Recycling

Swiss caps and closures company corvaglia opens first U.S. production plant

March 22, 2019

A manufacturer of 100% recyclable plastic caps and closures for the global food and beverage industry, corvaglia’s new U.S. facility in Newnan, GA, will utilize in-house proprietary molds to manufacture lightweight one-piece caps and closures for the North American market.

Hoffer Plastics' signature Drop-Lok closure

Hoffer Plastics adds high-speed lining machine for signature Drop-Lok closures

March 20, 2019

Packaging

Sustainability, Recycling, Injection Molding

Clare Goldsberry

Beyond just improving line speeds, the equipment delivers a more consistent, high-quality lined closure, which means increased efficiencies for customers, said Hoffer Plastics Corp. (South Elgin, IL).

Advanced recycling technologies could have $10 billion economic impact, says ACC report

March 20, 2019

Recycling

Packaging, Sustainability, Materials

Clare Goldsberry

If widely adopted, advanced plastic recycling and recovery processes could result in nearly 40,000 U.S. jobs, as much as $2.2 billion in annual payroll, and another $9.9 billion in direct and indirect economic output, according to the report released today.

Biodegrade showing tractor at biodegradable compost heap

Top eight things to know about biodegradable packaging

March 19, 2019

Packaging

Sustainability, Recycling, Materials

Robert Lilienfeld

What plastics and packaging professionals should know before taking the compostable or biodegradable leap.

Post-consumer plastics have potential in automotive applications, but they also have challenges

March 18, 2019

Automotive and Mobility

Recycling, Consumer Products, Materials

Clare Goldsberry

On the plus side, post-consumer resin feed stock generally is always available from material recovery facilities and is not subject to economic conditions to the extent of post-industrial resins.

Of purity, danger and extrusion: The importance of screens in plastics recycling

March 16, 2019

Extrusion: Pipe & Profile

Recycling, Auxiliaries, Consumer Products, Extrusion: Film & Sheet

Allan Griff

There is always an issue of contamination with recycling. Contaminants can be removed by filtration (screening), and the technology is well ahead of most of our needs. The hard part is estimating the commercial significance of the contamination to justify the cost of finer screening.

Smart additives target recycling of painted parts

March 14, 2019

Recycling

Sustainability, Consumer Electronics, Automotive and Mobility, Materials

Stephen Moore

A European consortium plans to investigate triggerable smart polymer material systems and appropriate recycling processes for plastics auto and electronic parts, and clothing that employ multilayer coatings.

Sustainability front and center at World Petrochemical Conference

March 12, 2019

Sustainability

Packaging, Recycling, Consumer Products, Materials, Medical

Clare Goldsberry

Sustainable solutions to address plastics waste will be an overarching theme at WPC 2019, The Golden Age of Chemicals: A Question of Sustainability in San Antonio, TX, this month.