A noted recycling industry leader with close to five decades of experience, Genius Machinery has recently introduced its new plastic washing recycling line for the South American market. The most ...

The Dutch plastics recycling company Van Werven has added a plastics recycling line at its facility in Biddinghuizen, Netherlands, allowing it to handle a greater variety of rigid plastics. In a news ...

This content was paid for by an advertiser and created by Crain's Custom Content. In the competitive landscape of plastics processing, where innovation and reliability are paramount, Milacron stands ...

Warrendale, Pa.-based HydroBlox Technologies Inc. will open a third manufacturing plant for its stormwater drainage products, which are made from all-recycled material in a unique process with ...

ACI Plastics, in partnership with Luxembourg-based Ravago, has renovated one of its facilities in Flint, Michigan, as well as added a film processing line to that facility. The company has one ...

Plastic bottles and bags can be vaporised into chemical building blocks and turned into new plastics with all the properties of virgin material. There are hurdles still to overcome, but the new ...

Advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), Big Data, and high-tech sensors are changing the dynamics of plastics processing by providing tools that learn from one another and make ...

Note: Eastman Chemical Company’s first “molecular recycling” facility is now fully operational in Kingsport. It uses a process called methanolysis to reduce hard-to-recycle waste plastic to its ...

We know that most plastics thrown into the recycling bin don’t get recycled, but what about the ones that do? According to new research, those also end up spitting bits of plastic back into the ...

Editor?s note: Chris Rauwendaal is a designer, consultant, and seminar instructor who has written extensively on process engineering and extrusion topics. Part 1 of this article (PM&A Nov./Dec. 2002) ...

In phase 1, specific microorganisms, like bacteria and fungi, colonize the surface of the plastic material. These microorganisms can either be present naturally in the environment or added ...