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By Don Rosato
 Barrier developments in food packaging are expected to greatly help reduce food waste to better feed a growing world population. Approximately one-third of the food produced around the world is lost or wasted on its way from the farm to the fork. In industrialized countries, 210 to 255 pounds of food still fit for consumption per person is simply thrown away each year. With limited natural resources, it is more effective to reduce food losses than to increase global food production.
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SPE Plastics Research Online
 Thermoplastic vulcanizates (TPVs) are the fastest-growing representatives in the family of thermoplastic elastomers, and are characterized by the presence of finely dispersed cross-linked rubber particles distributed in a continuous thermoplastic matrix. When these rubber particles are vulcanized, the physicochemical properties of the blends are improved. The high cost of the elastomeric phase, however, has prompted the search for other, more inexpensive alternatives.
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Plastics Today
While uncertainty reigns elsewhere in the global economy, the plastics industry is standing strong. That’s the conclusion of the latest Plante Moran 2016 North American Plastics Industry Study. Things that keep processors and mold manufacturers up at night might be causing sleep deprivation, but they don't seem to be affecting their bottom line.
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AZoM
An experiment conducted in the laboratory of Stanford University’s chemical engineering professor Zhenan Bao has resulted in the creation of a super-stretchy material. It began when one of the Bao’s team members, Cheng-Hui Li was testing the stretchiness of an elastomer, which he had just synthesized. Generally, elastomers can be stretched to two or three times of their original length and will return to their original size.
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Plastics News
If one retailer in the world can make the largest impact on the sustainability of shipping packaging, it may well be Alibaba. Currently ranked as the world’s largest retailer, Alibaba claims 3 trillion yuan ($476 billion) in gross market value. Many of the courier packages delivered in China require the recipient’s presence and signature, which created an opportunity that Alibaba’s logistics arm Cainiao quickly jumped on. Because the recipient is present when the package is delivered, instead of having the package left on the porch or in a mailbox, it would be possible for the courier to take the content out of the packaging, hand it over to the recipient, and then take the packaging back to the warehouse.
That’s exactly what Cainiao is trying to do.
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3DPrint.com
As 3-D printing makes major impacts on the medical industry, it's hard to find an area that's not affected positively – and in most cases, substantially. From creating 3-D printed models to help in diagnosing everything from tumors to pediatric cardiac issues and for assistance in complex surgeries to a wide array of 3-D printed devices like implants and prosthetics, we hear of one inspiring story after another, and often with the notation that such a procedure or increased functionality would not have been possible without the seemingly miraculous new technology.
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Powder & Bulk Solids
A Chinese producer of Polysulfone polymers, UJU New Materials Co. Ltd., recently signed a distributor and importer agreement with Conventus Polymers LLC to bring its products to North American markets. The company, headquarted in China's Guangdong province, is attempting to solve what it describes as "North America's Polysulfone crisis." The past few years have seen increasing demand for Polysulfone, and meeting the demand has been a challenge for many of the world’s producers like Solvay and BASF, the company said in a recent press release.
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Reuters
The European Union has agreed to let companies use recycled plastics containing softening additive diethylhexyl phthalate. The European Commission said there would be safeguards to address any concerns, such as monitoring and reporting requirements concerning worker exposure to DEHP, and the adoption of a shorter period when the authorization will have to be reviewed.
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Plastics and Rubber Weekly
RPC Promens Consumer Nordics has developed a one-liter milk bottle made entirely from a non-oil-based bio polymer produced from sugar cane. In what is believed to be a first in the European market, the polymer is also mixed with a special mineral filler. This, RPC Promens said, reduces the amount of polymer required for each Modul bottle without impacting on its strength and performance, an aspect it believed would further enhance its positive environmental profile.
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Plastics News
3-D printing may "rock the world," but how will it impact the plastics industry? That was the main question Plastics News editor Don Loepp had when he read "3-D Printing Will Rock the World," a book by John Hornick, a Washington-based lawyer who specializes in intellectual property issues. Hornick calls 3-D printers "the most powerful machines humans have ever invented because they can make finished products, with all their parts, fully assembled."
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Science Daily
A new n-type semiconducting polymer with superior electron mobility and oxidative stability has been developed by researchers. The team modified an n-type conjugated polymer with semi-fluoroalkyl side chains. As a result, the modified polymer was shown to form a superstructure composed of polymer backbone crystals and side-chain crystals, resulting in a high degree of semicrystalline order.
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