Heather Caliendo Senior Editor

Heather Caliendo serves as Senior Editor for Plastics Technology magazine where she writes and edits feature stories for the recycling and 3D printing sectors. Heather has been covering the global plastics industry since 2012, with a specific focus on end-market trends and sustainability. She started her career writing about aerospace and technology at The Journal Record, a daily business newspaper in Oklahoma. She received her bachelor of arts in journalism from the University of Oklahoma. PRESS KIT

sustainability

Braskem Invests in Nexus Circular to Increase Advanced Recycling Efforts

Braskem has stated targets for growing the company's recycled content product portfolio to sales of 300,000 tons by 2025 and 1 million tons by 2030.  

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sustainability

Agilyx and Virgin Group Partner on Air Fuel Produced from Plastic Waste

The first waste-to-fuel location is planned to be in the US, with an aspiration to roll-out similar plants in other countries, including the UK.

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Stratasys Donates 3D Printers to University of Minnesota Medical School

3D printing allows physicians, researchers, and medical device product developers to iterate, create, and test existing and new medical devices in anatomic models that mimic actual anatomy and pathology.

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Captive Molder Goes AM Route for Short-Run Project

Pivoting from injection molding to additive manufacturing helped a maker of automotive wire routers save about $1 million in project costs and eight weeks of lead time.  

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sustainability

Solvent-Based Inks Boost PET Recycling

Sun Chemical’s SunSpectro SolvaWash solvent-based inks allow higher quality and yield of recycled PET from bottles.  

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ZAGG Partners with Eastman to Produce Smartphone Cases Made with Tritan Renew

Eastman’s Tritan Renew copolyester will be incorporated into ZAGG’s Gear4 protective smartphone cases.  

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sustainability

Injection Molder Sees Huge Growth in Recycling

Wittmann Battenfeld's material-handling systems and engineering support helped Monoflo International reprocess more than 60 million lb of plastics over 10 years.    

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Polycarbin Launches New Recycled Laboratory Plastic Line

Polycarbin has brought to market a line of sustainable, circular economy laboratory products.   

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Recycling

Honeywell, Avangard to Build New Advanced Recycling Plant in Texas

The planned advanced recycling plant is expected to have the capacity to transform 30,000 metric tons of mixed waste plastics into Honeywell recycled polymer feedstock per year.  

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Carbon Launches New M-Series Printers

The printers have a wide range of high-performance materials tailored for applications across industries, including automotive, life sciences, dental, consumer products, and industrial.  

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sustainability

Plastic Bank Stops 2 Billion Plastic Bottles from Entering the Ocean

In reaching this milestone, the social enterprise worked with more than 30,000 collectors across the Philippines, Indonesia, Brazil, and Egypt.

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