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Victrex further enhances solution provider capability following acquisition of Kleiss Gears

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Thornton Cleveleys (UK), 21July2015: Victrex is further enhancing its ability to provide complete ‘integrated’ solutions following its acquisition of US-based polymer gears specialistKleiss Gears. The acquisition by Victrex, the leading global PEEKpolymer-based solutions provider, will help facilitate the rapid development of answers to key challenges facing customers across industries, including enhanced durability and reliability, better […]

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Chicago plastic bag ban to go into effect on August 1st

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The ban on single-use plastics bags will go into effect in Chicago this August onwards. However, it will be applicable only to large chain stores and franchise stores in the initial phase. CHICAGO (Scrap Monster): Chicago city’s ban on single-use plastic bag is to go into effect on August 1st. The bill passed in April […]

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Amcor Rigid Plastics wins AmeriStar Award for hot-fill PET bottle for PepsiCo-Lipton Tea

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Amcor Rigid Plastics struck gold in the beverage/non-alcoholic category in the AmeriStar Package Awards Competition sponsored by the Institute of Packaging Professionals (IoPP). IoPP gave the award to Amcor for its development of an ultra-lightweight, hot-fill polyethylene terephthalate (PET) container designed exclusively for PepsiCo-Lipton’s tea drink brand in Central America. It was initially launched in […]

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adidas creates world’s first shoe upper made of 100% ocean waste

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Sports brand adidas recently announced a partnership with Parley for the Oceans and showcased a footwear made of plastics waste collected from the ocean. On June 30, Parley Talks titled “Oceans. Climate. Life.” were hosted by the United Nations (UN) in New York, the US at the General Assembly Hall, on the occasion of a […]

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Indonesian players react to new regulations on using the rupiah

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According to ChemOrbis, Players in Indonesia are beginning to voice their reactions to new regulations mandating the use of the rupiah in local transactions. The new regulation went into effect as of July 1. Prior to this, most local transactions in Indonesia’s polymer market had been concluded in dollars. Indonesia’s central bank said that the […]

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Plastic News India Reports The Formation, Objectives And Activities Of Gupa

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India may be a part of the developing nations, but any activity which happens in India has a global impact, and therefore, even the most developed nations of the world like the US and UK, are always keen on building stronger ties in all fields with India. Just like the importance of India in the […]

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Reifenhäuser Cast Sheet Coating sells Europe’s widest cast film line

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Troisdorf, June 30, 2015 | In the production of BOPP they have long since been standard: Lines of widths beyond 4,000 millimeters. In the production of CPP, these widths were unusual in the past. However, this is increasingly changing due to a growing pressure on the prices –notably for volume applications such as metallizable and […]

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Kraiburg TPE in WOPEX color pencils from Staedtler

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Kraiburg TPE’s THERMOLAST K compound is also being used for the WOPEX colored pencil series of Staedtler. The soft compound has been used on Staedtler’s WOPEX pencil series for more than five years. The base material of WOPEX is a natural fiber composite material, whose composition is 70% wood and 30% polymers and additives. THERMOLAST […]

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