by plastics editor | Aug 18, 2017 | Daily News, Packaging, Process Recycling
From uniting big name packaging manufacturers to setting up standardized collection regimes and opening a reprocessing plant in 2013, the Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment (ACE UK) is celebrating 10 years of recycling beverage cartons. Source Link...
by plastics editor | Aug 18, 2017 | Blow Molding, Daily News, Injection Molding, Packaging, Part/Product Design, Plastics Materials, Thermoforming
Despite the advent of 3D printing to assist packaging development, there remains a place for old-fashioned model-making even for leading-edge plastic packaging design operations. For example, RPC Design (Rushden, UK), has just completed construction of a foam modeling...
by plastics editor | Aug 17, 2017 | Daily News, Extrusion, Packaging, Part/Product Design, Plastics Materials, Process Recycling, Thermoforming
Primex Plastics Corp. (Richmond, IN), specializing in custom extruded plastic sheet and roll products for thermoforming, fabrication and printing, has announced the release of its Prime Bubble-X, a unique air-bubble co-extruded polypropylene board designed with a...
by plastics editor | Aug 16, 2017 | Daily News, Packaging
With a recycling rate of 38% in 2016 for expanded polystyrene (EPS), why are companies eliminating the affordable, reliable protective packaging material from their options? The type of plastic you use for your packaging matters more and more, for various...
by plastics editor | Aug 16, 2017 | Daily News, Packaging, Part/Product Design, Plastics Materials
DuPont (Wilmington, DE) sees a clear route to helping the planet through the use of high-performance bioplastics for packaging and other end-use products including textiles and engineering plastics. That’s no small task, yet one the company has both embraced and...
by plastics editor | Aug 16, 2017 | Compounding, Daily News, Packaging
Ralph Noble, a pioneering member of Canada’s plastics industry who became the Society of Plastics Engineers’ first president from outside the U.S., died on August 6, at the age of 89, in Rigaud, Que. Born in Oshawa, Ont., Noble graduated from the University of Toronto...
