Flexible packaging machine manufacturer Windmöller & Hölscher said it had more than 2,000 visitors from 120 countries tune into online press demonstrations, technical sessions and meetings during its first virtual expo held June 24 and 25.

Engel Austria GmbH says it will launch an extremely compact, high-output injection moulding machine in October that provides low unit costs even in a cleanroom environment.

Milan-based machinery maker Negri Bossi SpA employees and its injection moulding machines are part of two efforts to produce personal protective equipment for Italian communities hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.
 

An international pop artist will finish her latest work at Amplast booth and dedicate it to the plastics industry with a call for increased recycling and sustainability efforts.

The maker of extrusion blow molding machines is demonstrating the circular economy by processing bottles from a Braskem bioplastic and recycled material.

After another technical tweak, the Ocean Cleanup's marine sweeper is doing its intended job in the Pacific Ocean and collecting garbage from the size of large ghost nets down to microplastics as small as 1 millimeter, according to the Dutch nonprofit group.

In a launch seen globally through an internet livestream, a tugboat departed San Francisco Bay on Sept. 8 bound for the Great Pacific Garbage Patch with a marine litter collection system in tow, designed to rid the seas of plastic.