The essential briefing on materials, markets, regulation, packaging, recycling, and the people moving the plastics industry forward.
In light of the current plastic waste crisis, recycling and reusing this omnipresent, but threatening, material is one of the biggest tactics we can use to lower the amount of waste floating around the environment. A number of initiatives determined to use plastic in the most effective and innovative ways are developing in many places […]
The United States has said South Korean companies were importing a resin used in making plastics at less than fair value. The Commerce Department finding yesterday vindicated a complaint lodged by the Eastman Chemical Company, a major US producer of specialty plastics. An anti-dumping investigation by the department determined Korean imports of Dioctyl terephthalate, or […]
KOTTAYAM, India—Higher prices have contributed to a significant pickup in India’s production and export of natural rubber, the country’s Rubber Board has reported. Production during the last fiscal year reached 690,000 metric tons, well above a forecast level of 654,000 tons and 22.8 percent above the 562,000 tons recorded in 2015-16. NR production this March […]
The US-based company will expand the capacity of Daman facility of Powerband (in which it acquired 74% stake in September 2016) and construct a greenfield facility in the country The US-based Intertape Polymer Group Inc, which manufactures paper and film-based pressure-sensitive tapes for packaging industry, is planning to invest $ 20 million (about Rs 135 […]
The new service centre houses a rotor sharpening workshop for strand pelletisers, which are used to produce plastic resin pellets With an aim to tap the fast-growing plastics processing market in India, Maag, the Switzerland-based manufacturer of gear pumps, pelletising systems, filtration systems and pulverisers, has opened its first sales and service centre in the […]
The value of food and beverage packaging market in India has risen to around $16 bn in 2015 from $12 bn in 2010 Clocking a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of around 16%, the packaged food market in India is expected to have crossed the $51.5 million mark in 2015, said a joint study undertaken […]
Guwahati, Sep 13 (KNN) State Industries and Commerce Minister Chandra Mohan Patowary has said that Assam has huge potential in plastic industry with a massive campaign underway to tap the opportunities. Speaking at the seminar organised by the Federation of Industry and Commerce (FINER), he said “Plastic has become omnipresent in our daily life. In […]
Plastics consumption of India is set to increase from 12 MMT to 20 million MMT per annum by 2020. The Dollar Business Bureau The exports of plastic finished goods are set to almost double from the current $7.9 billion to $15 billion in next five years. The industry is determined to play a significant role […]