Market News North American resins market to reach $4.6 billion in 2018 – Composite Insights June 12, 2013 by plasticsinfomart The demand for resins in the North American reinforced plastics industry is set for good growth between 2013 and 2018 to reach an estimated US$4.6 billion in 2018, according to Composite Insights. The North American reinforced plastics industry is expected to be fully recovered from the recession in next three years, reports market research firm […] Read more »
Product News Amcor Develops Tea Leaf Sculpted PET Bottle For Crystal Geyser's Tejava® Premium Iced Tea June 12, 2013 by plasticsinfomart ANN ARBOR, Mich., June 11, 2013 – Crystal Geyser Water Co., Calistoga, Calif., has introduced its award-winning Tejava® Premium Iced Tea in eye-catching, elegant 18oz polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles from Amcor Rigid Plastics, the world’s leading producer of PET packaging. A cross-functional team from Crystal Geyser and Amcor, consisting of package designers, industrial designers, and […] Read more »
Market News Asia to see new monomer capacities in 2013 June 12, 2013 by plasticsinfomart New monomer capacities are set to come online in Asia through the end of this year as per the pricing service of ChemOrbis. ExxonMobil started up its new cracker at its Singapore petrochemical complex on Jurong Island at the end of May. Construction of the cracker, which has an ethylene capacity of 1 million tons/year, […] Read more »
Material News DSM engineering plastics provide more cost-efficient route to safer circuit breakers June 12, 2013 by plasticsinfomart Royal DSM, the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company, is the first engineering plastics supplier to offer a full portfolio of materials that can replace thermosets in demanding molded-case circuit breakers (MCCBs) with open arc extinguishing chambers. DSM has solutions for all the separate housing components, as well as for the functional internal parts […] Read more »
Industry ASTM Plastics Committee Releases Major Revisions to Resin Identification Code (RIC) Standard June 12, 2013 by plasticsinfomart W. CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa., June 11, 2013– ASTM International Subcommittee D20.95 on Recycled Plastics, part of Committee D20 on Plastics, has approved major enhancements to D7611, Standard Practice for Coding Plastic Manufactured Articles for Resin Identification. ASTM D7611, first issued in 2010, covers the long-standing Resin Identification Code (RIC) system for identifying the various types of […] Read more »
Product News Family Circle biscuits perfectly packed: Weidenhammer produces first IML packaging in the UK June 12, 2013 by plasticsinfomart Hockenheim / Bradford, 11 June 2013 – Since August 2012, Weidenhammer UK, the British subsidiary of the Weidenhammer Packaging Group (WPG), supplies United Biscuits with a high-quality In-Mould Labelling (IML) box for their “Family Circle” biscuits. The square-shaped biscuit box is the first plastic packaging produced by the WPG in its British factory located in […] Read more »
Category Menu News from Leafield Environmental – Rotationally Moulded Cover Generates Savings June 12, 2013 by plasticsinfomart Switchgear Weather Cover moves to Rotational Moulding Rotationally Moulded Cover Generates Savings Acknowledging that the fibre reinforced plastic switchgear cover currently in use was susceptible to damage, SSE was keen to source an alternative, recyclable solution and contacted Leafield Solutions, a division of Leafield Environmental. Leafield Solutions proposed a new type of cover, rotationally moulded […] Read more »
Recycling News Global plastic demand to triple by 2020, forecasts BIR convention June 11, 2013 by plasticsinfomart SHANGHAI : According to BIR Plastics Committee forecast, the demand for world recovered plastic would triple in the next seven years. As per Surendra Borad-the Chairman of the BIR Plastics Committee, the study conducted by the research firm Poyry suggests that annual consumption of plastic will leap from 15 million tonnes in 2007 to 45 […] Read more »
