From Extruded Sheets, To Vacuum Formed And Finally A Honeycomb Core
EconCore (Leuven / Belgium) is furthering development of rPET-based sheet extrusion (Click Here). The company has announced that it installed a Meaf Machines (Yerseke / The Netherlands) extruder for testing purposes. Following successful tests, the process is to be scaled up for commercial production at Econcore’s subsidiary ThermHex Waben (Halle / Germany). The Dutch company […]
WRAP Launches Grant To Increase Waste Recycling In England
Campaigners welcomed the fall but said the 9.6m cups ordered was too many. Nevertheless, hospitals, emergency services, councils and government organisations have all said they are trying to reduce the amount of waste produced by cups. One of the bodies that has gone plastic free is Cardiff University (Cardiff / UK). A university spokesperson said […]
New Styrenics Solutions For Household And Electronics Production
INEOS Styrolution, the global leader in styrenics, announces today a new ABS (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene) grade as part of its Novodur® family of ABS specialty copolymers. The new material grade, Novodur P4XF, excels with a high flowability and at the same time offers an attractive balance profile between flowability and impact strength. Its product properties make the new grade the […]
Ningbo Plastics Giant Earns 15% Less in 2019
The Ningbo giant company of injection moulding machine manufacturing, that is one of the most famous names in Chinese machinery is now suffering from world’s recession and slow economy. We are trying to show that why the company’s earnings were down for about 15% during the first half of 2019. Before that we will have […]
Polymer Price Declining Continues In Iran Together With The World
Like other Sundays, today Sun. Sept. 1st, the PDID office of NPC announced the base prices of petrochemicals. These prices will be valid for less than a week for the materials which will be supplied through stock exchange (IME). Later, PDID announced that due to the next week’s holly vacations on Monday and Tuesday, the […]
Material Prices Decrease Globally Affects All Markets
The monitoring of the free market prices on today Sat. Aug. 31st shows that all market signals are on behalf of the true converters of the materials. From one side, as a result of the US-China trade war the global prices of most popular commodities are following a downward trend, and from the other side […]
Upcycled Plastics Bottles Turned Into Prosthesis Are Cost Saving
There has been numerous attack on plastics during last decade and most communities are trying to prevent using plastics. However, some nations that are looking wise to the materials and its uses and after uses are trying to get the best of the plastics wastes. Prosthesis are the fields that are now have come to […]
Innovative Plasticising Systems for LFS Processing At K 2019
The screw, non-return valve and barrel massively influence the melt quality and repeatability of the injection moulding process as well as the lifespan and cost-effectiveness of the injection moulding machine. The continuous advances in plasticising systems and in-house screw production are thus core competencies at ENGEL. The injection moulding machine manufacturer and system solution provider […]
Restrictions of Plastics Wastes Imports in Some Countries is Shrinking Recyclates
Countries such as China, Thailand, Malaysia and India have restricted plastic and other waste being imported, leaving exporting countries with a predicament. Not only have these bans led to the exporting marketing shrinking significantly, it has also caused plastic waste build ups in countries which would usually export materials, as they do not yet have […]
