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Resin price report: Producer efforts to reduce PE output start to bear fruit
Plastics Today
Spot resin trading continued to improve last week, driven by late railcars requiring quick truckloads and processors restocking. Also a factor was solid reseller buying fueled by mismatched supply and demand, as some producers restricted spot sales at favorable pricing while others still had material to move and were willing to deal. Then on Sept. 15, market participants breathed a collective sigh of relief as railroads and unions reached a tentative agreement, averting a rail strike.
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Novel method to detect recycled material in plastic items
AZO Cleantech
Single-use plastic items that are made up of below 30% recycled material are taxed in the U.K. to motivate recycling. Other than the manufacturer’s word, however, there is no other method to confirm this composition.
Scientists have created a basic, fraud-resistant method to assess the recycled content of new plastic items. They incorporated a fluorescent tag into plastic resins to track their quantity in new single use plastics.
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A sea change for plastic pollution: New material biodegrades in ocean water
University of California - San Diego via ScienceDaily
Seeking solutions to counteract a rapid rise in plastic trash, scientists have developed biodegradable material that is designed to replace conventionally used plastic. An interdisciplinary team of researchers has shown that the material biodegrades in seawater.
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Wacker Chemical Corporation
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Promoted By
Extreme Coatings
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Extracting the truth: the importance of complete chemical characterization
Medical Plastics News
Plastics are everywhere in medical device manufacturing. Whether we’re talking about a filter, bag, container, delivery system or implantable device, these days, chances are, plastic is part of the equation. While plastics and polymeric materials can enhance performance and pricing, these materials do carry risk of their own.
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Positive thermomechanical properties in new bioplastic films
AZO Nano
Bioplastics are comprised of polymers obtained from biological sources such as sugar cane, potato starch, and cellulose. The usage of bioplastic films in several applications, including packaging, food safety and consumer electronics, reduces the reliance on fossil fuels and the production of non-biodegradable waste.
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Scientists review thermoplastic microfluid bonding
AZO Materials
In a paper recently published in the journal Materials, researchers reviewed recent developments in the fabrication of thermoplastic microfluidic devices and highlighted current and rising approaches to trigger chemical and/or physical characteristics to suit real-world applications.
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How additive manufacturing can help, not hinder, injection moldability of new designs
Plastics Technology
Ten years ago, there was a broadly accepted and well-defined route that a product developer might travel to take a product from concept to actual part. Generally, that path would include 2D and 3D drawings of the components and their assembly, which would go through various prototyping stages in low-cost, low-volume manufacturing methods like CNC machining or cast urethane molding.
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Promoted by Polyfil
 Polyfil, a Kafrit Group company, together with Kafrit IL and N3Cure (an Israeli based Start Up) provides solutions for UV curing systems and CROSSITOL® masterbatches. Crosslinking enables the production of recyclable packaging with a single-polymer structure (Mono-material), saving costs and reducing the consumption of fossil-based polymers. As a result, it will have a smaller effect on the environment than most plastic solutions.
CROSSITOL® masterbatches can be used in a wide range of applications including cast and blown film extrusion. Its technology is coupled with N3Cure’s curing system to target specific layers for crosslinking, downgauging, and production costs.
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More price drops for recycled paper and plastic
Resource Recycling
The commodities market downturn continues to punish MRFs, with plummeting prices for OCC, mixed paper, PET and HDPE this month.
For OCC , the current price isn’t horrible by historical standards, but the speed at which values have nose-dived over the past couple of months is notable.
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