Film & Sheet
Results of a study that actually started five years ago now show enhanced sorting technology allows plastic films to be recaptured at material recovery facilities, a difficult task using the typical approach.
A Michigan-based plastics film processor sees the production of medical gowns as both a business opportunity and a civic duty.
The investment will create more than 340 jobs in the next eight years in Milton, Wis.
More retailers are launching pilot programs to phase out single-use plastic bags and replace them with reusable bags.
The new project also will extend a rail spur and upgrade post-industrial resin reprocessing.
The location in Matamoros had been slated to close.
Australia's antitrust regulator, the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission, has proposed granting the nation's three major supermarket chains a year to resolve post-consumer soft plastic recycling.
A Cambridge University student uses PVC pipe, foam insulation and four layers of PE film to replace windows shattered by the war in Ukraine.
The acquisition of Saginaw, Mich.-based Duro-Last gives the company in-house manufacturing capabilities as it expands further into the North American roofing market.
Finland-based VTT Technical Research Centre is investing €1.5 million ($1.6 million) into its CelluloseFilms pilot facility, where it produces renewable cellulose films designed to replace conventional plastic ones in packaging.
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