Industry

All-electric presses with high-cavity molds boost medical, packaging output.

U.K.-based firm targets its closed-cell, crosslinked foam in aircraft interiors.

The ubiquity of plastics in medical is impressive. The catheter that unblocked my LDA and implanted a stent included an artery-opening balloon that’s usually made of PET or polyamide. It might be possible to do an angioplasty with a plastics-free catheter, but the procedure would be dicey and possibly more invasive.  

US Merchants Leveraging Its Relationship With Machine Maker LSMtron to spur growth

Engel technology rapidly converts up to 100 percent recycled PET into ‘green’ food packaging.

EPR is controversial as environmental policy but may have some redeeming qualities.

Low collection rates of some polymers and looming regulations could upend materials use.

Second-quarter results show mixed signs for the U.S. industry’s key sector.

SABIC grades are for extrusion and thermoforming of battery platforms and components.

Color line combines performance, compatibility, new sites speed product development and supply.

Scientex, a major producer of stretch film and flexible packaging based in Malaysia, worked with resin producer SABIC to develop material for what the partners say is the world’s first flexible food packaging based on advanced recycled ocean-based plastics (OBP), using SABIC’s certified circular polypropylene (PP).

Toray controls the thickness of each nanolayer in its Picasus film to boost advanced mobility performance.