Exploring the: Scrap Reclaim Zone
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- Eliminate Dust, Fines and Longs For Better Regrind Quality
- Considering the high cost of resin and heightened concerns for product quality, it is surprising that so little attention is given to the impact of regrind quality on plastics processing.
Article Published: 2/1/2007
- 'As Good as New' Chain Extender Restores Reclaimed Resins
- A new additive can re-link polymer chains in reclaimed PET, nylon, and polycarbonate to revive degraded properties.
Article Published: 2/1/2007
- Wellman Quits PET Recycling
- Wellman Inc., Shrewsbury, N.J., announced that it would permanently close its flagship PET recycling and fiber production facility in Johnsonville, S.C., by the end of this month.
Article Published: 11/6/2006
- Global Company, Local Creativity
- Magna International, Inc. may be a global Tier One automotive parts supplier with over 220 manufacturing divisions and more than 82,000 employees, but it doesn’t stifle creativity at the individual plant level.
Article Published: 11/1/2006
- New Extrusion Process Recycles Food-Grade PET
- PTP Plastic Technologies and Products bv in Prague, Czech Republic, seeks to license a reactive extrusion process to upgrade clean post-consumer PET bottle flake into food-grade PET for new bottles or film.
Article Published: 8/30/2006
- NPE 2006 News Wrap-Up: Recycling and Scrap Reclaim
- NPE was full of new equipment and systems for recapturing valuable in-plant scrap and post-consumer/post-industrial plastic waste. Recovery of PET packaging and film or fiber waste were particular areas of emphasis, as were lots of new granulators, ...
Article Published: 7/1/2006
- PET Reclaimer Moves Downstream
- When Nadim Bahou headed Envipco’s West Coast business of granulating PET bottles through “reverse vending machines” in the early 1990s, he saw there was a shortage of PET grinding capacity in the region.
Article Published: 7/1/2006
- PolyOne Offers Recycling Option
- PolyOne Corp., Cleveland, has teamed up with Greenpack Inc., Parkersburg, W.Va., to offer PolyOne’s customers a no-cost program to recycle their industrial packaging.
Article Published: 6/2/2006
- What to See at NPE 2006: Recycling and Scrap Reclaim
- Recycling and reclamation are once again hot technologies—this time because of high resin prices.
Article Published: 6/1/2006
- What's Different About This NPE
- Several new attractions will set this year’s Big Show apart from previous events:
--Make room for rubber: For the first time, the plastics show will have a TPE/Rubber Pavilion, co-sponsored by the Society of the Plastics Industry (SPI) and the Ru...
Article Published: 5/3/2006
