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European thermoforming conference highlights cooperative paths to process and regulatory challenges

50th SPE Auto Innovation Awards highlight the indelible impact of plastics on component development

Industry turns to monomaterial packaging for circular economy needs.

Sabic has announced the launch of certified circular polycarbonate (PC) resin and blends made from the upcycling of post-consumer mixed plastics. The company says the development is an industry first.   The certified circular PC is produced in an advanced recycling…

Laws mandating extended producer responsibility for packaging are gaining momentum

Granulators are low-tech outliers in the factory of the future, but advanced controls will make them more effective

Engel’s new two-stage process plasticizes recycled flake, increasing circularity and reducing CO2 emissions

The process, also called advanced recycling, could bring circular sustainability to plastics if implemented on a large scale  Momentum is building for chemical recycling. This technology, also known as advanced recycling, uses various processes to convert plastics waste into chemicals…

HP, the automaker and vendors solve circular challenge by creating a closed-loop—and valuable—materials stream Thanks to the benefits of additive manufacturing/3D printing, this market segment is predicted to quadruple in size by 2030, increasing from $12 billion in 2020 to…

The writer and humorist Mark Twain observed that “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.” Twain was speaking in the 19th century. In the 21st century, a similar thought can be expressed about numbers,…