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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...
Evonik develops a transparent sustainable polyamide for the optical industry
Evonik developed a transparent sustainable polyamide made with a 50% reduction in carbon dioxide footprint compared to similar products developed with conventional energies. Polyamides are essential in the optical industry, but they do not always go hand in hand with...
Gaiker studies the impact of micro and nanoplastics on health
Micro and nanoplastics are small pieces of plastic that, due to their difficulty in degrading, remain in the environment for a long time. These particles are found in food, drinking water, air and soils, and despite efforts to assess the real dimension of the risks...
Grinding mills, how to choose the most suitable one?
The purchase of such specific machinery as grinding mills can be a real headache if a series of fundamental factors are not taken into account for the perfect functioning of the entire recycling process. The wide variety of shredding mills that exists today makes them...
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Tariffs would hurt both the United States and Mexico
The United States has established itself as a low-cost producer of high-quality manufactured goods that use skilled workers and technology. We compete on service and quality, as well as making the supply chain more efficient compared to importing components by ship...
Kraiburg TPE presents innovative solutions for the automotive sector
The company launches a low-odor, low-emission elastomer Kraiburg TPE presented a new material at Chinaplas 2019 that opens up new opportunities for automotive designers. Hybrid thermoplastic elastomers (TEH) make it possible to combine different mixtures of elastomers...
Recycling infrastructure underfunded, say industry leaders
Sonoma, California. - Bans, taxes and warm sentiments about saving the planet are great, but recycling plastics is still woefully insufficient. That was the sentiment at the Western Plastics Association annual conference in Sonoma. "People talk about roads, but...
Increasing demand for TPE is expected for the next five years
The global market for thermoplastics grew 4.2% in 2018 TSRC Corporation Senior Vice President of Advanced Materials Division, Hendrick Lam, assured that the global TPE market maintains accelerated growth and momentum is expected to continue through 2024. As the...
Small Asian country aspires to be the first “plastics neutral” nation
The small Southeast Asian nation of East Timor wants to be the world's first plastic-neutral nation by recycling all its plastic waste with the help of a technology invented by Australia. The technology, a catalytic hydrothermal reactor (Cat-HTR), was invented at the...
Informality in packaging manufacturing a risk for all
In addition to household post-consumer waste, agricultural waste is also an important issue in Argentina and the rest of the world According to the Argentine Chamber of the Plastic Recycling Industry (Cairplas), and according to data from La Nación, an Argentine...
Smart additives will give a new life to plastics and textiles with hard-to-recycle coatings
The European plastics industry, in collaboration with the European Commission, has made a commitment to advance the recycling of plastic products and has set itself the goal of reaching a 50% waste rate by 2040. Most plastics They are easily recyclable, but some...
The UN adopts a global treaty limiting trade in plastic waste
Hoping to reduce plastic pollution in the environment, members of a high-level meeting of the United Nations on May 10 decided to include plastic waste in a treaty regulating the trade in hazardous waste. The changes to the Basel Convention, which were pushed by...