Companies & Associations
Aveda packaging executive Edmond Irizarry: "You can be both sustainable and aspirational and that's the journey we're on today from a packaging point of view."
For recovery and reuse of plastics to advance, it will need help from people all along the lifecycle of products, including plastic processors, brand owners, consumers and the recyclers themselves.
The Verbund plant will launch with an engineering plastics compounding production capable of turning out 60,000 metric tons per year.
The U.S. plastics tooling sector should benefit from lower steel and aluminum prices, but experts are taking a wait-and-see attitude on the impact of lifting tariffs from Canada and Mexico.
General Motors Co. has set its price on a breakthrough. The GMC Sierra with GM's new carbon fiber pickup box will start at nearly $67,000, the company said May 17.
German machinery maker KraussMaffei Group GmbH is building a new plant in China that will double its capacity there, as the company expects to see China play a larger role both as a source of research and as a machinery export base.
German machinery maker Arburg is building a new assembly plant for production of its large Allrounder injection molding machines and other turnkey systems.
ExxonMobil Corp. has completed expansion of its specialty elastomers plant in Newport, Wales.
Dutch chemicals company Royal DSM has entered into a partnership with San Francisco-based startup, Origin, to develop materials for that company's Open Additive Production platform.
A new study claims growing use of plastics is having a devastating impact through climate change, but a trade group representing the industry counters with an exact opposite view.
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