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....
Members of the new e-commerce alliance in China (Photo: Amcor) Packaging company Amcor (Hawthorn / Australia) has developed a PET bottle for pasteurised beer in...
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...
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....
For most companies until the beginning of the 1990s, resin drying carried out with adsorption driers to dehumidify plastic material was still the tool of choice. However, this procedure came...
At K 2019 in Düsseldorf, Germany, between October 16th and 23rd, for the first time anywhere in the world, ENGEL is exhibiting its iQ weight control intelligent assistance system for...
The UK government has sought to distance itself from a report its own ministers drew up which spells out the drastic consequences of a no-deal Brexit. The document, entitled the...
Mastebratch manufacturer Silvergate Plastics (Wrexham / UK) has launched a batch-to-batch colour match service for customers using recycled polymers and claims it overcomes any variation in the base colour of...
Apparently, July 2019 was not the best month for carbon fibre manufacturer SGL Carbon (Wiesbaden / Germany). The company noted a significant deviation from its expectations in the monthly analysis...
Sometimes, more is less. With the aim of further reducing cycle time, ENGEL has split the process of producing housing parts for medical devices using two-component injection moulding. The process...
The following article received today from the K press office of Messe Dusseldorf is an analysis of the situation of the European plastics industry and how K 2019 can pave...
According to a news published by today's "Industry News" section of the "K Potal"; The Spanish plastics technology centre Aimplas (Valencia) has launched its Microplast project, which will focus on...
Following its acquisition by investment firm Kohlberg & Company (Mount Kisco, New York / USA), Bemis three European flexible pharmaceutical packaging plants in Clara / Ireland, Derry / UK and...
The industry news sector of the K Portal has published the following interesting news; WANHUA: Two isocyanate acquisitions / Swedish plant manufacturer Chematur and China's Connell Polyurethane After a long...
According to the "industry news" section of the K Portal: EXTRUPET, the South African rPET producer adds second recycling line Extrupet (Wadeville / South Africa) the first and largest South...
Online tool RecyClass, available in five languages, developed by Plastics Recyclers Europe (PRE, Brussels / Belgium), has released a protocol that addresses and tests specific design features relating to the...
VDMA has just send a very interesting double interview about the new ways of make the plastics compostable. The PR title is: “Our coffee mugs decompose in the ground” but...
At this year’s K Show SIGMA Engineering aligns its booth concept with the motto “SIGMAinteract – Autonomous Optimization connects departments” and presents its new SIGMAinteract. In a cooperation project SIGMA...