circular recycling

Chemical firm Sabic has introduced its LNP Elcrin iQ portfolio of polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) compounded resins derived from recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) to support the circular economy and help reduce plastic waste. products also offer a smaller cradle-to-gate environmental footprint than virgin PBT resin, as measured by Cumulative Energy Demand…

Italian chemical producer, Versalis (Eni), and Montello S.p.A., an Italian company focused on post-consumer plastic recovery and recycling technologies are jointly developing a new range of polyethylene (PE) products made from recycled packaging. Advances in consolidated technological and commercial expertise in the PE industry has enabled the two companies to…

Current developments in the automotive industry are being made possible with new engineering plastics materials that meet durability, lightweight and cost efficient requirements, says Angelica Buan in this report. The diamond stone, believed to be the hardest material on earth, has been revered for centuries for its “indestructible” properties. Times…

Plastic waste desecrating beaches and rivers or oozing out of the ruptured belly of a dead fish has given rise to a negative image of plastics. Unsurprisingly, therefore, that the circular economy is one of the leading issues at this year’s K2019 trade fair, to be held in Düsseldorf, Germany,…

The European Bioplastics Association says that a study titled “Environmental deterioration of biodegradable, oxo-biodegradable, compostable, and conventional plastic carrier bags in the sea, soil, and open-air over a 3-year period” carried out by Imogen E. Napper and Richard C. Thompson of the University of Plymouth, whose results were announced yesterday,…

AIMPLAS, the Plastics Technology Centre, is participating in FOAM2FOAM, the objective of which is to obtain raw materials from polyurethane waste that until now ended up in landfills were mechanically recycled to obtain low value-added products. Polyurethane is a material that has many forms, including flexible and rigid, as well…

Following in pursuit of plastic roads built already in India, US chemical firm Dow and DEEP C are to build the first road using recycled plastics at the DEEP C Industrial Complex in Haiphong City in Vietnam. The project aims to divert post-use flexible packaging from becoming litter or entering…

Ube Industries’s subsidiary, UBE Corporation Europe S.A.U. (UCE), has acquired Spanish compounder Repol that operates a compounding business in Europe using nylon 6, nylon 66, polypropylene, polyacetal, and other resin raw materials. These products are mainly used for automobiles but are also broadly used in industrial materials and for the electrical and electronics…

Boasting over 3,000 exhibitors from more than 60 countries, this year’s plastics show K2019, scheduled to take place in Düsseldorf, Germany, from 16-23 October 2019, is fully booked, says the organiser Messe Düsseldorf GmbH. K will occupy the entire Düsseldorf exhibition grounds with some 175,000 sq m of net exhibition…

With the recent news of Ineos Styrolution’s innovation of polystyrene (PS) chemical recycling, US firm Agilyx, which developed the first system capable of recycling PS waste into styrene monomer for use in new PS products, is also working towards the circularity of PS. It recently worked with Styrenics Circular Solutions (SCS),…