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Prices flat for PE; Down for PP, PS, PVC; up for PET
Plastics Technology
A halt in the pricing plunge for PE, PP, and PS appeared to be shaping up going into November, owing primarily to suppliers reducing their swollen inventories by throttling back production rates and, in the case of PE, multiplying attractive offers for exports and the domestic spot market. Still, first-quarter 2023 looks to be a buyer’s market for all five major commodity resins.
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Resin price report: Strike would derail supply chain
Plastics Today
Railcar trading outpaced truckload orders during the three-day work week, shortened by the Thanksgiving holiday, as some processors have been slowly rebuilding resin stocks at current advantageous prices, reports the PlasticsExchange in its Market Update.
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University of Michigan team recycles previously unrecyclable plastic
University of Michigan
PVC, or polyvinyl chloride, is one of the most produced plastics in the U.S. and the third highest by volume in the world.
PVC makes up a vast amount of plastics we use on a daily basis. Much of the plastic used in hospital equipment — tubing, blood bags, masks and more — is PVC, as is most of the piping used in modern plumbing.
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Wacker Chemical Corporation
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Extreme Coatings
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Going back to basics yields a printable, transparent plastic that's highly conductive
Georgia Tech
It was a simple idea — maybe even too simple to work.
Research scientist James Ponder and a team of Georgia Tech chemists and engineers thought they could design a transparent polymer film that would conduct electricity as effectively as other commonly used materials, while also being flexible and easy to use at an industrial scale.
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Novel 3D printing method to fabricate complex metal-plastic composite structures
Waseda University via ScienceDaily
In recent years, research interest in the 3D printing of metal patterns on plastic parts has grown exponentially, due to its high potential in the manufacturing of next-generation electronics. But fabricating such complex parts through conventional means is not easy. Now, researchers have developed a new 3D printing process for the fabrication of 3D metal-plastic composite structures with complex shapes.
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What's happening with chemical recycling for plastic packaging?
Plastics Today
While still in its infancy, chemical recycling aka advanced recycling for plastics saw significant activity in 2022, with numerous announcements about strategic partnerships, projects, investments and new products.
According to the new report “Chemical Recycling and Dissolution of Plastics 2023-2033” from IDTechEx, “There is a beneficial role for these processes, although perhaps overstated by many. The tailwinds are so great that significant mid-term growth is inevitable though still modest relative to the full scale of the annual plastic waste production.”
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How scientists plan to upcycle plastic waste in space
Screen Rant
Plastic waste is a nagging problem both on Earth and in space, but a team is now experimenting with a novel method for converting discarded PET into useful material while floating aboard a station in space. Short for polyethylene terephthalate, PET is the most commonly used form of plastic on Earth, and it is used in everything from plastic bottles and fabrics to automotive parts and even spacecraft applications.
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Engineering plastics are becoming sustainable, attaining circularity
Design News
Discussions by organizations promoting a circular, cradle-to-cradle, sustainable plastics economy often address packaging and single-use materials, not engineering plastics and polymers. That's because these constitute by far the highest volumes, especially of plastics polluting the environment. Plastic pollution continues to grow faster than waste management and recycling efforts, says the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
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Feasibility of gasifying mixed plastic waste for hydrogen production and carbon capture and storage
Nature
Waste plastic gasification for hydrogen production combined with carbon capture and storage is one technology option to address the plastic waste challenge. Here, we conducted a techno-economic analysis and life cycle assessment to assess this option. The minimum hydrogen selling price of a 2000 oven-dry metric ton/day mixed plastic waste plant with carbon capture and storage is US$2.26–2.94 kg−1 hydrogen, which can compete with fossil fuel hydrogen with carbon capture and storage and current electrolysis hydrogen.
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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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It's cheaper to manufacture plastic products in Ohio than in China, report claims
Plastics Today
The world isn’t as flat as it used to be. Back in 2005 when The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Friedman hit bookstores, the one-two punch of globalization and China’s emergence as the world’s workshop seemed an unstoppable force. The view is very different from the perspective of 2022, and a report from Shale Crescent USA released last month makes the case that offshoring is a spent force.
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