Materials
Materials
Working in collaboration with beauty packaging manufacturer Albéa and Sabic, The Estée Lauders Companies have announced the introduction in 2021 of a newly designed tube packaging made from certified circular polyolefins from Sabic’s Trucircle portfolio.
Nordmann, an international chemical distributor headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, has signed an agreement with Biofibre, a German manufacturer of biocompounds, for the distribution of Biofibre’s product range in a broad selection of European countries, effective immediately.
LG Chem has announced that it has successfully developed a wholly new biobased polymer offering mechanical properties and transparency similar to a conventional fossil-based materials like PP.
Germany-headquartered M-Base Engineering + Software GmbH, a leading international supplier of material database and material information systems, has been acquired by Altair, a global information technology company located in Michigan, USA.
A new brand of organic tea capsules launched by Melitta Single Portions has taken transparency to a new level.
Graphene nanotube supplier OCSiAl has opened a new R&D and technical support centre designed to develop next-generation materials with graphene nanotubes.
Brückner Maschinenbau, a leading manufacturer of technology for flexible packaging production and Sabic have collaborated on the development of flexible packaging films based on Sabic’s certified circular BOPP and BOPE materials.
For the first time, Covestro’s innovative CO2-based cardyon polyol has been used in in China in the production of sports flooring.
Borealis, Borouge and Itochu have announced that they have establish a strategic collaboration aimed at introducing renewable polypropylene in the form of consumer and other products to the Japanese market.
A partnership between Sabic, film suppliers/extruders Ticinoplast and Plastchim-T, and packaging machine manufacturer Syntegon Technology, has resulted in the development of a sustainable packaging solution for frozen food.
Sebastien-Jun Mougnier, sports market development manager at France-based specialty chemical company Arkema would like to correct a misunderstanding.
A pilot plant aimed at scaling and demonstrating the feasibility of the artificial photosynthesis technology developed within the scope of Germany’s Rheticus I and II research projects was officially opened earlier today at Evonik’s site in Marl.
Swiss masterbatch producer Sukano says it has developed an innovative masterbatch that demonstrates a strong antiviral effect on plastic parts made from PET and PA.
Irplast S.p.A., an Italian producer of simultaneously bi-oriented BOPP film, has developed two new S-BOPP film products based on PP polymers from Sabic’s Trucircle portfolio for the manufacture of printed adhesive tapes, wraparound labels and other applications.