Plastics Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The head of Honeywell’s Plastics Circularity Business points to a dual mechanical/advanced recycling pathway to optimize packaging sustainability.

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Plastics News

MAY 12, 2023

Join us on June 6 at 10:00 AM EDT/ 3:00 AM BST/ 4:00 PM CEST for a Sustainable Plastics Livestream sponsored by Trinseo! In the June Sustainable Plastics Live, we’re focusing on carbon and renewable carbon. Lowering the industry’s carbon footprint and reducing greenhouse gases are major plastics issues.

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Canadian Manufacturing

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

MISSISSAUGA — By 2050 at the latest, all tires will be made of sustainable materials. These include waste products from agriculture – such as the ash from rice husks – rubber from dandelions, recycled rubber or PET bottles. At the latest, we aim to use 100 per cent sustainable materials in our tire products by 2050.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

IperionX’s leading production technology hydrogen assisted metallothermic reduction (HAMR) titanium furnace has completed final mechanical assembly and successfully passed the IperionX technical team factory acceptance testing. It is now being transported to the U.S

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E&T

APRIL 26, 2023

International scientists have been working on different ways of utilising cellulose fibrils - fine fibres that can be produced from wood pulp or agricultural waste - to produce sustainable electronics. Geiger continued his research on a new sustainable electronics project alongside sustainability specialist Claudia Som.

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Canadian Manufacturing

MARCH 22, 2023

NOVA Chemicals sets new ESG targets to promote a circular economy in plastics CALGARY — NOVA Chemicals Corporation announced new ESG ambitions to drive the circular economy for plastics, in line with its vision to become the leading sustainable polyethylene producer in North America.

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E&T

MARCH 14, 2023

Compostable plastics, which are engineered to biodegrade under controlled conditions, have been increasing in popularity in recent years, but often look identical to conventional plastics and therefore get recycled incorrectly. Looking at pieces measuring 5mm by 5mm, some materials were identified more reliably than others.

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Plastics News

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The firm has seen increased interest from its customers in sustainable materials with recycled content. Suppliers are targeting sustainability," he said. Then it's a question of if they want to work with mechanical or chemical recycling.". It's high on every agenda.". "In

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Canadian Manufacturing

OCTOBER 24, 2022

CALGARY — NOVA Chemicals Corporation has launched a new, mechanically recycled polyethylene resin: EX-PCR-NC4. EX-PCR-NC4 contains 100 per cent post-consumer recycled polyethylene (rPE) and offers design flexibility to help lower the carbon footprint of packaging.

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Canadian Manufacturing

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

CALGARY — NOVA Chemicals Corporation announced the establishment of NOVA Circular Solutions, a new line of business focusing on lower-emission, recycled solutions that will try and reshape a better, more sustainable world. Today’s announcement underscores NOVA’s commitment to be a leader in sustainable polyethylene production.

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Canadian Manufacturing

JUNE 23, 2023

CALGARY — NOVA Chemicals Corporation announced strategic senior leadership changes that will try and help the company be at the forefront of sustainable polyethylene production, and underscore its commitment to reshaping plastics for more sustainability. “As

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Fabricating & Metal Work

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Cortec ® has released new metals packaging solution with an eye to sustainability and convenience. VCI/VpCI ® Paper Mechanics CorShield ® VpCI ® -146 Paper is coated with Vapor phase Corrosion Inhibitors that vaporize and diffuse off the paper over time. Headquartered in St.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

AUGUST 23, 2023

A global manufacturing company and distributor of sustainable, innovative packaging has expanded its operations in Victoria as part of a multi-million-dollar project that is creating local jobs and boosting the state’s advanced manufacturing capabilities, with support from the Victorian Government.

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Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

MAY 10, 2022

First, it was clear that, despite the commercialisation of new technologies, there is still a significant gap, especially if we want to reach the sustainability goals set for 2050. I don’t see this as a step forward because that lid is recyclable (and useful in my own house). Recycling plants would not want to do this.

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Canadian Manufacturing

JUNE 29, 2023

CALGARY — NOVA Chemicals Corporation and Plastic Energy have entered into an agreement to explore the feasibility of developing a pyrolysis-driven advanced recycling facility in the Sarnia, Ontario, region. If constructed, the facility would be the largest of its kind in Canada with a potential initial capacity of 66kt per annum.

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MEM

JANUARY 26, 2023

Sumika Polymer Compounds’ short glass-fibre polypropylene (GF-PP) THERMOFIL HP and recycled polypropylene (GF-rPP) THERMOFIL CIRCLE materials benefit from sustainable manufacturing and recycling processes and offer carmakers performance equivalent to incumbent engineering plastics, but with an up to 60% lower carbon footprint.

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Additive Manufacturing

OCTOBER 3, 2022

These materials are carrier resins for masterbatches that empower sustainable innovation in the plastics industry by helping OEMs and molders in the packaging, automotive and consumer goods segments decrease reliance on virgin plastics. The post Post-Consumer Recycled Resins Offered by M. In addition to offering PCR products, M.

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E&T

MARCH 17, 2023

While glass is widely recycled, and can be recycled indefinitely unlike plastic, much of it still ends up in landfill when recyclers find it too difficult or expensive to separate the material out from other materials. This included “excellent optical characteristics and mechanical properties”, the researchers said.

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E&T

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Wind turbine blades can’t be recycled, so they’re piling up in landfills’ the accompanying headline read. At the beginning of August, the first recyclable blade, developed by Siemens Gamesa, was installed at the Kaskasi offshore wind farm in Germany, marking notable progress on this goal. Image credit: Jorrit Lousberg.

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Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

DECEMBER 21, 2022

. – December 21, 2022 – Recently Frost & Sullivan assessed the sustainable mining solutions industry and, based on its findings, recognizes Omya with the 2022 Europe New Product Innovation Award. Omyaloop is the market’s first certified, 100% recycled calcium carbonate product range for polymer applications.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

APRIL 18, 2023

CEO Grant Forsdick is a degree-qualified mechanical engineer who holds an MBA, with over 20 years’ of experience in manufacturing. There are several ways in which manufacturers are taking sustainability measures. Some are investing in renewable energy sources, such as solar or wind power, to reduce their carbon footprint.

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AU Manufacturing

JANUARY 8, 2023

SK Geo Centric , a subsidiary of SK Innovation’s, has signed a contract with British company Plastic Energy, which specializes in plastic pyrolysis, completing the “last puzzle” of the world’s first plastic recycling complex to be built in 2025. This action is expected to enable efficient plastic recycling.

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AU Manufacturing

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

The initiative seeks to enable rapid production, reduce manufacturing costs and explore the potential for composites to be reprocessed and recycled. . “A A key objective of this study is to produce sustainably manufactured composite materials that are also commercially relevant,” Wang said. .

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i4.0 today

AUGUST 29, 2022

It doesn’t matter whether the topic is automotive electrification or e-mobility, climate change or sustainability. At the K, the M&M team will display new developments in more sustainable solutions, automotive electrification and e-mobility, robotics, consumer electronics, sporting goods, footwear, and more. .

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i4.0 today

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

As an integral part of many automation solutions, the use of industrial cameras also opens up new ways for users to conserve resources and thus ensure greater sustainability. We have reduced the amount of plastic in our packaging to less than five per cent and replaced it with biodegradable and sustainable alternatives.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Directors Steve Walsh and Peter Green took over the business in 2019, aiming to advance its manufacturing capability and sustainability. High-grade Australian aluminium supports the pair’s goals, providing lightweight strength, endurance and recyclability. Aluminium gives us the right specification,” Walsh says.

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Frost & Sullivan Manufacturing

DECEMBER 7, 2022

These next-generation technology products position Schneider Electric as the vendor of choice among utilities and C&I customers while cost-effectively addressing the growing complexity of their utility networks and sustainability concerns. Customer-deployed predictive maintenance strategies. Rajalingam A.

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AU Manufacturing

MAY 31, 2023

The breakthrough, published in the top journal Nature, could help extend the applications of titanium alloys, improve sustainability, and drive innovative alloy design, RMIT revealed in a press release.

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E&T

MARCH 13, 2023

Dott said its teams of mechanics plan to fully refurbish over 2,000 e-scooters initially – an approach that will then be replicated and expanded to cover vehicles across all of the countries in which it operates. The e-scooters are dismantled, sorted into parts for either recycling, repairing or reusing, and then renovated and painted.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Dr Ruirui Qiao from the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) is working with her team of researchers to refine new polymerisation techniques – the team’s goal is to provide a sustainable alternative to conventional plastics; she spoke with Manufacturers’ Monthly to explain. Dr Qiao said.

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E&T

DECEMBER 2, 2022

This is because the phrase can be taken to mean any product that is, “more sustainable than it used to be”. For the senior manager of Environment at Finnish steel manufacturer Outokumpu – the largest steel producer in Europe, second in the Americas – this approach to defining sustainability credentials for the metal is too vague.

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Control Engineering

DECEMBER 3, 2022

A recycling company looked to automate its process for delivering LEED results to their customers. Automation made the process more sustainable and efficient while giving the customers more accurate numbers. Automating the process provided the recycling company the ability to deliver more accurate results and simplified the process.

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Fabricating & Metal Work

JULY 22, 2023

Tramp oil separation : Removes free-floating and mechanically dispersed tramp oils, bacteria, slime, and inverted emulsions that are present in machining and grinding fluids, wash waters, cooling water, and wastewater to reduce hazardous waste volumes. Wringing chips also reduces coolant purchases and lowers haul-away and disposal costs.

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Canadian Manufacturing

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Electra will supply 1,000 tonnes of cobalt contained in a cobalt sulfate product in 2023 and a further 3,000 tonnes in each of 2024 and 2025 under an agreed pricing mechanism. The Company also says they are developing black mass battery recycling capabilities to recover lithium, nickel, cobalt, graphite, and copper.

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MEM

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Its boards are carbon-negative and flame-retardant, manufactured using a bio-based, non-toxic process and they are recyclable when they reach end of life. Honext® boards is another brand that has been shortlisted for leading the way in a circular economy.

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E&T

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The E&T Innovation Awards attract hundreds of entries: inspiring solutions to some of the world’s greatest challenges including sustainability, mobility, communication, health and energy. The dashboard goes beyond the Energy Data Taskforce recommendations to facilitate open innovation and collaboration on sustainability.

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Canadian Manufacturing

JUNE 5, 2023

Initial site review and civil/mechanical engineering design work have commenced at the site, and all site preparation and interconnections to FCL’s tanks and other equipment already shipped and on site are being completed. TORONTO — Full Circle Lithium Corp.,

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