Plastic waste desecrating beaches and rivers or oozing out of the ruptured belly of a dead fish – at the moment, these disturbing images seem to be ubiquitous. Consequently, the image of plastics has never been as negative as it is today,…

PureCycle Technologies, is announcing it has partnered with global industrial manufacturer, Milliken & Company, and the world’s largest food and beverage company, Nestlé S.A., as it moves forward with plans to open its first plant to…

Orion Engineered Carbons S.A., a worldwide supplier of specialty and high-performance Carbon Black, today announced the following changes in its executive management team: • Carlos Quinones is appointed Senior Vice President, Global…

• Specialty thermoplastics help reduce vehicle and consumer product weight, leading to improved fuel efficiency and higher performance • Expansion increases global manufacturing capacity of Santoprene by 25 percent • Two new production…

In 2018, the WITTMANN Group again increased its sales figure compared to the previous year and thus continued its growth. Since the end of the year, however, the order situation has been showing first signs of slowing down. The WITTMANN…

SABIC today 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. By chemically…

Archroma, a global leader in color and specialty chemicals towards sustainable solutions, has launched Appretan NTR, a break-through water-based textile coating binder based on renewable natural ingredients. After the well reported…

Recyclate Initiative at PLMA trade show in Amsterdam The figures are nothing short of alarming. By 2050 plastic will outweigh fish in the world's oceans if every year another nine million tons of plastic trash find their way to the sea…

Applied Market Information LLC (AMI) is excited to release the program for Multilayer Flexible Packaging 2019, taking place June 25-26, 2019 at the Chicago Marriott O’Hare, Chicago, Illinois, USA and sponsored by Ingenia Polymers.…

Technical knowledge based plastics compounder Luxus has as part of a consortium won an £840,462 Innovate UK grant to develop a novel process to remove retained odour from post-consumer recycled plastics. The aim of this new 30 month…