned business to significantly…

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PLASTICS Report Shows Strong Global Demand for Plastics

Iranpolymer/Baspar  The Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS) released its annual Global Trends report during a press briefing and keynote address at the Plastimagen trade show in Mexico City. Presented by PLASTICS’ Chief Economist Perc Pineda, the report found that while global trade volume…

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SABIC’S STAMAX™ 30YH570 RESIN IS FIRST POLYMER TO EARN A UL VERIFIED MARK FOR THERMAL RUNAWAY PROTECTION OF EV BATTERY SYSTEMS

Iranpolymer/Baspar SABIC, a global leader in the chemical industry, today announced that its STAMAX™ 30YH570 resin has earned the UL Verified Mark from Underwriters Laboratories. This 30 percent glass fiber-reinforced copolymer resin, a featured product offered under the company’s BLUEHERO™…

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SABIC’S INNOVATIVE SOLUTION WINS 2023 R&D 100 AWARD

Iranpolymer/Baspar  SABIC has been named a winner of the 2023 R&D 100 Award, a global science and innovation competition, for its innovative solution, demonstrating how the company is continuing to invest in technology and innovation across multiple industries to help…

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SABIC develops bio-based versions of popular resins

Iranpolymer/Baspar  Chemicals producer SABIC,  is now offering bio-based versions of all NORYL, Flexible NORYL, NORYL GTX and NORYL PPX resin grades to help customers meet increasingly rigorous sustainability goals. It is claimed that, The bio-based versions, formulated with polyphenylene ether (PPE)…

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Kuraray adding production in Texas, Europe; cutting jobs in Indiana

Iranpolymer/ Baspar  Japanese materials firm Kuraray Co. Ltd. is moving in two directions at once, adding specialty resin capacity in Texas and Belgium, while cutting jobs in Indiana. In a 9 August news release, officials with Kuraray in Tokyo said…

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Braskem invests $87M to expand biopolymer production

Iranpolymer/ Baspar Braskem has spent almost $90 million to add more than 130 million pounds of bio-based plastic feedstock in Triunfo, Brazil. The $87 million project was completed in June, officials with Braskem in São Paulo said in a news…

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Ski line by Rossignol made using INEOS resins

Iranpolymer/ Baspar The new line is the result of 10 years of research and development at Rossignol. “ISCC-Plus certified REODRIN brings about a 70% reduction in GHG emissions compared to fossil based equivalent. As the world’s first bio-attributed epichlorohydrin, REODRIN…

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Nova goes global with resins for BOPE-HD film

Iranpolymer/ Baspar Nova Chemicals Corp. now has resins used to make biaxially oriented high density polyethylene (BOPE-HD) film available on a global level. Officials with Nova in Calgary, Alberta, said that films made with the resins are an alternative to…

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The project of the composite cabin of the subway driver

Baspar / Iranpolymer At the end of 2021, studies for the construction of a city train or subway driver’s wagon were started at Wagon Pars Mapna Company, which led to the design and finalization of this wagon in the following…

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Composites: Further price increases for resins towards the end of the year

Baspar / Iranpolymer The resin producers are turning the price screw every month. Polynt (Italy) wants to make unsaturated polyester and vinyl ester resins more expensive at the turn of the year due to higher costs for energy and CO2…

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Styrene: Covestro / LyondellBasell declare force majeure

IRANPOLYMER/ BASPAR “Unpredictable damage” is the reason for the failure of the styrene and propylene oxide plant at Lyondell Covestro Manufacturing Maasvlakte VOF in Maasvlakte, the Netherlands, on February 11, 2021. A spokesman confirmed both the failure and the directly…

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ABS 3D printing project to develop new generation of polymers for additive manufacturing

An R&D project initiated by Spain-based specialty acrylic-butadiene-styrene (ABS) producer Elix Polymers aims to develop advanced resin grades specifically for 3D printing using the fused filament fabrication (FFF) process.

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Biobased alternative for sound- and vibration-reducing materials in railway systems

Environmentally friendly plastics for elastic rail fastening systems are the focus of development work at Dutch organization Wageningen UR Food & Biobased Research. These polymers are currently often based on isocyanates, which require special attention to occupational safety when being used.…

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