Exploring the: Scrap Reclaim Zone
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- Conference Report: Bioplastics Are Breaking Out of Their 'Green' Niche
- The excitement in the air of the recent Innovation Takes Root conference was a sense of arrival.
Article Published: 3/27/2012
- Extrusion & Compounding at NPE: More Output, More Flexibility, Less Energy
- There won't be many blown-film lines running, but there is still much in the way of innovation going on in extrusion and compounding.
Article Published: 2/23/2012
- Rotary Batch Mixers Help Boost In-House Recycling
- While sustainability is a relatively new term in plastics, rotary batch mixing is an old warhorse in many processing operations.
Article Published: 5/31/2011
- Extrusion Vet Guthrie Supplies Recycling Equipment
- Long-time extrusion industry executive Sandy Guthrie has started his own recycling equipment company.
Article Published: 4/25/2011
- K 2010 Preview, Auxiliaries: Equipment of All Types Debuts This Month at K 2010
- From materials drying, feeding, and blending to process heating/cooling, scrap reclaiming, testing, welding, and decorating—the K 2010 show this month in Dusseldorf, Germany, will have news in all categories of auxiliary equipment.
Article Published: 1/3/2011
- 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
- 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
- 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
- A Recycling 'First' for Food Containers
- The Bottle Box is a new clamshell food container made of 100% post-consumer PET beverage bottles.
Article Published: 11/25/2009
- Largest PET Recycling Plant Coming in 2010
- WEB EXCLUSIVE PET resin and fiber producer DAK Americas, LLC, Charlotte, N.C., and leading carpet producer Shaw Industries Group, Inc., Dalton, Ga., have created a new joint venture to recycle PET from post-consumer bottles.
Article Published: 5/29/2009
