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For Composite Packaging Recycling, the Future is Now

(Flexpack)

December 04, 2022, ... end product is suitable for recirculation into foil applications and other packaging solutions as a replacement for virgin aluminum. Crucially, all chemicals used in the process comply with EU food-contact ...

Thinking Inside and Outside the Coating Box

(News | New Products)

October 02, 2022, ... can be single or multi-ply, coated or uncoated and can be made from virgin and/or recycled material. A folding carton doesn’t even need to look like a box in the conventional sense, with a little lateral ...

Baldwin Technology Partners With Fi-Tech to Represent Textile and Nonwoven Finishing Technologies in North America

(News | New Products)

October 02, 2022, ... contamination. Founded in 1972 and headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, Fi-Tech is well established as the leading agency and distribution firm for textile and non-woven machinery.   Its initial focus ...

Cromex Presents New Act Green® Masterbatches Range with Sustainable Solutions for Plastics at K 2022

(Upcoming Conference News)

September 23, 2022, ... has been helping the company and its customers to achieve their ESG goals. The process for obtaining the pigment does not use fossil oil and reduces CO2 emissions compared to virgin carbon black, an important ...

Saperatec to Showcase Breakthrough Delamination Approach to Composite Packaging Recycling At K Fair in Düsseldorf

(Upcoming Conference News)

August 14, 2022, ... will discuss the promising new technology’s virgin-similar recyclate results – and showcase prototypes – at Hall 9, Stand D17, a booth shared with prominent machinery manufacturer Pla.to GmbH. Saperatec ...

Sustainability Beyond Recyclability

(Flexpack)

July 04, 2022, ... polymers are reduced in size via grinding, then they are melted, pelletized and mixed with virgin resins during extrusion. Both PET-PCR from water and soda bottles, as well as PCR-PE from milk jugs are ...

AIMCAL presents 2022 Product of the Year, Technology of the Year and Sustainability Awards

(News | New Products)

May 05, 2022, ... printability and performance equal to all-virgin-fiber cards. It can accommodate magnetic stripes, scratch-off and signature panels and maintains the structural integrity needed to allow affixing to a ...

Solvay Announces Groundbreaking Solution for Recycling PVDC

(News | New Products)

September 28, 2021, ... to reintegrate the recycled polymer into future applications, meaning it can be re-used and re-blended with virgin materials – without losing or degrading its high barrier properties,” said Claire Guerrero, ...

Sabic Certified Renewable Polymers Used in New More Sustainable Delizio Coffee Capsules

(News | New Products)

June 01, 2021, ... of circular products and services. The new capsules were introduced in the market in April and replace fossil-based virgin PP. As part of its commitment to the Delizio coffee capsule project, SABIC supplies ...

PolyQuest to Expand Darlington, South Carolina Facility for the Eighth Time

(News | New Products)

May 31, 2021, ... the Darlington facility has served as the company’s flagship distribution and recycling location. Centrally located in the hub of North America’s virgin PET production with access to major railroads, railways, ...

The Value of Specialised Experience

(News | New Products)

April 26, 2021, ... is obviously oil-based, and the Petro-chemical industry is both global and volatile, so when European converters cannot buy the virgin substrate for the same price that Asian converters can deliver the ...

Dow Introduces Its First Recycled Plastic Resin for Shrink Film Applications in North America

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October 27, 2020, ... emissions and energy footprints. Other key advantages of the PCR-rich resin include: Final package performance comparable to that of packages made with 100 percent virgin resins; Sourced with recycled ...

Innovia Films Launches Encore Sustainable BOPP Films

(Flexpack)

June 01, 2020, ... the use of fossil based virgin raw materials. The Encore packaging and labelling film range will have exactly the same properties as equivalent fossil based BOPP film - high clarity and gloss, high stiffness, ...

Peregrine Machine Launches Next-Generation Modular Hybrid CI Stack Press

(News | New Products)

April 05, 2020, Peregrine Machine, a Virginia based flexographic printing and converting equipment manufacturer, recently launched the HyFlex Hybrid CI Stack Press Peregrine Machine, a Virginia based flexographic ...

European Recycling Markets Reel From Coronavirus

(News | New Products)

March 22, 2020, ... on virgin prices - with which recycled material competes - and individual customer relationships in countries such as Italy. The coronavirus has had a major impact on petrochemicals, hindering global ...

Toray Plastics (America), Inc., Opens New PEF Division Innovation Center

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March 16, 2020, Toray Plastics (America), Inc., announced that it has opened the PEF Division Innovation Center at its operations in Front Royal, Virginia. Toray Plastics (America), Inc., announced that it has opened ...

State of the Industry Report

(Nonwovens)

March 01, 2020, ... is nearly 70 percent.  A box-maker’s product is the most recycled item on the planet.” According to the AICC, 80 percent of paper mills are utilizing recovered fibers to some degree.  Any virgin fibers ...

Kerscher Succeeds Sheppard at AIMCAL

(News | New Products)

January 11, 2020, ... GA) and bachelor of science in chemical engineering with a minor in chemistry from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Blacksburg, VA). Sheppard was appointed executive director of AIMCAL ...

Flexible Packages Standing Out in 2019

(Flexpack)

December 11, 2019, ... collaborated with its customer JUSTIN’S. Utilizing a food-contact FDA-compliant structure, this snack pouch reduces its reliance on virgin resin by using 40 percent recycled plastic content in the sealant ...

PPC Announces Winners of 2019 Paperboard Packaging Competition

(News | New Products)

October 27, 2019, ... sustainability than ever before. These redesigned smoke detector cartons from WestRock address that concern—and then some. The switch from a fully enclosed, virgin PET blistered clamshell to the NatraLock® ...