KM Packaging, a global supplier of flexible packaging and lidding films, has optimised resource efficiency with advanced lidding. The company has harnessed its leading-edge KPeel range of advanced lidding film solutions to develop new, resource efficient, reduced-plastic packaging. The mono-PET film range offers a high-performance, ‘seal and peel’ solution for renewable pulp and pressed board […]
Port Macquarie Foreshore Markets organiser Necia Waghorn says there has been strong support amongst patrons for banning single use plastic bags at the event. The move, Necia said is in line with changes which are also being made by the major shopping centres Coles and Woolworths from July 1. See the latest photos from the […]
Chocking of rivers and other water bodies can be stopped only by imposing a blanket plastic ban, the Maharashtra government told the Bombay high court on Wednesday. “Nowadays, there is plastic everywhere: beaches, rivers, other water bodies… All are flooded with plastic, and it is also chocking our drainage system,” said senior advocate EP Bharucha, […]
CARY, N.C.—Lord Corp. has been bonding rubber to metal and other substrates for more than six decades. But bonding liquid silicone rubber and thermoplastics to other substrates wasn’t quite so simple. To mate thermoplastics to other substrates, traditionally it had to be accomplished using a fastener or structural adhesive. Or you put a hole through […]
Updated: An escalating trade war between the United States and China is hitting the plastics sector with Chinese officials announcing tariffs on 106 U.S. products, including plastics, and the U.S. targeting machinery and molds. Both nations are eyeing a rate of 25 percent. Final numbers and the effective dates of the new tariffs have not […]
MUMBAI: Giving in to the demands of manufacturers, the state government has removed the ban on mini PET bottles less than 500 ml capacity, but stipulated a refundable recycling charge of Rs2 on them. Besides, the government has also decided to extend the deadline for consumers and retailers to dispose of banned items to three […]
West Australian retailers will be barred from giving shoppers single-use plastic bags from next July, with the state becoming the latest Australian jurisdiction to announce a ban. Shoppers will instead be required to bring their own bags or forced to purchase reusable ones from stores under the changes announced by the McGowan Government. Environment Minister […]
Samanvi Bhograj started a manufacturing unit that makes 100 percent biodegradable and compostable tableware products using plant fiber. Plastic has become integral parts of our lives. It has seeped into every little shelf on the corner and has made our lives completely dependent on it. Right from the cradle to the grave most of the products in […]
