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Holland City mulls over roads made from recycled plastic

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Plastic litter in oceans could soon be used in building ‘plastic’ roads. The City of Rotterdam in Holland has tied up with Dutch company VolkerWessels to develop plastic road from recycled plastic SPOKANE (Scrap Monster): The City of Rotterdam in Holland, in partnership with Dutch company VolkerWessels, is at its early stages of utilizing recycled […]

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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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Nestle Waters North America launches bottles made with 100% recycled plastic

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resource Natural Spring Water has launched new bottles that are made of 100% recycled plastic. SEATTLE (Scrap Monster): The premium natural spring water brand resource Natural Spring Water has announced the launch of new bottles that are made with 100% recycled plastic. According to company officials, use of recycled PETs will help improve recycling rates […]

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Spot ethylene prices plunge in Asia on rising supply levels

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Spot ethylene prices plunged in Asia during this past week. Although spot naphtha prices are suggesting only minor changes week over week, the steep drops in ethylene costs were due to easing supply levels as crackers resumed operations in June following maintenance shutdowns, according to ChemOrbis. Spot ethylene prices slumped by around $100/ton on CFR […]

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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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BASF opens first online store on Alibaba platform in China

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BASF has established an online store on China’s Alibaba e-commerce platform for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME), who can use Alipay, a mature payment platform in the country to carry out transactions. SMEs that produce goods such as household electric appliances, coatings and ink, feed and packaged food and beverages as well as textile and […]

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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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Arburg’s Freeformer wins Plast Platinum Award 2015

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Arburg was awarded the Plast Platinum Award medal in the plastics processing machines and systems category at Plastpol 2015, which took place in Kielce, Poland from May 26-29. Dr Slamowir Sniady, Managing Director of Arburg Polska Sp. z o o. accepted the award for the Freeformer, being recognized as the most innovative system for industrial […]

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