Materials
Materials
Covestro, Advanced Polymer Technology and Polytan jointly developed the Poligras Tokyo GT field hockey surface. Used as a flooring in the hockey fields at this summer's major sporting event in Tokyo, it contains a polyurethane raw material from Covestro produced with up to 20 percent CO₂.
Rolla, Missouri – The use of biopolyols in place of petroleum-based polyols in rigid foams can negatively affect the foam’s properties.
Houston, Texas – Orion Engineered Carbons SA has formed a partnership with RISE Research Institutes of Sweden to develop and produce renewable carbon black.
In 2019, the DuPont Mobility & Materials production facility at Dordrecht, the Netherlands, was the first DuPont manufacturing site to receive ISCC certification - and was the first POM plant worldwide to be certified.
The resin maker already is receiving material from Braven's plant in North Carolina, produced from difficult-to-recycle mixed plastics.
SK Capital Partners and Heubach Group have acquired the pigments business of Clariant AG, which makes materials used in many plastic products.
Honeycomb technology combined with fire-resistant basalt fibres creates innovative solution combining a lighter weight, safety and sustainability.
Hamburg-based distributor K.D. Feddersen and Aurora Kunststoffe, a manufacturer of high-quality technical recompounds based in Neuenstein, Germany, are expanding the scope of a collaboration that has been in place between the two companies since 2014.
Arkema has acquired a 10% in French start-up Erpro 3D Factory, a company specialised in large-series additive manufacturing.
America is in a period of transition to an economy increasingly focused on renewable supplies and products with less social and environmental impacts.
A plastics recycling trade group wants to see the definition of chemical recycling limited to circular loops used to make new plastics, but other industry groups want broader considerations.
Copolyesters are formed when modifications are made to polyesters. These modifications can considerably modify the performance profile of the polyester in question. Case in point: PEIT.
Major PET recycler CarbonLite is selling each of its three plants as part of a bankruptcy filing.
Three resin companies and Closed Loop Partners are launching a $100 million plastics recycling investment fund.