United Kingdom: Food-grade HDPE recycling champion

Every HDPE milk or juice bottle that has been produced in any ALPLA plant in the United Kingdom must consist of at least 30 per cent rHDPE

News 06.04.2020

Unipetrol completes major investment in new PE unit

The Czech company has completed and officially commissioned the principal part of the construction of the new polyethylene unit (PE3)

New Issue

14.07.2021

Extrusion 5-2021

Articles

ERA: A new screen changer generation

The screen-changer of the Italian producer enables to setup a pre-filtration on the first step and a finer one in the second

Articles

The Smoking Gun of Chemical Recycling

A joint study reveals the plastic lobby's "chem-cycling" fairy tale

Articles

Antibacterial materials from Mocom

With Alperform® HM, MOCOM offers antibacterial masterbatches for flexible retrofitting of a durable, antibacterial protection of plastic materials

Articles

NDC Technologies’ Versatile FilmProTM IR Gauge Delivers Numerous Benefits and Savings to Film, Sheet and Coating Operations

It can measure clear, pigmented, voided/pearlized, tinted products or stripes running through the product

Articles

PrintCYC: Innovative solutions for a circular economy

PrintCYC is a value chain initiative for the recyling of printed films, the acronym stands for printed polypropylene (PP) and polyethylene (PE) films for mechanical recycling

Articles

Getting the Most from Your Extrusion Tooling

Tooling maintenance improves extrusion efficiency, enhances quality and boosts overall productivity for your medical tubing applications.

Articles

NDC Technologies Offers the Best of Both Worlds for the Measurement of Transparent Films

Advanced system solution controls both haze and film thickness

Articles

Water-cooled electric motors from Baumüller

Baumüller offers the water-cooling method for a wide range of motor sizes, which allows greater power with more compactness

News

News 20.07.2021

Aslan presents a film with holographic effect

Holographic ASLAN SE 72 is a silver self-adhesive PET-film, shimmering in the colours of the rainbow

News 20.07.2021

Polykar Breaks Ground on its New Manufacturing Facility in Edmonton

The construction of this facility is phase one of a $40 million investment to create a centre of excellence for the development of flexible and compostable packaging

Case studies

Сase studies

Recycled resin based shrink film in China

Dow and Mengniu, China’s leading dairy company, announced the successful commercialization of a collation shrink film made with Dow’s post-consumer recycled (PCR) resins in Mengniu’s product packaging