Petrochemical PET PEF Graphene News 07-12-2019 - Arhive
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-Recycling a bright spot for compounding extruder suppliers
Compounding extruder suppliers report U.S. business was flat or down in 2019, reflecting a weaker automotive business and some general delays in capital investments — but recycling lines and turnkey systems are holding up.
Meanwhile, big extrusion lines for manufacturing polyolefins have been a bright spot.
Even though several compounding equipment makers say the market is more difficult, they don’t see a return to the big cyclical swings that the sector experienced before the Great Recession of 2008-09.
-Indorama Ventures acquires Green Fiber International
Green Fiber International has the capacity to produce 40,000 metric tons of rPET annually.
Indorama Ventures Public Co. Ltd., a global chemical manufacturer based in Bangkok, has acquired Green Fiber International Inc. (GFI), a recycling company in Fontana, California. The facility can produce 40,000 metric tons per year of recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) flakes, Indorama Ventures states in a news release on the acquisition.
This acquisition extends Indorama Ventures’ recycled flake supply chain to the West Coast, the company says. GFI offers high-quality rPET bottle flakes that can be used to manufacture food-contact materials. Petrochemical PET PEF Graphene
The company’s rPET flakes have been used in the U.S. West Coast packaging market since 2018.
-Stadler develops delabeler to address plastic sorting issue
Delabelers can significantly increase the output and purity rates of recycled plastic bottles, Stadler says.
Stadler, Altshausen, Germany, invests 5 percent of its revenue every year in research and development to search for ways to maximize the efficiency of the recycling process and the quality of the output. When the company saw an opportunity to improve the process for plastic bottles, it developed a specific solution to remove the labels, according to a company news release.Petrochemical PET PEF Graphene
Rok Mežič, head of research and development Slovenia, who led the development process of the machine, explains, “Bottles make up a large proportion of plastic waste, and they present a particular issue to the recycling industry: the labels are made of a different polymer and color than the bottles, which negatively affects the accuracy of the sorting process.
-rPlanet Earth : Recycle Thermoform PET Packaging
rPlanet Earth, Green Impact Plastics to Recycle Thermoform PET Packaging
Under a new agreement, the companies will jointly develop and manage the purchase of post-consumer thermoform bales from California and other southern states that have cost-effective transportation logistics.Petrochemical PET PEF Graphene
The largest fully integrated cradle-to-cradle polyethylene terephthalate (PET) packaging company in California—rPlanet Earth—is engaging with Green Impact Plastics in an exclusive agreement to jointly develop and manage the purchase of post-consumer thermoform bales from California and other southern states that have cost-effective transportation logistics.
-New Anellotech Technology Tackles Plastics Pollution by Recycling Plastic Waste Into Chemicals
Sustainable technology company Anellotech is significantly expanding its program with Plas-TCatTM, a new process technology aiming to convert a wide range of plastic waste directly into chemicals – which can then be used to make new, virgin plastics.
95% of plastic packaging material is annually lost to the economy after a single use and often ends up in combustors, landfills or polluting the ocean. Petrochemical PET PEF Graphene
By leveraging Anellotech’s existing Bio-TCatTM process – which converts biomass into bio-based chemicals and biofuels – Plas-TCat has demonstrated encouraging results in lab studies using pure plastics.
-Europe December PE business gets under way, imports still a hot topic
Polyethylene (PE) discussions have begun in Europe for December business. Some early settlements have been made amid a wide range of reported imported prices.
A clear demarcation between spot and contracted volumes has developed. Buyers continue to purchase from suppliers to trigger year-end volume rebates – often shunning low spot prices in the quest for the rebate, which is often applicable to the total volume bought annually.Petrochemical PET PEF Graphene
A two-tier situation can even be seen in the spot market. New traders are offering material from producers – with new capacity in the USA and no assets in Europe – with these tending to be at the low end. In contrast, local European and US sellers with assets in Europe, tend to be making offers at the high end. The difference between the two can be almost as much as €100/tonne.
-First Dornbirn-GFC congress Asia to be held in Mar 2020
Austrian Fibers Institute, Korean Textile Federation (KOFOTI) and Dyeing & Finishing Technology Institute (DYETEC), are cooperating for 1st Dornbirn-GFC Asia fibre innovation congress, which will be held at Samsung Creative Innovation Center in Daegu/South Korea from March 3-4, 2020. An agreement on this cooperation was signed on October 21, 2019 in Portugal.Petrochemical PET PEF Graphene
Around 300 to 400 participants from the whole textile chain are expected to join this event. This special event should improve the network activities with Asian companies.
-OPEC debates deeper production cuts to push up oil price
The countries that make up the OPEC oil-producing cartel are meeting Thursday to decide whether to cut production even further in order to support the price of fuel and energy around the world.Petrochemical PET PEF Graphene
The group is expected to prolong production cuts they’ve agreed on for the past three years, and some experts believe they could deepen them to support prices. The price of crude has been capped in recent years by a resurgence in supplies from countries outside OPEC, particularly the United States.
-Techtextil, Texprocess Americas to snapshot industry future
The largest event for technical textiles, nonwovens, machinery, sewn products and equipment in the Americas returns to Atlanta, May 12-14, 2020.
The themes for the 2020 editions are ‘Converging Technologies’ and ‘Igniting Progress’, emphasising the events’ reputations as catalysts for modern textile manufacturing. Each show’s features will highlight the important contributions of product and process innovators to moving the industry forward.Petrochemical PET PEF Graphene
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