thyssenkrupp awarded contract to build new PLA plant in China

Within the scope of the 2020 ’50 Sustainability & Climate Leaders’ campaign, TBD Media Group and the Bloomberg media corporation analysed and evaluated the commitment of industrial companies from a wide range of sectors. They came to a selection of the 50 most sustainable and climate-aware companies worldwide. Engel Austria is the only plastics machinery manufacturer to be included.

The Circular Economy for Flexible Packaging (Ceflex) initiative, a fast-growing consortium of companies, associations and organisations collaborating to enhance the performance of flexible packaging in the circular economy in Europe, has announced that it has published its first Position Paper.

Women in 3D Printing has announced the industry’s first all-female agenda of additive manufacturing speakers at the inaugural edition of its TIPE 3D Printing conference, scheduled to take place virtually on 27-28 January 2021.

Materials manufacturer Trinseo and Fernholz, a plastics packaging manufacturer headquartered in Germany have developed a new grade of post-consumer recycled polystyrene.

Loop Industries, a Montréal, Canada-based technology company that has developed proprietary PET depolymerisation technology for no and low-value PET and polyester fibre waste has joined forces with French multinational environmental services provider Suez on a new recycling project.

Germany's Institute for Plastics Processing (IKV) has awarded two major honours, including one to Markus Steilemann, CEO of global materials firm Covestro AG.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Sept. 11 it's adopted plastic waste management rules that it called "partial progress" on dealing with exporting of scrap within its 37 member nations.

A new product has joined the range of security seals produced by UK-based technical injection moulder Talisman Plastics.

Italian machinery manufacturer Amut has won the tender contract for the construction of a  large-scale sorting and recycling plant for post-consumer PET & HDPE bottles.

PLA has been a focus at Sulzer Chemtech for many years – even before the current surge of interest in ‘green’ solutions. Sustainable Plastics talked with Alex Battù, sales manager of the PLA team at the company, about the challenges involved in building systems to produce this bioplastic, compared to conventional materials.