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Shortage of supplies and containers: a challenge for global supply
The United States faces a historic container gridlock. China, South Korea and Thailand are the three countries that supply Mexico in high seasons Due to the shortage of supplies for the production of electronic devices, the lack of containers, the increase in...
Ecological electric vehicle charging with mass balanced polycarbonate
The EVBox Group will use Covestro's Makrolon RE polycarbonate, which comes from recycled waste and residues, for charging infrastructures. In order to drive the transition to electric mobility, Covestro continues to develop innovative material solutions and has...
Barcelona uses non-recyclable plastic to pave a street
The new material, explained the Barcelona City Council, has a higher resistance than normal pavements and has a better behavior when passing buses. The Barcelona City Council, in Spain, is implementing creative and innovative ways to reuse non-recyclable plastic, all...
Plastic from algae, Sway’s bet
According to Sway, seaweed grows up to 60 times faster than other crops on land, and can remove up to 20 times more carbon from the air than forests The American startup Sway could have found a suitable material to replace a considerable number of plastic in the...
Arkema presents its new PA 11 «biocircular» medical grade
The new polymer, the company explained, is rigid enough to replace metal parts in surgical devices and has a much lower climate change impact than comparable fossil-based plastics. Arkema launched a new Polyamide (PA) 11 developed for medical applications that...
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Econyl: a thread from recycled fishing nets changes the auto industry
Econyl thread is a material made from recycled fishing nets and other polyamide waste. Products made with this material can also be recycled to generate new items Sustainable technologies are gaining more and more presence in the Automotive industry, driven largely by...
Water-soluble plastics: sustainable ally against COVID-19
Water-soluble plastics could become a sustainable and biodegradable alternative for the waste problem, as well as being an important ally in health matters Research on water-soluble plastics has increased in recent years, but very few initiatives have succeeded. The...
Morocco toughens regulations for the entry of industrial products and requires certifications
The Kingdom of Morocco has further strengthened the requirements of the 2020 Conformity Verification Program (VOC) in which the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Green Economy and Digital (MICEVN) establishes the obligation to certify industrial products that reach its...
PolyREC is born, the organization that will report on the Circularity of Plastics in Europe
The European associations Petcore Europe, PlasticsEurope, Plastics Recyclers Europe and VinylPlus have agreed to join forces to create the PolyREC organization. This new entity will monitor, verify and report on recycling data and use of recycled plastics in Europe....
Advances in plastic recycling processes: towards a Circular Economy
The development of a Circular Economy to combat the emergency situation created by plastic waste depends on our being able to generate a demand for high quality recycled products. Stadler, a world leader in sorting plants for the recycling industry, has undergone a...
New plastic can repel COVID-19 in 15 minutes
AlpFilm Protect PBC is a plastic film that inactivates 99.99% of the coronavirus in 15 minutes. The material has been prepared by the companies Braskem, AlpFilm and Nanox, in conjunction with the federal universities of São Carlos (UFSCar) of Brazil and Jaume I of...
Spain needs to double the production of recycled plastic to meet the demand of the food industry
The demand for recycled plastic (r-PET) is registering a growing trend driven, among others, by new regulatory requirements or sustainability commitments established by companies, which sometimes become even more ambitious. Specifically, the European Union has...
This is how the first cobot box packer works in the packaging industry
The new autonomous collaborative robot (cobot) is a 6-axis Omron and is part of a new automation solution applied by the company Muller Technology, a leading global provider of molds and automation solutions for thin-wall packaging, announced the launch of the first...