Category Menu Product News Travelers : launches new plastics package October 5, 2011 by plasticsinfomart Travelers has announced the launch of a new insurance product for the plastics industry. This is part of their strategy to widen their product offering and to provide focused underwriting for customers and brokers in elected business sectors. The product will provide a range of commercial covers including Property Damage, Business Interruption, Employers’ Liability, Public […] Read more »
Category Menu Machinery News Bio-products could fuel Dan River Region economy October 5, 2011 by plasticsinfomart Biorenewable products, like bio-plastic, could help bring industry and jobs to Southside, scientists said. “This industry is growing really fast,” said Egle Thomas, director of business development at the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research. Thomas held up a prescription bottle to attendees of The Network’s first lunch meeting Tuesday. She said a company called […] Read more »
Category Menu Product News Avoid using plastic bags, Styrofoam October 5, 2011 by plasticsinfomart Are you aware of what’s going into your trash? Many people toss things in the garbage and don’t think twice. Here’s a second thought: How long does it take garbage to decompose? Decomposition rates depend on the climate and environmental conditions, product composition, and surrounding materials. In 2008, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration used […] Read more »
End Markets Processes LightManufacturing Launches First Solar Thermal Energy Solution for Plastics Molding October 4, 2011 by plasticsinfomart SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–California-based LightManufacturing LLC introduces solar thermal technology and turnkey manufacturing systems for molding plastic. The company’s unique “Solar Rotational Molding” systems, launched in June, promise to transform rotational molding from a smokestack industry that emits over 3.6 billion pounds of greenhouse gasses a year into a sustainability model citizen — and […] Read more »
Environment Recycling News Canadian Plastics Recycler Wins Award October 4, 2011 by plasticsinfomart Polymer Research Technologies (PRT), a polyurethanes recycling company based in Vancouver, B.C., beat out 178 competitors to win the top award of $130,000 in the 11th Annual British Columbia Innovation Counsel- New Ventures Competition. PRT’s technology takes pre- and post-consumer polyurethane waste and recycles it into a non-toxic, high-quality and low-cost polyol product, called Recyclopo. […] Read more »
Category Menu Machinery News ThinStream technology allows label die-cutting as thin as 12 microns October 4, 2011 by plasticsinfomart Avery Dennison, a pressure-sensitive label material manufacturer based in the US, announced on September 28 that it has, in collaboration with printing solutions supplier Gallus Group, developed a new die-cutting technology ThinStream, which allows the die-cutting of labels with a liner as thin as 12 microns. The ThinStream technology separates the face stock from the […] Read more »
Category Menu Product News Efforts to ban non-biodegradable plastic bags hit a speed bump October 4, 2011 by plasticsinfomart Only one facility to test for key breakdown element exists in country Dubai: A lack of testing facilities in the UAE to check if degradable plastic bags contain the key breakdown ingredient could be slowing down the nationwide effort to ban non-degradable plastic by the end of the year. Only one laboratory exists in the […] Read more »
Category Menu Product News Recycled Plastic Bottles Used As Sneaker Fabric October 4, 2011 by plasticsinfomart New Balance’s upcoming sneaker, newSKY, is partly made out of a material called Eco-fi, which is created using post-consumer plastic bottles. This is used for the upper of the new sneaker and it is manufactured from 95% PET plastic bottles, with eight bottles needed to make one pair. The plastic bottles are chopped into flakes […] Read more »