Nov 23,2011
Bottles made of PET are recycled to reuse the material out of which they are made and to reduce the amount of waste going to landfills. In many countries, PET plastics are coded with the resin identification code number "1" inside ...
Nov 23,2011
1.Plastic crusher and power unit to be securely installed. If you need long-term fixed plastic crusher operation, it should be fixed on the basis of the cement; if you need plastic crusher mobile operations unit to be installed in ...
Nov 22,2011
Blow molding (also known as blow moulding or blow forming) is a manufacturing process by which hollow plastic parts are formed. In general, there are three main types of blow molding: extrusion blow molding, injection blow ...
Nov 21,2011
Plastic recycling is the process of recovering scrap or waste plastics and reprocessing the material into useful products, sometimes completely different in form from their original state. For instance, this could mean melting ...
Nov 21,2011
At Sumitomo (SHI) Demag Plastics Machinery GmbH’s open house event in Wiehe facility in September, the company’s process development specialist André Luck described the ActiveLock and ActiveFlowBalance systems ...
Nov 18,2011
In Sino-Japanese plastics trade today, almost all of the investment flows from Japan toward China. But injection press maker Haitian International Holdings Ltd. is reversing that, at least in a small way, opening up a technical ...
Nov 18,2011
As a phase-two expansion of its PMMA plant in Shanghai, German specialty polymers supplier Evonik Industries AG has doubled its production capacity for Plexiglas-branded PMMA molding compounds to 40,000 metric tons. The move ...
Nov 17,2011
Total Petrochemicals USA Inc. announced Nov. 11 that it will permanently shut down a 200 million pound per year polystyrene unit at its Carville, La., styrenics site. The line has been idle since the second half of 2010. ...
Nov 17,2011
Ford Motor Co.’s 2013 Escape model has lighter, slimmer seats – but the company notes that “longer commutes cause American drivers to spend more time in their vehicles and have more back pain,” so that ...
Nov 16,2011
The Society of the Plastics Industry Inc. believes that NPE 2012 can avoid a repeat of the last show in 2009, when several big Japanese machinery firms threatened to pull out of the event during the worst of the global financial ...
Nov 15,2011
Orders for industrial robots were up 41 percent through the first nine months of 2011 — as North America-based robot companies are on target for one of their best years ever, according to the Robotic Industries Association. ...
Nov 11,2011
Japan Production of Plastics Products in 2011 Source: THE JAPAN PLASTICS INDUSTRY FEDERATION
Nov 11,2011
Monterey is on its way to joining the growing list of California communities with bans on single-use plastic carryout bags, and its neighbor on the Monterey Peninsula -- the city of Pacific Grove -- also is looking into whether a ...
Nov 11,2011
Roidec India Chemicals Pvt Ltd. has introduced a biodegradable alternative to conventional plastic packaging. According to the company, the material creates a moisture barrier and is heat sealable. Roidec, a Gurgoan-based ...
Nov 10,2011
The European Organisation for Packaging and the Environment (Europen) has published a green paper on packaging and sustainability. The document, which reflects the opinions of the global packaging chain, concludes that packaging ...
Nov 10,2011
Pushed by the record-high yen and economic problems at home, Japan’s large plastic machinery manufacturing industry is accelerating its investment in lower-cost countries, expanding both in China and elsewhere in Asia. Japan ...
Nov 09,2011
Roidec India Chemicals Pvt Ltd. has introduced a biodegradable alternative to conventional plastic packaging. According to the company, the material creates a moisture barrier and is heat sealable. Roidec, a Gurgoan-based ...
Nov 08,2011
Fortis Plastics LLC appears poised to shut down before the end of the year, announcing plans to close its corporate office and molding plant in South Bend. The news comes just days after the company announced plans to close its ...
Nov 08,2011
Commodity resin prices are tumbling throughout North America, with polypropylene experiencing the steepest drop -- a 14-cent dive since Oct. 1. Regional prices for polyethylene, PVC, polystyrene and ABS also are down in recent ...
Nov 08,2011
The Nor’easter that rattled New England over the weekend cut power and caused more than a few companies to ponder how to keep communications open when disaster strikes. The Saturday night storm dumped an icy, heavy snow on ...
