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Reclaiming scrap from production and from consumers to make new plastic parts.

ICYMI: Top Sustainability Articles of 2024
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ICYMI: Top Sustainability Articles of 2024

A look back at the year’s top articles on recycling innovations, sustainability strategies, and circular economy practices in the plastics industry.

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Postconsumer

Looking to Run PCR on a Single Screw? Here’s What to Keep in Mind

Just drop it in and mix it up? Sorry, there’s a lot more to it than that. Here is some of what you need to consider.  

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Postindustrial

Avoid Four Common Traps In Granulation

Today, more than ever, granulation is an important step in the total production process. Our expert explains a few of the many common traps to avoid when thinking about granulators

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sustainability

General-Purpose Screws on the Comeback?

They are being specified more often for recycling applications to increase flexibility. But there is still no such thing as a GP screw and recyclers need to consider other processing approaches.

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Postindustrial

Recycling: Expanding 'Circularity' through Advanced Recycling Technologies

Recycling and achieving circularity for materials is at the core of the plastics industry’s evolving sustainable business model. Advanced technologies will play a big role.

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Postconsumer

How to Ensure Reliable Feeder Performance When Handling PCR

Processors are being challenged to incorporate more recycled material into their products. Yet there are both economical and technical obstacles to achieving this objective—feeding among them. The design of your feeding equipment and the advantages that it will offer to your process will be more important than ever.

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Extrusion

Extrusion: Evaluating Screw Design for Multi-Material Recycling

Since many plastic products are made of a combination of materials with very different melting points, careful consideration must be given to designing screws when it comes time to recycle these products.

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Latest Recycling News And Updates

Recycling

Bunting FF Drawer Magnet Redesign Is Compatible With More Machines

Bunting announced a new version of its FF Drawer Magnet designed for greater flexibility and shorter lead times.

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Industrial Research Project to Advance Mechanical Recycling of Flexible Polyethylene

The RWTH Aachen University’s Plastics Institute will coordinate an industrial project titled Loopcycling.

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Postconsumer

POGS Chooses Novodur ECO ABS for Childrens Headphones

Manufacturer of audio equipment for children will use INEOS Styrolution ABS with 50% recycled content.

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Recycling

Lindner Recyclingtech Founds Subsidiary in India

Lindner Recyclingtech Bharat will seek to meet growing need for waste solutions in India.

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Trinseo Starts Up PMMA Depolymerization Facility

The Italian facility’s chemical recycling process returns acrylics, including PMMA sheets, to monomer methyl methacrylate (MMA)

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Recycling

Kirk Winstead Appointed President of TRIA America

Winstead brings over 38 years of experience in auxiliary plastics equipment.

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Sirmax Adapts Integrated Recycling Approach to US Supply Conditions

Integrating compounding and recycling to leverage untapped postindustrial recycling feedstocks.

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Recycling

Building a Future With Sustainable Compounds

With roots in recycling, Star Plastics produces engineering thermoplastic compounds to meet performance and environmental goals.

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processor's edge

Optical Sorting for Color Flexibility in Recycled Plastics

Aaron Industries added optical sorting to its operation, expanding capabilities to meet the color needs of customers.

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Postindustrial

Extrusion Technology Extended to Injection, Enabling Up to 100% Regrind Usage

Twin-barrel (shot-pot) press can handle more regrind, offers other benefits to molders.

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Blow Molding

NPE2024 Wrap-Up: Sustainability Dominates Show Floor News

Across all process types, sustainability was a big theme at NPE2024. But there was plenty to see in automation and artificial intelligence as well.  

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NPE

Breaking News From NPE2024

Here is a firsthand report of news in injection molding, extrusion, blow molding and recycling not previously covered.  

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FAQ: Recycling

The American Chemistry Council (ACC) defines advanced recycling as, “several different processes that use existing and emerging technologies that return post-use plastics to their basic chemical building blocks for creating a versatile mix of new plastics, chemicals, fuels, and other products.” The phrase “advanced recycling” accomplishes two things, it denotes that these are technologies that go deeper into the polymer than the mechanical recycling process. It also reinforces the concept that these processes, while unfamiliar to the usual recycle value chain, are indeed a form of recycling.

What type of testing equipment should recyclers have in their lab?

If they have not already, recyclers should consider investing in the following:

  • Melt Indexers

  • Moisture analyzer

  • Near-infrared Spectroscopy

  • X-ray fluorescence

  • Oven

  • Automatic tensile tester

  • Blender

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