27 January 2023
Dow (NYSE: DOW) and LVMH Beauty, a division of LVMH, the world leader in luxury and home to 75 iconic brands, will collaborate to accelerate the use of sustainable packaging across LVMH’s perfume and cosmetic products. This...
10 January 2023
SABIC, a global leader in the chemical industry, collaborates with Scientex in the packaging value chain to enable the manufacturer to develop material for the world’s first flexible food packaging made based on advanced...
9 November 2022
ENGEL is one of the most sustainable industrial companies worldwide. This was confirmed by the current sustainability ranking on the EcoVadis platform. ENGEL has improved its ranking from silver to gold and is the only injection...
10 October 2022
For some time now, bioplastics have been used for more than just garbage bags or mulch films: Biopolymers are increasingly found in durable high-performance products, for example in demanding automotive applications, casings for...
22 September 2022
Dow (NYSE: Dow), the world’s leading materials science company, and Mura Technology, the global pioneer of an advanced plastic recycling solution, announced the next step in their ongoing collaboration to help solve the global...
9 September 2022
C.O.I.M. S.p.A., an Italian multinational company producing specialty chemicals since 1962 and operating worldwide with nineteen manufacturing and trading companies, is an active member of CEFLEX(Circular Economy for Flexible...
25 July 2022
Tyre Recycling Solutions will use BUSS’ Compeo compounding technology to transform end-of-life tires into innovative and valuable compounds. © Shutterstock The Swiss innovator and scale-up company Tyre Recycling Solutions SA...
19 July 2022
Certification granted by AENOR, a top ten global body for management systems and product certification. Dow (NYSE: DOW) announced today its post- consumer recycled-rich resins, REVOLOOPTM, are the first polyethylene (PE)...
25 May 2022
“CHINAPLAS Virtual Show 2022: Innovative Plastics & Rubber Technology Connects the World”, officially goes live today (25 May, 2022). During 25 May – 14 Jun, 2022, in three weeks’ time, there are more than 4,000...
24 May 2022
Rising energy prices, establishing a circular economy and changing consumer needs pose serious challenges for manufacturers of plastic packaging. Injection moulding machine manufacturer ENGEL has established a new Packaging...
20 May 2022
The WorldStar Packaging Awards ceremony took place in Milan at the beginning of May. Out of 440 entries from 37 countries, the “rPET School Milk Cup Project” from Upper Austria won the Sustainability Award in GOLD as...
19 May 2022
“CHINAPLAS Virtual Show 2022: Innovative Plastics & Rubber Technology Connects the World”, a new form of online gathering for plastics and rubber industries, is going to be held on 25 May – 14 Jun, 2022. This...
10 May 2022
The recently opened Circular Plastics Australia PET recycling facility in Albury-Wodonga, New South Wales, is equipped with a recoSTAR PET 215 HC iV+ PET bottle-to-bottle recycling line from Starlinger that produces 2.5 tons of...
9 May 2022
After two years of online ceremonies, last Wednesday May 04, around 300 packaging professionals, representing 37countries, were together to celebrate the winners of WorldStar Award 2022, the global packaging competition organized...
5 April 2022
JEC Group and Assocompositi, the Italian Association of Composite Materials, are organizing JEC Forum ITALY, the first event in Italy dedicated exclusively to composite materials in all their different applications, which will be...
28 March 2022
Mauser Packaging Solutions is pleased to announce that it has received UN-certification for its Infinity Series Intermediate Bulk Container (IBC), a composite IBC with an inner receptacle made from high-quality, natural colored...
24 February 2022
In a few years, JEC Composites Startup Booster has became a reference for entrepreneurship in the composites industry worldwide. Each year before JEC World, among the startups that submitted their application, 20 of them are...
19 February 2022
Based on the good feedback to last year’s SIGMA Technical Talks this webinar series will be offered again with new partners, topics, and presentations over several weeks this spring. SIGMA Engineering in cooperation with...
4 February 2022
Among the countries in Southeast Asia, Singapore has taken a special place for being an ideal investment site for major players in the plastics industry as many of them operate subsidiaries and retain their production facilities...
1 February 2022
ENGEL Group board reshuffle on 1 February 2022. Dr. Gerhard Dimmler, previously Vice President Research and Development, is being appointed to the board as CTO. He is taking over the Development division from CEO Dr. Stefan...
26 January 2022
ELIX Polymers, specialised in styrene-based thermoplastics, has a wide product portfolio of precoloured ABS and ABS blends for the Automotive Industry. Especially in interior applications, aesthetics is key to differentiate...
13 January 2022
Fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) is one of the industries that very much relying on plastics to support their dynamic activities and create trendy products in order to meet today’s evolving consumer preferences. FMCG, such as...
10 November 2021
Il Gruppo Piovan conferma il suo l’impegno per uno sviluppo sostenibile ottenendo l’ESG Risk Rating rilasciato da Sustainalytics – società di Morningstar, leader nella ricerca ESG indipendente, nel rating e nei...
10 November 2021
Styrenics Circular Solutions (SCS), the value chain initiative to increase the circularity of styrenic polymers, welcomed the association for European Manufacturers of Expanded Polystyrene (EUMEPS) as a new member. EUMEPS is the...
4 November 2021
It was on March 21st 2020, in the midst of a pandemic emergency that had pushed Italy into its first lockdown, when TEKNI-PLEX GALLAZZI was put into serious difficulty by a fire that accidentally broke out on one of the three...
2 November 2021
The ALPLA Group, a global packaging solutions manufacturer and recycling specialist headquartered in Hard, Austria, announced that it has selected the Kansas City region for its new 23,000-square-metre manufacturing plant. In a...
18 October 2021
Biesse Group, a company that designs, manufactures and distributes systems and machines for machining wood, glass, stone, metal, plastic and composite materials, listed in the STAR segment of the Milan Stock Exchange, today...
11 October 2021
Observing all appropriate Covid-19 protocols, Sepro Group will bring a total of 11 robots to Fakuma 2021, which is scheduled for 12 – 16 October in Friedrichshafen, Germany. Seven of those robots will be displayed on Sepro’s...
25 September 2021
The company branch of Martinenghi S.r.l. in Albignano d’Adda (MI) historical firm active in the market of machines for the production of collapsible tubes, aerosol cans and rigid containers made of aluminum as well as in the...
30 August 2021
The CPD certified conference programme at Interplas 2021 will present a wide range of industry topics from renowned speakers from within the industry and also from some of the UK’s largest trade buyers of plastic products and...
27 August 2021
When Interplas, the UK’s largest plastics manufacturing event, returns to the NEC, Birmingham next month it will be the first chance for the entire plastics supply chain to meet face-to-face in over four years. Visitors...
25 August 2021
ENGEL’s stand at Fakuma 2021 from 12-16 October in Friedrichshafen, Germany, will put the spotlight on sustainability. The production of decorated monomaterial food packaging and the processing of regrind from labelling waste...
19 August 2021
SABIC, a global leader in the chemical industry announced the launch of its certified circular polycarbonate (PC) resin and blends made from the upcycling of post-consumer mixed plastic – a first in the industry. This...
12 August 2021
The sports and leisure industry has always been a showcase of trendsetting products and processing techniques from the plastics and rubber industries. The past Olympic Games served as the world premiere of sportswear,...
21 July 2021
To meet sustainability targets and fulfill commitments to the plastics circular economy, producers of plastic articles are increasingly using polymers that are compostable. Clariant’s business unit Pigments is contributing to...
19 July 2021
Subsequent to the project accomplished by Biffa and AMUT for the Seaham state-of-the-art recycling facility, one of the most modern and technically advanced in the world, the two players join forces again for Biffa’s new...
21 June 2021
Following the official announcement by the Minister of Economic Development Stefano Patuanelli of its appointment as Lighthouse Plant of the Smart Factory Cluster for the super-innovative Zero Defects Manufacturing project, HSD...
14 June 2021
For three days, everything in ENGEL’s virtual world is revolving around the current and future challenges in injection moulding. How can the new possibilities of digitalisation be converted into opportunities? Which...
12 May 2021
SABIC, specialised in the chemical industry, is pleased to announce the launch of its collaboration with KraussMaffei HighPerformance AG at the partner’s Thin-Wall Packaging Application Center in Näfels, Switzerland, the site...
22 April 2021
Biesse Group, a multinational in the processing of wood, glass, stone advanced materials and metal quoted in the STAR division of the Italian Stock Exchange, has announced the expansion of its international network with new...
21 April 2021
Plastic sprues are typically composed of clean production scrap and can therefore be easily reused. The G-Maxseries of compact beside-the-press granulators is specifically designed for closed-loop material recycling of...
