Plastic Petrochemicals recycling automotive 19-10-2018 - Arhive
-China – Polyethylene Terephthalate and the prices of its chain continue to be weak,with the exception of MEG.
PET Bottle grade export 1,220/1,260 $/ton – PET Bottle grade domestic market 9,650/9,750 yuan/ton – PET Filament grade SD domestic market 9,500/9,650 yuan/ton – PET Filament grade BR domestic market 9,500/9,650 yuan/ton
PTA Taiwan 970/980 $/ton – PTA domestic market 7,150/7,300 yuan/ton – MEG $ 855/865 $/ton – MEG domestic market 7,200/7,350 yuan/ton – PX Korea 1,235/1,250 $/ton
POY 150D/48F domestic market 10,900/11,050 yuan/ton – DTY 150D/48F domestic market 12,450/12,550 yuan/ton – PSF domestic market 10,500/10,650 yuan/ton
At the Fakuma show in Germany, Victrex, a world leading PAEK expert, is providing further proof points that the company is more than “just” a high- performance polymer (HPP) producer.Victrex Fakuma Pioneering Polymer Solutions
A new broad food grade portfolio, a novel solution for e-motors and gears in automotiv
e, impellers in electronic home appliances, investments in building a supply chain for the use of thermoplastic composite parts for aerospace as well as partnerships in Additive Manufacturing (AM), with new AM PAEK products in development, are all representative indicators that the global company is progressing solutions based on VICTREX™ PAEK polymers
Polyamide 6.6 producer Ascend Performance Materials (Houston, Texas / USA; www.ascendmaterials.com) has developed a material called “Vydyne R433H” for reinforcing down-gauged steel and aluminium used in used in vehicle body in white (BIW) structures.ASCEND PA 66 automotive Fakuma
The BIW accounts for nearly half the weight of a vehicle, noted Vikram Gopal, Ascend’s senior VP of technology, and the new PA 6.6 grade helps reduce weight without compromising safety or comfort
-Crude Oil Prices Trend
-Threat of sanctions against Saudi Arabia hang in the air over Khashoggi disappearance
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As evidence mounts that Saudi Arabia is responsible for the murder and dismemberment of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the potential for sanctions against the middle-eastern kingdom mounts.
Saudi Arabia recently shut down new trade and investment with Canada over a diplomatic spat
Investors are said to be worried any cutback on oil production by the kingdom could cause a global energy crisis
BASF offered commitments to meet concerns of the EU Commission
Transaction to complement BASF’s engineering plastics portfolio and ensure backward integration into key raw materials Plastic Petrochemicals recycling automotive
In September 2017, BASF and Solvay agreed that BASF would acquire Solvay’s polyamide business subject to approval of the relevant merger control authorities.
The approval process of the EU Commission is ongoing.
To meet the concerns of the EU Commission, BASF has offered to refrain from acquiring certain parts of Solvay’s European polyamide business including innovation capabilities and manufacturing assets of Solvay’s intermediate and engineering plastics business.
-C.L.A.S.S. supports Textile Exchange’s sustainability conference
This year’s Textile Exchange’s Sustainability Conference will be held in Milan later this month. The conference offers an opportunity to connect with industry pioneers and learn about cutting edge solutions and innovations in textile and apparel sustainability. The theme of the 2018 conference is United by Action: Accelerating Sustainability in Textiles and Fashion.
C.L.A.S.S., headquartered in Milan, the global resource for smart material innovation, education, marketing and communication, will be on hand to support this year’s theme.
-Fibematics is ahead of the curve on nonwovens
After 50 years, Fibematics’ focus on repurposing nonwovens is paying dividends while keeping millions of pounds of textiles out of landfill
A s a niche market in the textile recycling industry, nonwovens quietly continue to keep hundreds of millions of pounds of materials out of landfills. One company has grown over the past five decades to become one of the largest in the industry in purchasing nonwoven “seconds” from major U.S. mills. Established in 1968, Fibematics Inc. began manufacturing Scrim Reinforced Material (SRM) and converting nonwoven wiping products in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and has since expanded its business to include wiping product conversion in southern California. The company is celebrating its fifty-year anniversary in 2018.
-What Killed The Oil Price Rally?
Oil prices fell to a one-month low on Wednesday, pushed down by a rather bearish report from the EIA that showed a large increase in crude inventories.
Brent briefly dipped below $80 per barrel and WTI was back below $70 per barrel as of Wednesday afternoon.
The EIA said that crude oil inventories rose by 6.5 million barrels in the week ending on October 12. Crude stocks have actually been rising since mid-September, and are now back up to 416.4 million barrels. The four consecutive weeks of inventory gains is the longest streak since early 2017.
-Is Amcor’s LiquiForm® the next notable disruptor?
A Diamond Finalist in Dow’s 2018 Awards for Packaging Innovation, and a 2018 Sustainability Awards Finalist in Machinery at Packaging Europe (winner announced 10/23/18), LiquiForm replaces the conventional blow molding and filling 2-step operation by forming and filling in one-step.
-Coexpan to Increase Recycled Content of its Pet Products to 70% by 2025
COEXPAN endorses the commitment announced by PET Sheet Europe, the association that brings together Europe’s leading PET sheet producers, to guarantee that their products will have a mean recycled content of 70% by the year 2025.
This ambitious undertaking aims to meet the goals laid down in the EU Plastics Strategy while also calling upon the relevant authorities to take specific actions in terms of legislation to guarantee market stability and the sustainable growth of the industry.
-Brittpac Launch New Range of Pet Paint Cans Using Rpet
After a number of customer trials, Brittpac have launched a comprehensive range of PET paint cans with and without handles using rPET aimed at the £2.3 billion UK Paint and DIY Market.
The market for Paint, Wallcoverings and Woodcare has seen considerable improvement over the past five years. New housing initiatives, government commitment to increasing housing supply and property transactions have been the key drivers. The paint and effects market have seen significant growth of 12% in recent years. The woodcare market has done even better with a 17% increase over the same period.
-Adient Aerospace officially begins operations
Boeing and Adient have announced that their aircraft seating joint venture, Adient Aerospace, has secured regulatory approvals and is now officially operational. The venture is developing a portfolio of seats for line-fit and retrofit, beginning with lie-flat business class seating for wide-body aircraft.
Adient is a major player in automotive seating and is keen to get involved in the commercial aircraft seating sector, forecast by industry analysts to grow from approximately US$4.5 billion in 2017 to US$6 billion by 2026. Entering the aerospace sector is intended to help Adient achieve its goal of achieving US$1 billion in annual revenues from non-automotive markets over the next five years, while Adient Aerospace intends to offer the aircraft seating sector greater capacity and quality.
-P&G venture working to create sustainable recycling loop
A joint venture between Procter & Gamble and Italian healthcare group Angelini is working to create a sustainable recycling loop that would allow dirty diapers to be turned into plastic bottle caps and viscose clothing.
More than 20 million tonnes of disposable diapers are burned or dumped in landfills globally every year – a major environmental problem since their use became widespread in the 1960s and 1970s.
Part of the problem is that collecting, cleaning and breaking diapers into their component parts – plastic, cellulose and superabsorbent polymer – is tricky and expensive.
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-First Commercial Bioplastics Plant Based on Thyssenkrupp’s Pla Process is Commissioned in China
The COFCO bioplastics plant with the PLA (polylactide) technology from thyssenkrupp’s polymer specialists Uhde Inventa-Fischer Source: thyssenkrupp
thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions (Essen, Germany; www.thyssenkrupp-industrial-solutions.com) announced that the world’s first commercial plant based on the company’s patented manufacturing process for the bioplastic polylactide (PLA) — the PLAneo technology — recently started production in Changchun, China.
It is operated by the Jilin COFCO Biomaterial Corporation, a subsidiary of COFCO, China’s largest food and beverage group. The new plant produces all standard PLA types, among other things for the production of eco-friendly packaging, fibers, textiles and engineering plastics.
-IACMI consortium aims to close the loop on automotive carbon fiber prepreg scrap
Carbon fiber recycling start up Vartega leads a project to close the loop on automotive carbon fiber prepreg manufacturing scrap for use in new automotive applications.
The Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI, Knoxville, TN, US), a 160+ member, University of Tennessee (Knoxville, TN, US) and US Department of Energy (Washington, DC, US) driven consortium committed to increasing domestic production capacity and manufacturing jobs across the US composites industry, announced on Oct. 16 a project to close the loop on automotive carbon fiber prepreg manufacturing scrap for use in new automotive applications.
-Quality From Fiber To Fabric: USTER Completes Integration Of EVS
USTER, Switzerland —Quality solutions across the full range of primary textile production – from fiber to finished fabric – are now offered by Uster Technologies, following the successful integration of automated inspection systems from EVS. This expansion of capability means USTER is unique as the world’s only supplier of high-tech instruments for quality monitoring and management in spinning, weaving, knitting, finishing and nonwovens. The three EVS systems for vision-based fabric inspection are now presented under USTER branding.
-Loop Industries Seeks To Bring New Era In Sustainable Plastics
The company recently entered into a multi-year supply agreement with PepsiCo and a joint venture with Indorama Ventures.
Loop Industries is seeking to bring to market what they call the ‘upcycled’ plastics economy. Loop has emerged with truly transformational technology that allows no and low value plastics to be diverted, recovered and recycled endlessly into new, virgin-quality Loop PET plastic.
Loop announced a joint venture with petrochemical company Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited to manufacture and commercialize sustainable polyester resin to meet the growing global demand from beverage and consumer packaged goods companies. This partnership brings together Indorama Venture’s manufacturing footprint and Loop’s proprietary science and technology.
-Reviewed European Bioeconomy Strategy strengthens defossilisation of plastics sector
The European Commission recently delivered its review of the 2012 European Bioeconomy Strategy. The strategy is a step forward towards ensuring that fossil resources are replaced by sustainable natural alternatives for the production of bio-based products such as bio-based plastics and energy. ‘Only by driving the transition in relevant markets, it will be possible to reach Europe’s climate change mitigation goals’, says Hasso von Pogrell, Managing Director at European Bioplastics (EUBP). ‘Implementation of the key actions of the updated Bioeconomy Strategy is paramount to making this happen’.
The strategy focuses on the importance of a stable regulatory framework as well as on research and innovation to accelerate the growth of the bioeconomy, which is already worth around 2,1 trillion euros in annual turnover in Europe. Specifically, the bioplastics industry not only helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but also contributes to employment growth in Europe and to the development of rural areas. ‘The bioplastics industry is a main driver of the bioeconomy,’ says Mr von Pogrell. ‘According to a study of EuropaBio, it accounts for about 23,000 jobs in Europe. With suitable investment and regulatory frameworks, this number could increase by 2030 with up to 300,000 high skilled jobs’.
-A glimpse at the technology inside rPlanet Earth
A huge PET recycling plant has begun operations in the Los Angeles area, and details have been released about equipment working in the vertically integrated facility.
The Vernon, Calif. rPlanet Earth facility has come on-line, one year after Plastics Recycling Update first wrote about the 302,000-square-foot facility a year ago.
The plant, which had its official grand opening on Oct. 11, takes in bales of post-consumer PET and processes them into bottle preforms, sheet and thermoform packaging.
The final products can contain a range of recycled content, up to 100 percent RPET.
In addition to its variable speed compressors, Tecumseh has added Tecumseh IntelliSC to its Tecumseh IntelliCOOL technology platform. Developed to work together, these components enable design engineers to turn their next generation variable-capacity refrigeration ideas into reality.
Tecumseh Products Company, LLC. added Tecumseh IntelliSC, an intelligent system controller, to its Tecumseh IntelliCOOL technology platform offerings. Tecumseh IntelliSC is a full-featured intelligent system controller with a remote user interface and display. Out of the box, Tecumseh IntelliSC is enhanced for use with Tecumseh’s variable speed compressors and IntelliCI inverters. These features include both an isolated frequency compressor-speed interface and a highly configurable algorithm to reduce overall energy consumption.
-Tight seals protect quality and aroma
Coffee bags and capsules rely on ultrasonic sealing.
Show Daily Exclusive – Whether packaged in capsules or bags, ultrasonic sealing protects whole bean or ground coffee. The tools do not heat up, making this technology gentle on both packaging material and product.
CAPSULE LINERS, LIDS
One of the main indicators of a quality coffee is the crema. When using a coffee capsule, filter material ultrasonically welded onto the bottom of the capsule produces the crema. This process is called embedding.
The polyethylene terephthalate (PET) filter liner has a higher melting point than the polypropylene (PP) material of the capsules. As a result, the PP reacts more quickly to the ultrasonic vibrations, becomes viscous and flows into the PET. The resulting strong connection keeps the filter in position and ensures a high-quality crema even at high brewing pressure.
SEOUL, South Korea – Hyosung TNC, the textile and trading unit arm of Hyosung (KRX:004800) is turning its global spandex production bases into smartfactories in preparation for the era of Industry 4.0.
Recently, it established smart factory systems in the spandex plants inQuzhou, Jiaxing, Guangdong and Zhuhai in China and Dong Nai in Vietnam.
The systems are for process monitoring, quality control and smartInternet of Things (IoT).
They were installed under instructions from Hyosung Group Chairman HyunJoon Cho, who has pushed innovation in production and management eversince he was inaugurated as chairman last year.
-Solvay introduces PPS grades, recycled nylon 6/6
Three new grades of Ryton-brand PPS are aimed at extrusion applications for the automotive market, Europe automotive area development manager Andreas Lutz said at the event. The new materials “can provide some properties that are highly required in automotive,” he added.
The flexibility of the new grades allow them to be used in pipes and tubing. Products made with the new grades can be bent to allow them to adjust to underhood designs, Lutz said.
-US will not implement antidumping duties on PET resins after ITC ruling
The US will not implement antidumping duties on polyethylene terephthalate (PET) imports from five countries, following a negative final determination from the International Trade Commission (ITC).
The US industry is not materially injured or threatened with material injury due to resin imports from Brazil, Indonesia, Korea, Pakistan and Taiwan, the ITC ruled in a unanimous vote on Thursday.
The ITC’s ruling follows a Department of Commerce final determination in September that PET resin imports from the countries were sold in the US at less than fair value rates.
-S Korea September exports of most petrochemicals slump year on year
South Korea’s export volumes of most petrochemicals in September posted double-digit declines, industry data showed.
Its exports of ethylene fell by 27.8% year on year to 70,299 tonnes, while those of propylene declined by 27.0% year on year to 128,298 tonnes, according to data from the Korea International Trade Association (KITA).
September shipments of paraxylene (PX) fell by 27% year on year to 577,543 tonnes, while those of purified terephthalate acid (PTA) were down by 24.8% at 144,116 tonnes.
-Asia benzene/toluene price spread narrows to 2-year low amid benzene glut
The price spread between benzene and its feedstock toluene in Asia narrowed to more than a two-year low of $3.83/mt on Tuesday amid a benzene glut and firmer toluene prices due to tight inventory in East China after the National Day holidays early October, S&P Global Platts data showed.
Healthy benzene/toluene spreads are typically in the $80-$110/mt range, making it very unattractive currently to produce benzene via toluene disproportionation units.
-New method developed to 3D print lithium-ion batteries in nearly any shape
Lithium-ion batteries power everything from smartphones and tablets to e-cigarettes and electric cars. Until now, manufacturers have had to design their devices around standard battery sizes, and it limits the design options and capacities of consumer devices. But researchers, led by Christopher Reyes and Benjamin Wiley have developed a new method to 3D print lithium-ion batteries in virtually any shape. They report their results in ACS Applied Energy Materials.
Most lithium-ion batteries on the market are either rectangular or cylindrical. Theoretically, 3D printing technologies can print an entire device, including the battery and structural and electronic components, in almost any shape. However, the problem that has stood in the way of fully 3D printed lithium-ion batteries is that the the polymers used for 3D printing, such as poly(lactic acid) (PLA), are not ionic conductors. Researchers wanted to find a way to print complete lithium-ion batteries using low cost and widely available fused filament fabrication (FFF) 3D printers.
