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Krones: PET recycling material certified as food-grade

10.03.2006 - Krones recycling pilot plant now up and running For some months now, Krones AG (www.Krones.com) has been offering a compact-size PET-bottle-to-bottle recycling facility for bottlers and converters, designed to produce food-grade PET from used PET material. The prestigious Fraunhofer Institute for...

IK: Position paper about the potential of bioplastics presented

08.03.2006 - Over the last years bioplastics have aroused much interest in politics and the public, especially under environmental aspects. In its new position paper “Bioplastics Products – Chances and Potentials” the IK Industrieverband Kunststoffverpackungen e.V. (www.kunststoffverpackungen.de) answers frequent...

IK: Plastics packaging again shows growth

08.03.2006 - In 2005 producers of plastics packaging were further able to increase their production levels. The IK Industrieverband Kunststoffverpackungen e. V. (Association of Plastics Packaging Producers, (www.kunststoffverpackungen.de) has announced that the industry it represents earned 10.5 billion Euros last...

J&A Plastics: New nanocomposites for packaging

07.03.2006 - What good is a top-quality product if it does not reach the end-consumer at the promised quality standard For this reason, modern packaging must not only protect against damage and soiling, but also secure against loss of vitamins, aromas, moisture, micro-organisms, etc. Furthermore, it must be easy...

Weima: New secondary granulator for processing of alternative fuels

03.03.2006 - Dutch alternative fuel processor produces high throughput with the new Weima secondary granulator, further demand and increase in turnover expected in 2006, customer support team strengthened, new primary granulator for alternative fuel processing The Dutch company VAR B.V. (www.var.nl) in Twello,...

EuPR PET Working Group: Pet Bottles should not be made from blends

01.03.2006 - EuPR Working group PET (www.eupr.org) and their associated members will in the future have to discriminate certain PET polymer blends in bottles in order to safeguard the total value of the PET recycling stream. By design, PET bottles use different polymers for their component parts. For example...

hamos: Separation of contamination from ground PVC window material

24.02.2006 - Clean PVC regrind from recycling of PVC window profiles is a valuable raw material, that can be used again for the production of PVC windows. But contamination such as by rubber from seals, polyamide, plasticised PVC, etc are problematic. Such contamination can influence the possibilities of using...

Dow to sell Superabsorbent Products Business to Degussa

15.02.2006 - Dow (www.dow.com) announced today that it has signed an agreement to sell its Superabsorbent Products (SAP) business to Degussa AG (www.degussa.de). Close of the transaction is dependent upon regulatory approvals. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. "It was becoming increasingly...

Basell plans to close its plant in Pernis, Netherlands in mid-2007

14.02.2006 - As part of an ongoing review of the company’s manufacturing assets to assess their long-term viability, Basell is planning to close its 260 KT per year LIPP polypropylene technology plant in Pernis, The Netherlands by the middle of 2007. “It is vital that we continuously look closely at all of our...

EuPR: Annual General Assembly 2005 - Elections 2006-2008

06.02.2006 - EuPR, the European Plastics Recyclers Association (www.eupr.org), held its Annual General Assembly on 2 December 2005 in Brussels. During this meeting, elections were held for the new Management Committee. The following people were (re-)elected to the Management Committee the 2006-2008 period: Mr Bernard...

Basell to increase PP and PE prices in Europe

01.02.2006 - Basell (www.basell.com) announced that it will increase prices by € 100 per tonne on all polypropylene and polyethylene grades sold in Europe effective February 1. “This increase is necessary due to the continued climb in crude oil prices since the start of the year,” said Werner Breuers, president...

Rhodia Polyamide: Price Increase for Adipic Acid

19.01.2006 - Rhodia Polyamide has announced a price rise for Adipic Acid effective immediately. The new price reflects an increase of 130 € / MT in Europe and 150 USD / MT in Asia. Underlying this need for price adjustment is the unprecedented rise in the costs of energy, particularly gas, and raw materials such...

EuPC: Second Conference on REACH

10.01.2006 - Concerns of plastics converters, recyclers and compounders confirmed On 14 December 2005, EuPC (European Plastics Converters, www.eupc.org) held its second conference on the future EU Regulation on REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restrictions of Chemicals). In his welcome statement...

LEGO: Tool factory in Switzerland sold

05.01.2006 - The Swiss factory LEGO Werkzeugbau Steinhausen will remain, as it has been taken over by new owners as per 1st December 2005. The new owners consist of a Swiss consortium, which all together has the following competences: Tool manufacturer, finance/accounting and Lean management. The people behind...

FKuR: Novel transparent PLA/Polyester film for fine packaging design

21.12.2005 - The "Nature-Compounds" product range from FKuR Kunststoff GmbH (www.fkur.de) has been extended with the new Bio-Flex 467F product, an universally usable, biologically decomposable granulate for use in production of film. The advantages of the new formulation lie in the good properties in the film application,...

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