Exploring the: Recycling Zone
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- EXTRUSION & COMPOUNDING: Five-Layer Film Structures Set to Supplant Three Layers?
- In blown film, equipment and material suppliers have come together to push five-layer technology into non-barrier applications previously held by three-layer films.
Article Published: 12/23/2010
- Recycling & Scrap Reclaim at NPE 2003
- Most of the news to be found at NPE in post-consumer recycling comes from Europe and concerns direct recycling of PET flake into sheet without repelletizing.
Article Published: 6/7/2010
- Recycling Conference Shows Off New Ways To Enhance Recycled Plastics
- News from the recent SPE Global Plastics Environmental Conference in Detroit includes lots of technological “firsts.” Among them: electronic “noses” to sniff out chemical contaminants in reclaim; long-fiber molded parts made with auto shredder waste...
Article Published: 6/7/2010
- Entrepreneur Puts Mixed-Polymer Recycling On Track to Success
- Polywood Inc. in Edison, N.J., uses mixed recycled plastics to make fiber-reinforced structural profiles for railroad ties, I-beams, and decks.
Article Published: 6/7/2010
- Recycling at K 2001: New & Better Ways to Reclaim PET
- Last fall's K 2001 show in Dusseldorf brought out new advances in bottle-to-bottle PET recycling.
Article Published: 6/1/2010
- The Fine Art Of Separation
- If you need ground plastic waste separated from metal particles, or plastic flakes separated by color or density, Butler-MacDonald Inc. is up to the job.
Article Published: 5/28/2010
- Twin-Screw Demo System for Sheet Extrusion from Undried PET
- Leistritz has installed ZSE-27 and ZSE-50 Maxx twin-screw extrusion systems in its Somerville, N.J., process laboratory to demonstrate the energy savings possible by reprocessing undried PET in-line with direct sheet extrusion.
Article Published: 4/23/2010
- Recycle Pricing: RPET Market is Hot, Prices Are Soaring
- The recycled PET market was red-hot in February and March with Chinese export demand picking up on the West Coast and new domestic recycling plants competing for that same material.
Article Published: 4/1/2010
- Sustainability Drives Innovation at Leading RPET Processors
- Two Southern California processors have boldly gone where no one has ever gone before.
Article Published: 1/1/2010
- Make Polyolefins RF Weldable Without Additives
- Up to now, radio-frequency (RF) welding or sealing of films, foams, and fabrics has been limited mainly to polar resins with high dielectric loss factors—particularly flexible PVC and TPU.
Article Published: 12/23/2009
