Enso Plastics has introduced two new technologies, Enso Renew and Enso Restore, in order to address the growing global plastic pollution issue. According to the environmental plastics solutions provider, Enso Renew is a renewable thermo ...
Tags: Enso Plastics, Curb Pollution
Biopolymers supplier NatureWorks has named PTT Polymer Marketing (PTTPM) as its Ingeo distributor in Thailand and Vietnam. PTTPM, the marketing arm of PTT Global Chemical, will bring Ingeo to its broad base of thermoformers, film ...
Tags: PTT Polymer, Polymer Marketing
Natural organic matter (NOM) in seawater can cause biofouling problems in seawater facilities. This work reports on the use of a biofilter to prevent biological activity, and thus reduce the biofilm formation capacity downstream by more ...
Tags: Biodegradable Natural Organic Matter, Processing Machinery
Trinity Oaks, wholly-owned and produced by the US-based wine company Trinchero Family Estates, has announced that it has started bottling its wines with new plant-based capsules made from a carbon-neutral biopolymer. The capsules are made ...
Tags: Bottles Wines, Friendly Capsules
This Canadian study investigates a recently identified group of disinfection by-products, halo-benzoquinones, including formation and treatment in bench-scale coagulation of three source waters. Halo-benzoquinones (HBQs) are a recently ...
Tags: Halo-Benzoquinone, bench-scale coagulation, source waters
US-based chemical company FMC has acquired the pectin-related intellectual property developed by Vigido, a subsidiary of UniPektin Ingredients. Vigido is the former exclusive marketer of the pectin products of Pectine Italia, a company ...
Tags: FMC, Pectin Intellectual Property, Vigido
Australia's $9 billion polymers industry will be boosted by a national cooperative research initiative. The launch featured a novel degradable plastic film that Greening Australia and the Birchip Cropping Group have shown can dramatically ...
Tags: Chemicals, plastic film, Packaging, Printing
Bioscience company Metabolix has announced a distribution agreement with the Tianjin GreenBio Materials in China. According to the agreement terms, GreenBio's SoGreen heat shrink film will be distributed by Metabolix in Europe, which will ...
US-based chemical company cThe investment is a part of the company's strategy to supply its MCC to cThe new facility is expected to commence production in late 2014 and will feature MCC production, blending, packaging and warehousing. The ...
Warwick, R.I.-based Biomedical Structures LLC (BMS) and Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Modified Polymer Components (MPC) have merged with the aim of providing a complete range of value-added offerings to medical device original equipment ...
Biopolymers supplier NatureWorks has announced the location of its first Asia Pacific regional headquarters in Bangkok. NatureWorks president and CEO Marc Verbruggen said in many parts of Asia, especially China, Korea, Japan and Taiwan, ...
Adhesive supplier Henkel and DaniMer Scientific, LLC have formed an alliance to develop hot-melt adhesives for packaging that use bio-based raw materials. The initial target for these bio-based hot-melt adhesives will be the consumer ...
In addition to its Starlight and Radyarn flame-retardant, bacteriostatic and UV-stabilized polyester yarn lines, at Heimtextil 2013 RadiciGroup will shine the spotlight on its eco-compatible product lines: r-Starlight, r-Radyarn and ...
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It's a staggering figure – around 2.9m tonnes of food and drink is wasted each year, according to Wrap. It's a number that's been troubling politicians and environmentalists but it is a problem that packaging can help tackle. And ...
Tags: Flexibles, food shelf, Wrap, packaging
Packaging is increasingly recognised as a vital weapon in the fight against food waste. Philip Chadwick reports on how the flexible plastics sector is innovating to play its part in packaging's biggest challenge It's a staggering figure ...
Tags: food, drink, wasted, Packaging, flexible plastics, keeping food fresh