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Specialty and Sustainable Materials for Packaging to Be Showcased by Avient at Propak Vietnam 2024
Avient Corporation, a premier provider of specialty and sustainable materials solutions and services, will showcase its extensive range of sustainable and specialty colorants and additives for both rigid and flexible packaging at Propak Vietnam 2024, one of Vietnam’s premier trade fairs for the packaging industry. The exhibition runs from today through April 5th.
At the event, Avient will feature its latest polymer additive innovations for post-consumer recycled (PCR) resins, such as recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) and polyolefins. These innovations include Avient’s PCR Color Prediction Service, ColorForward™ 2025, and new grades of polymer additives for flexible film. Avient is dedicated to helping customers enhance the quality and functionality of their packaging while simultaneously improving its sustainability. Sustainable Packaging
“Manufactures and consumers are increasingly demanding better recyclability efforts from the packaging industry,” said Say-Eng Lee, Vice President and General Manager, Color & Additives Asia for Avient. “As a packaging materials specialist, we strive to improve production efficiency, provide sustainability support, and offer innovative materials and technologies that benefit our customers globally.”
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Specialists at an Iranian knowledge-based company succeeded in producing antibacterial fibers and thread by using nanotechnology.
“The knowledge-based product of our company is fancy yarn which is often used in the fashion and clothes industry,” Haman Shahbakhti, the managing director of the knowledge-based company, told ANA.
“We managed to produce four different types of fibers with nanotechnology that are antibacterial,” he added. Sustainable Packaging
“We were able to equip various fibers, including cellulose and viscose yarns, with permanent color stability by using nanotechnology after obtaining the necessary licenses,” Shahbakhti said.
Noting that antibacterial fibers enjoy self-cleaning properties, he said, “When these fibers are exposed to sunlight, they are disinfected and self-cleaned.”
Iranian technologists in textile industry had also earlier succeeded in production of antibacterial nano polyester yarn. Sustainable Packaging
Polyester fibers enjoy high strength, low water absorption and minimal water loss compared to other industrial fibers and are widely used in the clothing industry.
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In the European market, ethylene prices have recently softened despite previous firm pricing
This trend is notable even in the face of high upstream and energy prices. Let’s delve into the details:
- Market Situation:
- Subdued Fundamentals: Persistent market fundamentals remain subdued due to geopolitical risks and dwindling end-sales.
- Discounts Applied: Price hikes have been kept in check as discounts were applied to deals. Sustainable Packaging
- Weak Demand Outlook: Market participants anticipate softer ethylene prices in the upcoming weeks, citing a weak demand outlook.
- Potential Supply Relief: There is hope for potential relief in supply.
- German Market Insights:
- Declining Ethylene Prices: In the German market, ethylene prices have significantly declined. Buyers are cautious, and muted derivative orders persist.
- Polyethylene Industry Demand: Demand for ethylene from the downstream polyethylene industry has been average within the domestic market.
- Consumption Slowdown: Consumption from end-user packaging and the plastic industry has slowed down toward the end of March 2024.
- Import Cargo Expectations: Consumers are ready to wait for the arrival of import cargoes in April 2024. Sustainable Packaging
Plastics Recycling Conference 2024: The more things change …
Reclaimers discuss their successes and the ongoing challenges they face.
The plastics recycling industry has changed considerably in the last 40 years. Despite that, it remains a difficult industry that has claimed many companies over time, according to panelists at the Plastics Recycling Conference session Reality Check with Reclaimers.
Scott Saunders, general manager of high-density polytheleyene (HDPE) and polypropylene (PP) KW Plastics, Troy, Alabama, said when his company first began recycling plastics in 1981, equipment wasn’t commercially available. “You had to design it yourself or adapt equipment designed for another industry.” Sustainable Packaging
He added that customers had KW sign nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) because they didn’t want people to know they used recycled content. “Now, we sign NDAs because they don’t want people to know who they are getting their PCR [postconsumer resin] from.”
Brian King, executive vice president of marketing at HDPE and PP recycler Advanced Drainage Systems (ADS), Hilliard, Ohio, said that company began recycling in the 1970s as a competitive advantage from a pricing perspective. He said ADS was quiet about its use of recycled content “because we didn’t think anyone would want a recycled product.”
Now the company is vocal about its use of recycled content and its recycling operations because it is a great story, he said. “It’s amazing the number of jobs we create and bottles we keep out of landfill.” Sustainable Packaging
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Recyclers Recovered Five Billion Pounds Of Post-Consumer Plastic For Recycling
Recyclers recovered just over five billion pounds of post-consumer plastic for recycling in the U.S. in 2022 with the vast majority staying in North America to be processed and remanufactured into new products, according to new data released by the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR), ISRI, and the U.S. Plastics Pact. Prepared by Stina Inc., and based on surveys conducted by Stina Inc. and the National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR), the 2022 U.S. Post-consumer Plastic Recycling Data Dashboard details U.S. sourced post-consumer plastic recovered for recycling.
North American reclaimers acquired 93.7 percent of plastic recovered for recycling in the U.S. while export overseas fell to 6.3 percent. Sustainable Packaging
Although total volumes recovered were down by 1.4 percent (71.2 million pounds), U.S. reclaimers acquired 21.4 million pounds more U.S. sourced post-consumer plastic over 2021, for a total of 4,307.8 million pounds or 85.9 percent of the total.
The 2022 data shows that the five billion pounds of plastic recovered in 2022 include Bottles (2,784 million pounds, 55.5 percent of total); Non-Bottle Rigids (1,111.8 million pounds, 22.2 percent of total), Film (1,110.3 million pounds, 22.1 percent of total) and “Other Plastics” (11 million pounds, 0.2 percent of total).
While the volumes reported as recovered for recycling in Non-bottle Rigids and Film categories held steady or increased in 2022, as compared to 2021, the volumes in Bottle and Other Plastics categories decreased. Sustainable Packaging
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Life Cycle Assessment – GM has developed an innovative cooling system for electric car batteries, inspired by the famous game Tetris 03-04-2024
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