DuPont opens Illinois plant providing alternative plastic from fructose
DuPont and Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) on Monday announced the opening of the world’s first biobased “furan dicarboxylic methyl ester (FDME)” pilot production plant in Decatur, Illinois. FDME is a molecule derived from fructose rather than fossil fuels that’s...Joint venture ‘Corpus Christi Polymers’ purchases Texas M&G plant
The company –a subsidiary of an Italian based Petro-chemical plant– was supposed to produce more than one million tons of plastic used to make soda bottles but was closed after multiple companies took out liens against the plant leaving them unpaid. The...Manipuri industrialist makes it big with plastics
Imphal, (Manipur): Keeping in mind Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Start Up India’ mission, an entrepreneur from Manipur made it big in the business of plastic. Manipur’s very own industrialist Kshetrimayum Ibochou Singh has also made a name for himself among the...What’s ahead for robots in packaging?
Robots were hot in 2017 and they’ll be hotter still in 2018. It was impossible to turn around without seeing a story about them. Often it was about how robots and artificial intelligence were going to put everyone out of work and that the world would end. Some of the...Plastech Acquires Majority Share in Kautex Maschinenbau
Extrusion blow molding machinery maker Kautex Maschinenbau Group has a new majority owner. Vienna-based investment firm Plastech Beteiligungs GmbH has purchased a 74.9 per cent stake in Kautex, which is headquartered in Bonn, Germany. Plastech takes over from the...