North American rigid packaging manufacturer Placon has completed the acquisition of Plastic Packaging, a rigid plastic container producer in the US. The 100,000ft2 location of Plastic Packaging in West Springfield will bring the total ...
German packaging solutions provider Krones has unveiled the new 'DecoType' technology for digital direct printing on containers and packages during an ongoing production operation. The new technology has been designed to enable users ...
Tags: Krones, Direct Printing, Plastic Containers
The advantages of direct printing still need to be explained to all but a handful of companies. The main plus is that it offers significantly more scope for individualised and eye-catching design – the kind of small run, quick ...
The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR), representing over 90% of North America's post-consumer plastic recycling capacity, is encouraging municipal recycling programs to promote 'the Caps On Bottles' to take advantage of ...
Tags: Plastic Packaging, Packaging, Printing
Vitro Minerals announces the commercialization of a synthetic light weight mineral filler for plastics and sealants that is 10-17% lower specific gravity than traditional fillers commonly used. At 40% filler loading in nylon or ...
Tags: Vitro Minerals, Synthetic Mineral
Market participants in Latin America are most likely to believe that polymer prices are going to decrease in the coming months, one of the main reasons the market is quite slow in countries such as Brazil, Peru and Colombia, sources said on ...
Tags: Polymer, polymer prices, Olefin
US polypropylene contracts could see a stable-to-down settlement for April, then rebound as early as May, market sources said Monday. A nomination for polymer-grade propylene contracts calling for a rollover of March pricing was giving PP ...
Tags: polypropylene, polymer-grade propylene, PGP
Henkel Corporation has introduced a new, water-based reactive autodeposition coating, Bonderite M-PP 930C™, formulated specifically to deliver a uniform, defect-free surface coating on raw cast components and ferrous metals. This ...
Tags: coating, Construction, Decoration
Anchor Packaging, a US-based food packaging products provider, has added new Culinary Squares separate bases and lids to its Culinary Basics and Culinary Classics lines of polypropylene packages. Available in single and three-compartment ...
Tags: helps maximize performance, renewable mineral additives
Old materials are new again as companies scramble to replace polycarbonate dielectricThe insulating material between the plates of the capacitor. The material is chosen for its ability to permit electrostatic attraction and repulsion to ...
The UAE's Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange, or DGCX, and China's Dalian Commodity Exchange, or DCE, announced Wednesday that they will simultaneously launch their respective polypropylene futures contracts on February 28. "The ...
Tags: Polypropylene Futures, Chemicals
UK-based Plastics scrap trading firm GFSL will unveil a new mixed rigid plastic recycling plant at the Wilton International estate in Redcar. The company's new plant will process about 20,000 tonnes of mixed rigid plastics annually with a ...
Vacuum skin packaging (VSP) for meat officially entered the UK market this week. Linpac Packaging trialled VSP last year, working with machine manufacturer, Mondini and film producer, Bernis, to create a pack that combines the extended ...
Tags: vacuum skin packaging, Linpac Packaging, vacuum skin, meat presentation
PolyOne Corporation, a premier global provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions, today announced additional realignment actions to better serve customers and to increase utilization of its manufacturing assets in ...
Tags: specialized polymer, PolyOne
India has lifted the 6.5 percent anti-dumping duty imposed on import of polypropylene (PP) from Oman in November 2010, Indian Ambassador to the Sultanate, JS Mukul told reporters in Muscat, reports Times of Oman. The decision of the ...
Tags: PP Import, Anti-Dumping Duty