Argentina's petrochemicals industry is unlikely to expand until more natural gas and related feedstock supplies become available when the potential of the country's shale gas plays is turned into production in a decade or so, an analyst ...
Tags: Gas, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
At this year's Floor Tek Expo — being held in Dalton, Georgia USA, between September 10 and 12 — Oerlikon Neumag will be showcasing solutions for the efficient production of BCF carpet yarns (Booth 135). When applying hot-melt ...
Tags: Textile
Iranian researchers from Amir Kabir University of Technology produced dyeable polypropylene (PP) fibers by using clay nanoparticles. The study was carried out in a joint industrial plan between Petrochemistry Research and Technology ...
Packaging successful adoption that contains recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) depends on minimizing contamination of the recyclate from caps, labels, inks adhesives and other sources in US. The first commercial product using the ...
Tags: rPet Packaging, Packaging
Innovia Films is all set to install additional biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) film capacity and a gas turbine at its UK site with an investment of £20m. According to Innovia, a division of Innovia Group, the additional film ...
Tags: Innovia Films, BOPP Film Capacity
Italian food company Citres Spa will supply its pickles, pesti and sauces in RPC’s polypropylene jars, to meet its customers’ needs in Northern Europe markets. The new lightweight jars with easy opening are said to provide ...
Italian food specialist Citres Spa is set to launch its pickles, pesti and sauces in PC's new polypropylene jars, as part of its efforts to cater to the needs of customers in Northern Europe markets. The company has teamed up with RPC ...
Tags: Citres SPA, RPC Jars
Clariant, a world leader in specialty chemicals, announced that its Business Unit Catalysts has signed long-term cooperation agreements with CB&I's Lummus Novolen Technology GmbH business unit. The two companies will combine and ramp up ...
Tags: Clariant, specialty chemicals
The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers, the leading trade organization representing the plastics recycling industry in North America, has published an executive summary version of their recyclability design guides for packaging ...
A few months back, I read an article in Packaging Digest about consumers taking responsibility for "green actions." After citing some statistics about how a "record-high 71 percent of Americans" are "buying with an eye toward green," the ...
Oasis Medical, a US-based manufacturer and distributor of high quality disposable surgical instruments and ocular lubricating and cleansing solutions, has launched its new 6.25mm Oasis Iris Expander for pupil dilation and sustaining ...
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Inventor Kirby Kendall recalls that, after reading that discarded bottle caps can be ingested by sea life, he decided to create a hinged bottle cap by the design-for-manufacturing approach. He refers to his innovation as the Hinged Beverage ...
Ravi Sethi of ProcurianRaw material costs as a percentage of plastic packaging costs have been on a steady rise due to the long-term appreciation in crude oil prices, a key ingredient for resins. Crude oil prices have increased five-fold ...
Higher polymer-grade propylene and chemical-grade propylene prices are pushing up propylene derivatives prices, market sources said Wednesday. Recently announced price increases for propylene derivatives include for isopropyl alcohol, ...
Tags: Higher Propylene
Banners are important marketing tools in just about any advertising or marketing campaign. If you have a banner and wish to use it effectively, you most likely need to hang it. This is where most people waste a lot of time by depending on ...