Packaging
Dow Launches its First Recycled Resin for Shrink Film Applications
The recycled plastic resin is designed specifically for retail and logistic shrink film applications.
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Additives: Special Stabilizer Boosts Rate of Scrap Reused in Polyolefin Films
Clariant’s latest addition to the AddWorks family of stabilizers allows for the addition of more post-manufacturing waste to virgin polyolefin resins for food-contact film applications.
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Materials: Home-Compostable Biopolymer Alternative to Single-Use Plastics
Celanese’s new BlueRidge cellulosic for extrusion and injection molding aimed at hard-to-recycle single-use plastics.
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Danimer Scientific's PHA Chosen by Bacardi to Replace PET
Bacardi opts to transition to 100% biodegradable PHA by 2023.
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Protolabs Addresses How to Survive a Pandemic with Digital Manufacturing
Protolabs survey results examine product development and the supply chain.
Read MoreMerging Sustainability and Innovation at Sealed Air
Ron Cotterman, vice president of innovation and sustainability at Sealed Air, talks about the company’s recent investment in Plastic Energy, an advanced recycling company.
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Innovative Recycler Sets Sights on PET Thermoforms
Green Impact Plastics becomes first to focus on thermoforms in tray-to-tray recycling venture.
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Additives: High-Performance Organic Cavitating Masterbatch for White-Opaque BOPP Packaging
Ampacet’s new Pearl 36 cavitating masterbatch for BOPP film boasts high efficiency and outstanding film aesthetics and opacity.
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Hot Runners: Valve Gate Nozzle Offers Greater Wear Resistance
Husky’s Ultra Helix 250 T2 targets small parts weights with difficult-to-access gate locations, promising less maintenance and more longevity.
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NYCOA Gets Green Light from FDA for its 2012 Nylon Film Copolymer
Manufacturer of specialty engineered nylon polymers Nylon Corporation of America (NYCOA)), Manchester, N.H., recently received Food Contact Substance approval from the FDA for its novel nylon film copolymer known as 2012, to be used as a component of multilayer, single use food packaging constructions, (excluding contact with infant formula and human milk). Said v.p. of business development and R&D Jonathan McEuen, “NYCOA has decades of experience developing and commercializing specialty nylon resin chemistries, including nylon materials used for industrial film applications.
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