Karen Laird

A joint project to convert water-based waste into energy at the Maasvlakte site of Covestro and LyondellBasell has officially reached completion, the two companies announced during an onsite ceremony held 25 October.

Demand for quality recycled polymers has surged across a wide variety of industry and manufacturing sectors, reaching levels not seen before according to Manchester, UK-based plastics recycler Axion Polymers.

UBQ Materials, an Israeli company that has developed a conversion technology that transforms household waste into what the company says is a ‘climate-positive, cost-competitive, and fully recyclable’ thermoplastic material, has entered into its first supply agreement with a raw materials producer.

Chinese machinery manufacturers have adapted new technology at a rapid pace, with Haitian International just launching one factory where "it's only robots doing all the work."

With the launch of the world’s first commercially available chemically recycled PLA,Total Corbion PLA has taken a logical step towards an ‘even more sustainable offering’, according to CEO Thomas Philipon.

The fundamental changes currently sweeping the plastics industry are now being reflected in the new visual identity launched today by Plastics Europe, the pan-European association of plastics manufacturers.

The 27th Fakuma trade fair was never going to be just another plastics show.

The number of reverse vending machines that are being installed in supermarkets and other publicly accessible locations around the world continues to rise.

Card solutions provider Toppan FutureCard, a Toppan Company based in UAE, has been awarded the right to use Mastercard’s sustainability badge on its PLA and recycled PVC cards.

Although perhaps little has been heard from Ferromatik Milacron in the past three or so years, that is all about to change, said Peter Kochs,  Director Sales & Business Development at Ferromatik Milacron GmbH.

Less weight, less raw material – and the same mechanical properties? Proprietary technology for adding a microcellular structure to extruded materials developed by Promix Solutions, of Winterthur, Switzerland does precisely that, said CEO Rolf Heusser.

A new project called VinylPlus Med aims to boost the number of discarded single-use PVC medical devices that are recycled into new products that will be marketed across Europe.

A new independent lifecycle assessment has found that the use of the catalyst technology developed by UK-based Econic Technologies to produce polyols provides very considerable savings in carbon emissions compared to the traditional manufacture of these products.

Italy-based compounder Lati Industria Termoplastici has partnered with The Hemp Plastic Company, of Boulder, Colorado, USA for the distribution of The Hemp Plastic Company's line of ecological hemp blended plastics.

Plastic Energy today announced that the planned construction of advanced recycling plant near Le Havre in northern France was definitely going forward.