On the first day of K 2022, German minister Christiane Rholeder, a top deputy in Germany's environment ministry, kicked off the show by noting the severe disruptions in energy costs and supply chain's facing Europe's plastics industry, including from the war in Ukraine.
- As the plastics industry transitions into molding more recyclable bio-based materials, machine builder and Oyonnax, France-based Billion SAS is showing processors what's possible.
- DuPont’s Mobility and Materials unit is seeing “a huge push” on sustainability, according to Glob- al Research and Development Vice President Scott Collick.
- In a presentation at the September International Colloquium Plastics Technology 2022 organized by the Aachen, Germany-based IKV Institute of Plastics Processing, Jörg Strohhäcker, head of R&D at Kassel, Germany-based pressurized gas container producer Hexagon Purus GmbH, talked about challenges in the development of type 4 pressure vessels for high density hydrogen gas storage.
- With the launch of two new 3D printing technologies, plastics machinery manufacturer KraussMaffei Technologies GmbH is adding a fourth pillar to its current portfolio of plastics production options.
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