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Elopak First to Hit One Billion Mark for 100% Renewable Cartons

Jun 25, 2018

Elopak is the first manufacturer to deliver over one billion 100% renewable cartons after launching beverage cartons featuring certified renewable polyethylene (PE) in 2014. Elopak's cartons offered with renewable PE, help ensuring ...

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£3m Funding for New Scottish Plastic Recycling Facility

Jun 11, 2018

Project Beacon, which has the potential to recycle all plastics in Scotland and beyond, has secured £3m funding. Project Beacon, at Binn Farm in Perthshire, is lighting the way to a circular world of complete plastics recycling ...

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ExxonMobil Mulls New Gulf Coast Plastics Facility

Mar 22, 2018

ExxonMobil said that it will make a final investment decision later this year on a potential polypropylene production expansion along the US Gulf Coast. The company started detailed engineering work on a potential US Gulf Coast project to ...

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Aptar Beauty + Home Launches Closures Made of Post-Consumer Resin

Mar 19, 2018

Aptar has launched a Sustainable Materials Task Force that addresses customer, consumer and regulatory expectations for sustainable product offerings. Sustainability is a key driver in the market today. Sustainability efforts are now ...

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Revised Legislative Package on Waste Recognizes Bioplastics Play Key Role in Achieving EU Recycling Goals

Mar 7, 2018

European Bioplastics (EUBP), the association for the bioplastics industry in Europe, said said that revised legislative package on waste acknowledges that bioplastics play a key role in achieving EU recycling goals. The association said ...

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Tetra Pak Supports EU Plastics Strategy

Jan 18, 2018

Tetra Pak said that it will support the European Commission’s plastics strategy in a bid to reduce plastic pollution. The company will collaborate with industry partners to use recycling solutions for all components of beverage ...

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Environmental Image Important to UK Plastics Converters, Says Survey

Dec 15, 2017

European Plastics Converters (EuPC), a European trade association, has surveyed plastics converters across Europe to look at the current and future use of recycled content as well as incentives and barriers to its use. With high targets ...

Tags: European Plastics Converters, Plastics

Braskem Renews Supply Agreement with Sojitz PLA for Green Plastic

Sep 4, 2017

Petrochemical firm Braskem has renewed a long-term agreement with Sojitz Pla-Net to supply green plastic. Under the deal, Braskem will continue to supply I'm greenT Polyethylene (green plastic), which is a polymer made from renewable ...

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ISRI Unveils New Policy on Degradable Additives in Plastics Packaging

Jul 17, 2017

The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) has recently adopted a position on use of degradable additives in plastic packaging. The institute has recently passed a series of changes to its policy positions, as well as a new policy ...

Tags: Plastics Packaging, degradable additives

Wittmann Launches New G-Max 23 Granulator

Jul 5, 2017

Wittmann has launched a new granulator G-Max 23 under its G-Max series of conventional blade granulators. The new model will complement other granulators in the G-Max series including G-Max 12, G-Max 33. The latest model is claimed to ...

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Report Forecasts Global Bioplastics for Packaging Market to Grow by 17% CAGR to 2022

Apr 19, 2017

A report from Smithers Pira expects global bioplastics for packaging industry to be worth $7.2bn, at an average rate of 17% per year between 2017 and 2022. According to the report - The Future of Bioplastics for Packaging to 2022, ...

Tags: Packaging Market, bioplastics, packaging

China's Apparent Oil Demand up 5.3% in 2017

Apr 8, 2017

China's apparent oil demand rose 5.3% year on year in the first two months of 2017 to 11.65 million b/d on the back of robust economic growth, holiday transportation demand and efforts to build stocks ahead of the refinery maintenance ...

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US Startup Mango Materials Tests New Process for Biodegradable Plastics

Mar 14, 2017

US startup Mango Materials is testing a new process for biodegradable plastics at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Advanced Biofuels Process Demonstration Unit. By using bacterial fermentation process, the startup is engaged in the ...

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Butadiene-Naphtha Spread Hits 7-Year High

Jan 30, 2017

The Asian butadiene-naphtha price spread hit a seven-year high of $2,557.38/mt CFR last Friday amid extremely tight supply globally and strong demand for downstream products such as styrene-butadiene-rubber, SB latex and ...

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Qatar Petroleum and Shell Sign Heads of Agreement for The Development of a World-Scale Petrochemicals Complex in Qatar

Dec 10, 2016

The scope under consideration includes a world-scale steam cracker, with feedstock coming from natural gas projects in Qatar; a mono-ethylene glycol plant of up to 1.5 million tonnes per annum using Shell’s proprietary OMEGA (Only MEG ...

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