Sustainability
Sustainability
As a reflection of both inventive activity, and the capacity to transform that activity into economic gains, patent filings are a useful indicator to assess the inventive performance in general.
Recycled content is being used in several new materials at the Ohio-based materials supplier.
Jean Sirois: "We're making better use of what's available and getting up to prime standards with recycled material. The auto space is providing opportunities with electric vehicles, and we're also seeing opportunities in electronics and portability."
The Italian firm will add extrusion lines in Indiana, Italy and Poland during 2022 as part of an $11 million investment.
Way2K is a series of interviews in the lead-up to K2022. Here, Peter von Hoffmann, General Manager Business Unit Engineering Plastics Applications at Coperion, talks about ‘closing the loop’.
An annual report card from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation said use of virgin plastics by major global brands appears to have peaked, as companies make progress on voluntary pledges.
The Feddersen Group has obtained ISCC Plus and REDcert certification for a number of the companies in the group. Both Akro-Plastic GmbH - including its branches Af-Color and Bio-Fed - PolyComp GmbH were recently granted ISCC PLUS and REDcert² certification.
Upcoming sustainabilty goals will require the use of both technologies to supply recycled plastics, officials from both PepsiCo Inc. and Unilever plc said.
In a statement released today by Borealis, the company announced that in partnership with LanzaTech, a company that has developed proprietary gas fermentation technology to produce ethanol from greenhouse gasses, and Swiss sports brand On, it has successfully developed a new, more sustainable foam called CleanCloud for use in shoe bottoms.
Analysts at an industry conference said that chemical recycling will still have a high-cost position compared to virgin resin and mechanical recycling in 2030, but could be low cost by 2050.
The construction of a new facility that will produce biogas from the treatment of wastewater from Palsgaard’s production, was officially launched during a ground-breaking ceremony held on Tuesday, 26 October.
COVID-19 impacts are disrupting domestic recycled PET supplies at a time when the market is clamoring for more of the material.
As COVID-19 panic wanes, a group of takeout food companies and logistics partners are once again trying to reduce waste by encouraging or at least accepting reusable containers for coffee or sandwiches — and discovering renewed interest in their environmental goals
Hamburg, Germany-based Mocom was spun off from Albis Plastics, a leading European resin distributor, in October 2020. Both of those businesses — along with recycler Wipag — are part of Otto Krahn Group.