Plastic bag bans won’t be the only issue on the state and local legislative fronts that the plastics industry will have to contend with this year. A number of communities are looking to enact bans on polystyrene takeout containers, ...
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With the start of a new year, Plastics News restates its editorial agenda. The plastics industry has made important progress in many of these areas in the past decade, and we applaud the efforts. * Safety must be every company’s top ...
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PlasticsEurope director Wilfried Haensel says there are still opportunities for the region’s plastics industry, despite all the ongoing economic uncertainties facing the Eurozone. This year has brought the industry back from the ...
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Mann+Hummel has developed a new range of hollow fibre membranes made from PES (polyether sulphone) for use in water filtration – particularly in applications requiring temperature and chemical stability. PES has a higher chemical ...
A lack of recycling options for the mercury-containing compact fluorescent lamps (CFL), touted by government as the environmentally friendly lighting alternative, has in part led to a delay in new federal energy efficiency regulations. The ...
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A lack of recycling options for the mercury-containing compact fluorescent lamps (CFL), touted by government as the environmentally friendly lighting alternative, has in part led to a delay in new federal energy efficiency regulations. ...
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Without a doubt, savings in energy, water and raw materials were the key drivers for the machine and process innovations on show at this year's ITMA in Barcelona. ACIMIT and the VDMA - as the respective textile machinery trade associations ...
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Packing Machines are of many types such as Drying Machines, Feeding Machines, Package Filling Machines, Accumulating and Related Machines, Closing and Sealing Machines, Unscrambling Machines, Accumulating Machines, Converting Machines, ...
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According to the latest UK Household Plastics Packaging Collection Survey produced by the British Plastics Federation (BPF) Recycling Group member Recoup, bottle recycling rate has reached 48.5% in the UK. It is a 2.5% increase as compared ...
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They are what connect the different parts of the process that take raw material through to finished product.Getting the right conveyor for your operation is important. The aim is to move large or bulk batches through your process at a ...
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Despite a market recovery following the 2008-9 recession, demand for European food and beverage packaging in specific areas is being hit by "structural changes" including the sustainability trend. Applied Market Information (AMI) drew this ...
Existing size of the abrasives industry, manufacturers of about 2000, of which 80% of private enterprises. Total industry economies of scale (current output) 218 billion yuan. According to incomplete statistics, the national capacity of 300 ...
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UK corporation Revend Recycling Ltd, has launched an innovative reverse vending recycling machine for the collection and recycling of domestic light bulbs and domestic batteries. The machine is the “FIRST” domestic light bulb ...
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Compounding extruders continued their comeback this year, with something new - demand for large-volume compounding machines, industry officials said. A resurgent automotive sector, joined with steady packaging and recycling markets, has ...
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Modern Machine tool The "ancestors" of the textile machine. In 1789, the 21-year-old British workers Slater posing as farmers, to change the name, to escape the British authorities to monitor the exit to the United States. With his amazing ...
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