The Material of Choice For A Range of Household And Healthcare Applications

INEOS Styrolution, the global leader in styrenics, today introduces a new member of its Zylar® family of MBS (“methyl methacrylate butadiene styrene”) materials. The new Zylar 631, rolled out to the markets in the Americas and in Asia-Pacific, has an excellent combination of product properties making it the material of choice for a range of household […]

Alliance to End Plastic Waste Focuses On Restructuring In Southeast Asia

Following the interview series of VDMA with top experts of the selected companies, today we have received their interview with Gian de Belder, Principal Scientist and Packaging Technologist at Procter & Gamble, about Circular Economy. The title of the PR is: ““We must take care that packaging and garbage do not to end up in the […]

Extension of Additive Range For Virgin And Recycled Polyamide

German chemical company Brüggemann (Heilbronn) has announced a series of new additives for both virgin and recycled polyamide, extending its range of flow enhancers, heat stabilisers and chain modifiers. The company is planning to launch the products at the forthcoming K 2019 trade fair to be held in Düsseldorf / Germany from 16-23 October. Available […]

Blow Moulding Business of Uniloy Will Return Back To Italy

The leading blow moulding machine and mould manufacturer, Uniloy, announced that blow moulding machine manufacturing has returned to its European Technical Center in Magenta, Italy. K show 2019 will mark the trade show debut for the new Uniloy organization. Uniloy CEO and President Brian Marston proclaimed, “What better way to present the new Uniloy company […]

Negri Bossi Will Present At K 2019 With Four Machines

Like every Wednesdays the bilingual (Italian / English) versions of macplasonline published today with several interesting topics. PIMI has picked up two titles from the issue no. 432 of macplasonline. The first covers the presence of the Italian company Negri Bossi at K 2019. Since the K trade show, held in Düsseldorf every three years, […]

New Trilateral Consortium Aims To Make Crackers More Sustainable

For several years, Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 has dominated discussions in the global petrochemicals and plastics sector. Now Europe has its own vision, which perhaps intentionally uses the same name. In contrast to the Saudis, whose primary goal is to become established as a major global player, the forward-looking trilateral plans developed by six established […]

AMCOR Participates In Chinese E-Commerce Alliance

Packaging company Amcor (Hawthorn / Australia) has developed a PET bottle for pasteurised beer in Brazil. The custom 600 ml containers were made for drinks company New Age Bebidas (São Paulo / Brazil) and introduced at the Fispal Tecnologia trade fair in June 2019. Amcor said it has undertaken a pre-market trial in select cities in […]

Machinery And Equipment Import To Iran Under The Shadow

According to the Government website, on Tue. Sept. 3rd, the Government administrative announced the modification of its previous amendment regarding the source of the FOREX that could be supplied for importation of machinery and equipment for production of essential and basic goods. Based on this news, the ministers’ council at its Sept. 3rd, meeting discussed […]

Bad Plastics Image Is Transferred To Bio Plastics Though Are Climate Neutral

Frankfurt, 3 September 2019 – Interview with Interview with Prof. Dr. Hans-Josef Endres, head of IKK Institute for Plastics and Circular Economy at Leibniz University of Hanover. Plastics have a bad image. Can bioplastics contribute to changing attitudes Prof. Hans-Josef Endres: Bioplastics can have an impact on the image because they have advantages as regards the raw material as […]