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They create plastic film from coffee residues
A new European project transforms various urban organic waste, such as fish and meat waste, used coffee grounds or used cooking oil, into new biobased products Aimplas, Technological Institute of Plastics, announced that it has managed to develop a plastic film from...
Wiltopia: toys made from recycled plastic
Wiltopia's new range is made from 80% plastic from sustainable sources Since its inception, plastic has been a fundamental material for the toy industry. Now, the sector has evolved together with this material and is moving towards a more sustainable model. Such is...
Gaiker develops a method for the identification and classification of WEEE plastics
It is estimated that, only in Europe, 1.2 million tons of plastic mixtures are generated from the treatment of waste electrical-electronic equipment (WEEE), a type of polymer that is highly difficult to recycle. Waste from electrical and electronic equipment,...
They mold a complex automotive structural part from a single preform
Epoxy/carbon fiber composite is 80% lighter than equivalent metal part Cannon Tipos has collaborated with Coriolis Composites to develop fast and accurate High Pressure Resin Transfer Molding (HP-RTM) of a nearly net shaped dry preform. The part, the company...
Acoustiflex VEF BIO: the new bio-based polyurethane system
New memory foam containing up to 20% bio-based content reduces the car's carbon footprint without sacrificing performance Huntsman this week introduced Acoustiflex VEF BIO, a memory foam containing up to 20% bio-based content derived from vegetable oils for acoustic...
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Green chemistry and enzymes: betting on a more sustainable recycling of plastics
Fiber-reinforced thermosetting resins, usually glass and carbon, give rise to light and very resistant materials that are highly attractive in strategic sectors such as aeronautics (5.3% CAGR 2018-2023), wind energy (4.7% CAGR 2018-2023), automotive (3.8% CAGR...
Recycled Polycarbonate copes with environmental pollution by cell phones
Covestro has ventured into the production of Post-Consumer Recycled Polycarbonate (PCR) for the back cover, the central frame and the wireless cell phone charger. Covestro has ventured into the production of Post-Consumer Recycled Polycarbonate (PCR) for the back...
New technology turns polyurethane waste into useful products
Saip's Repur technology transforms powders derived from Polyurethane processing, MFD agglomerate into useful materials More and more companies are interested in joining sustainable processes, however, generating useful products from materials such as post-consumer...
New sprayer offers more productivity for extruded PVC window profiles
The PKM800 high performance pulverizer converts scrap PVC and delivers 2,000 lbs/hr of recycled PVC with a 20 mesh (840 micron) particle size Pallmann Industries, a provider of size reduction equipment for the Plastics Industry, recently introduced its Pallmann PKM800...
Samsung will use recycled marine plastics in its devices
In order to reduce its ecological footprint and reuse as much plastic as possible, Samsung seeks to promote strategies that take advantage of the properties of recycled plastic. Samsung disclosed that its next Galaxy devices, scheduled to launch this week, will be...
More resistant plastics from recycling? It’s already possible
By selectively extracting hydrogen atoms from the Polyolefin, the chemists devised a way to extend the life of single-use plastic into a high-value plastic known as an ionomer. Chemists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have created a method to create...
Recycled plastic denture molds are a reality
SmileDirectClub maintains an agreement with HP with which it has created a sustainable production model with which it can manufacture up to 75,000 dental aligners daily with 3D printing technology Plastics are such malleable materials that they continue to provide...
A truly cheap and abundant bioplastic?
Bioderived materials usually have an economic cost that significantly increases the final price of the products in which they are used. Scientists around the world are still trying to create new sustainable materials, but unless these materials are scalable and...