by Plastics.com Staff | Sep 12, 2018 | Business, Daily News, Film Extrusion, North America, Packaging
Toray Plastics (America),has expanded its portfolio of white films and now offers consumer product goods companies and converters five new Torayfan white-pigmented metallized biaxially-oriented polypropylene (BOPP) films. The new films encompass sealable and...
by Plastics.com Staff | Sep 12, 2018 | Business, Daily News, North America, Polymer Science, Recycling
Oregon — Agilyx is already processing scrap PS into a feedstock for prime plastics production. Now, the Oregon company says it can do the same thing for recovered PE and PP. Agilyx announced last week it is capable of processing the polyolefin recyclables into a...
by Plastics.com Staff | Sep 12, 2018 | Asia/Pacifica, Business, Daily News, Environmental, North America, Recycling, Scrap Plastics
Thailand — A Thai policy restricting the import of scrap plastics has proved effective. U.S. scrap plastic exports to the country dropped by 94 percent after the ban took hold. U.S. exporters sent 1.5 million pounds of recovered plastic to Thailand in July, the most...
by Plastics.com Staff | Sep 11, 2018 | Daily News, Environmental, Europe, Polymer Science, Recycling
UK — UK scientists have discovered a simple sunlight-driven process to transform plastic waste into hydrogen and other useful chemicals. ‘We want to use non-recyclable waste and make something useful out of it. Plastic waste contains a lot of energy and when you throw...
by Plastics.com Staff | Sep 10, 2018 | Asia/Pacifica, Business, Daily News, Extrusion, North America
A Chinese company will open a plastics recycling facility in Georgia, the latest instance in a growing trend of Chinese investment in North American processing infrastructure. Yunnan Xintongji Plastic Engineering plans to open a plant in Montezuma, Ga., where the...
by Plastics.com Staff | Sep 10, 2018 | Consumer, Daily News, Environmental, Europe, Global, Injection Molding, Part Design
Billund, Denmark — At the heart of this town lies a building that is a veritable temple to the area’s most famous creation, the humble Lego brick. It is filled with complex creations, from a 50-foot tree to a collection of multicoloured dinosaurs, all of them built...
