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SENOPLAST: Ground-breaking ceremony for new production facility in China / Plant expansion in Mexico
19/06/2019
Semi-finished products specialist Senoplast has started the construction of its new production facility in China. The Austrian company announced that the ground-breaking ceremony for the 4,000 m² plant in Suzhou near Shanghai took place ...MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL ADVANCED MATERIALS: Acquisition of US stock shapes manufacturer APT / Synergies in injection moulding and extrusion
19/06/2019
Thermoplastic materials manufacturer Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials has acquired Advanced Polymer Technologies, a producer of engineered plastic stock shapes for machined parts. Financial details of the transaction were not ...EVONIK: Two new precipitated silica grades launched / Used as anti-blocking additives in films
19/06/2019
Evonik has introduced Spherilex 60 AB and Spherilex 30 AB two new grades of precipitated silica for use as anti-blocking agents in manufacturing plastic films. Anti-blocking agents help facilitate film winding operations and ...POLYMERS FOR EUROPE ALLIANCE: "Best Polymer Producers Awards for Europe 2019": Nine producers awarded / Vynova wins overarching prize for customer communication / Ceremony at EuPC conference in Berlin
18/06/2019
Processing customers have chosen the best European plastics suppliers in 2019. During the gala dinner of this year's EuPC annual conference on 13 June 2019 in Berlin / Germany, the Polymers for Europe Alliance announced the nine ...PLASTICS AND ENVIRONMENT: International research project on microplastics in the ocean / Micro-FATE starts with expedition in the Pacific
18/06/2019
The Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research at the Alfred-Wegener-Institut has started a five-week expedition across the Pacific, launching the Micro-FATE project with the goal of researching the occurrence and fate of ...HAITIAN: Plastics machinery facility opened in South Carolina / Focus on automotive and white goods sector
18/06/2019
Haitian's US subsidiary Absolute Haitian has expanded its North American operations with the opening of a new production unit in Moncks Corner, South Carolina / USA near Charleston. A grand opening celebration with a ribbon-cutting ...SIBUR: Russia's first polymers R&D centre opened / Cooperation agreements signed to develop new grades and recycling processes / Project investments exceed EUR 30m
17/06/2019
Russian petrochemical giant Sibur has opened the countrys first polymers R&D centre at the Skolkovo Innovation Centre in Moscow. PolyLabs key priority, said Sibur, will be to promote the use of polymers to manufacture existing ...PLASTICS RECYCLING EUROPE: PRE offers sorting guidance / More standardisation
17/06/2019
In an effort to increase the volume and improve the quality of packaging materials available for reprocessing, Plastics Recyclers Europe has called for improvements in sorting practices. To assist collectors, the organisation ...PENNON GROUP: New plastics recycling facility to be fueled with non-recyclable plastics waste
14/06/2019
UK-based Pennon Group has announced a project to power its new GBP 65m plastics recycling plant using electricity produced from plastics waste. The company says this move will create a true circular economy energy park at its site in ...PLASTIC FANTASTIC: Swimming the Garbage Patch Redux?
14/06/2019
There are special commemoration or activist, if you will calendars for those who celebrate holidays as they fall. If youd looked at one on 8 June, youd have seen it was World Ocean Day. But even without a calendar you couldnt ...