Materials
Materials
In response to growing consumer interest in sustainable products, bioengineering leader Genomatica, headquartered n California, and Italy-based polyamide producer Aquafil are collaborating on the construction of a demonstration scale facility for 100% renewably-sourced polyamide 6.
UK biotech company Toraphene has announced the introduction of a new biodegradable, backyard compostable and commercially viable alternative to plastic packaging.
The new colour, functional and combination masterbatches for POM developed by Tosaf Color Service have been specifically formulated in order to help manufacturers, especially those in the automotive industry, more easily comply with the emission specifications applying to the use of these materials.
At last year’s K show, Baerlocher’s family of additives that boost the performance of recycled polyolefins generated considerable interest among the visitors to the company’s stand.
With the adoption of its new circular economy strategy last autumn, Greiner Packaging has been assessing a number of aspects relating to the further development of sustainable material solutions for its customers.
Since committing to eliminating all phthalates from its products in November 2015, Repsol has remained steadily on course to achieve this, meanwhile becoming one of the leading companies pushing this transition forward.
Nova Chemicals is seeing results from its plastics recycling efforts in Indonesia.
Circularise, the blockchain supply chain transparency provider, recently launched a project with Porsche and material suppliers Borealis, Covestro and Domo Chemicals within the scope of the Startup Autobahn innovation programme aimed at enabling the traceability of plastics on blockchain to validate the use of sustainable materials in Porsche cars.
Two major Italian market players, Maire Tecnimont S.P.A. and Hera Group, have joined forces to build a plant table to produce customised recycled materials with near-virgin qualities and properties that will meet the highest market standards and requirements.
Topas Advanced Polymers has announced that its cyclic olefin copolymer (COC) products have now gained certification as recyclable materials by the European independent testing lab, Institut cyclos-HTP, based in Aachen, Germany.
In the three years since its founding in 2017, 4ocean, a for-profit company based in Boca Raton, Florida dedicated to tackling the ocean plastic crisis, has already recovered over 11 million pounds of plastic pollution from the ocean, rivers and coastlines around the world.
Having successfully completed the first, four-year phase of the ambitious Carbon2Chem project which it initiated, thyssenkrupp is now moving ahead into phase 2, with a new €75 million grant from the German federal government.
Italy-based fresh food packaging specialist AMB Spa is committed to supporting its customers to meet their sustainability goals in the area of sustainable packaging.
Aptar Food + Beverage, a leading producer of elastomeric flow solutions, has developed a new valve designed to better meet today’s sustainability requirements.