Plastic petrochemicals Textile 11-09-2018 - Arhive
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Dornbirn (Austria), 12-14 September 2018
Innovation in the fibre world: focus of talks at GFC
For over 15 years, RadiciGroup has been a constant presence at the Global Fiber Congress, the international meeting on innovation in fibres that takes place in Dornbirn, Austria.
About 700 specialists from 30 countries are taking part in the 57th edition of the event, during which over 100 lectures will take stock of the situation in the evolving fibre world, with particular emphasis on the topics of the circular economy and sustainability. Participants will also have the opportunity to explore special areas of application more in depth, for instance, the automotive sector.
Iranian companies Dehdasht Petrochemical Industries and Nargan Company signed an agreement on the construction of a polyethylene production plant in the city of Dehdasht in the province of Kochgiluye-Boyerahmad as a contractor, Iran.ru reported
-Danone, Nestlé Waters and Origin Materials add PepsiCo to partnership developing 100% bio-based bottles. Danone Nestlé Waters PepsiCo biobased bottles Plastic petrochemicals Textile
“After producing samples of 80% bio-based PET at pilot scale in 2017, the Alliance has made further progress toward its goal of bringing its breakthrough technology to full commercial scale…”
The NaturALL Bottle Alliance the research consortium formed in 2017 by Danone, Nestlé Waters and bio-based materials development company Origin Materials to accelerate the development of innovative packaging solutions made with 100% sustainable and renewable resources has today welcomed PepsiCo, Inc. They join the Alliance to advance the shared goal of creating beverage containers with a significantly reduced carbon footprint.
-Inside the global war on plastic pollution
It is, in many ways, something out of the blue that everyone could see coming: an all-out battle against plastics, or at least plastic waste. It’s a fight that’s been brewing for years — decades, even. Indeed, its beginnings parallel those of the modern environmental movement. Plastic petrochemicals Textile
This year has seen the eruption of disparate skirmishes into a full-fledged war to end plastic pollution, primarily the waste ending up in waterways and, eventually, oceans. The warriors include local and international activist groups, local and national governments and some of the world’s biggest brands and their supply-chain partners.
-RPC Shares Surge Most on Record on Talks With Apollo, Bain
RPC Group Plc, one of Europe’s biggest packaging makers with a market value of $3.6 billion, rose the most on record after the U.K. firm confirmed it’s in talks to sell itself to private equity firms Apollo Global Management LLC or Bain Capital.
The discussions are preliminary and may not result in an offer for the company, RPC said in a statement Monday in response to a Bloomberg News report that the company was considering strategic options. The U.K. company is holding talks with advisers following interest from potential buyers including buyout firms, Bloomberg reported Saturday, citing people familiar with the matter.
-Q&A with PepsiCo’s Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa President Silviu Popovici
Popovici talks about the food and beverage company’s new goal to boost the recycled plastic used in its bottles across the EU, and efforts to cut sugar, salt and saturated fats.
The war on plastics has gone mainstream, driving a slew of new initiatives just this year to tax, recycle and ban disposable packaging around the world.
-SIG PRESENTS SMART FACTORY SOLUTION
Today’s food and beverage production demands a digital filling line solution that can deliver a highly accurate monitoring system for information management that may be remote but is always using real time data in order to optimise operations and improve productivity. SIG’s answer to this is combiLink – a single and flexible information management solution for filling line operation.
Food and beverage production is becoming more challenging, with filling plants facing higher demands, greater competition and ever shorter production cycles. All too often, manufacturers are faced with multiple reporting systems, outdated data, manual data collection and a lack of filling line insights.
New research from valuation firm Brand Finance has estimated that the spread of plain packaging to the beverage industry would result in close to $300bn in brand value losses, with The Coca-Cola Company and PepsiCo among the companies with most value at risk. The report warns that the true economic toll will likely be much higher.
Global designers unite to draw attention to, and create debate around, the issues of health warnings and marketing restrictions on packaging, and whether there are more effective solutions to change consumer behaviour. The first in a series of global Endangered Species hackathons will be launched in London on 3rd October with a live event, and will run for a month online.
Waste oil is added to the “raw materials” already used to produce Bio-on bioplastic: beet molasses and sugar cane, fruit and potato wastes, carbohydrates in general and crude glycerol.
A new discovery that transforms a waste element, which today has high disposal costs and a huge environmental impact, into a “raw material” for the production of bioplastics.
For the first time the carbon source that feeds the Bio-on bioplastic production process is of a lipid nature.
The discovery of Bio-on researchers allows to tap into the huge quantities of waste frying oil that are produced in particular in North America and Asia.
BOLOGNA (ITALY) – Bio-on, listed on the AIM segment of the Italian Stock Market – Borsa Italiana and operating in the sector of bioplastic of high quality, presents a new big discovery: it is possible to use waste cooking oils for the production of Minerv PHAs, the revolutionary biopolymer of Bio-on, organic and 100% biodegradable.
-Novozymes opens new laboratory for textile mills in India10
Novozymes has opened a new laboratory to help textile mills in South-East Asia region. The new laboratory facility in Bangalore, India will support implementation of current and future enzyme solutions in textile mills and laundries in the South-East Asia region. The company is a leading provider of enzyme and microbial technologies, based in Denmark.
The South Asia region is the world’s busiest textile producing region. But textile production also comes with a cost in terms of use of chemicals. Novozymes will help textile producers to implement enzymatic solutions in their production.
-Erdogan Accuses U.S. Of Supplying Oil To Syrian Rebels
Turkey’s President Recep Erdogan has lashed out at the United States, accusing Washington of supplying crude oil to a rebel group calling itself the People’s Protection Units, or YPG, which Turkey classifies as related to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party PKK, which Ankara has designated a terrorist group.
Turkish news outlet Ahval quoted Erdogan as telling local media that, “They are currently suppyling terrorist organizations, such as the YPG, in [Syria’s] Deir ez-Zor with oil. Terrorist organizations receive 300 million dollars income from crude oil.”
-Oil pulls back on concerns U.S. inventories are building
NEW YORK – Oil prices were mixed on Monday, pulling back from an early rally after data suggested U.S. crude inventories might build, weighing on the market.
FILE PHOTO: Oil tanker is seen at sunset anchored off the Fos-Lavera oil hub near Marseille, France, October 5, 2017. REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier/File Photo
Traders said weekly data from Bloomberg suggested U.S. oil inventories are rising, contradicting an earlier report from Energy Information provider Genscape, which forecast declining inventories.
-Will the Fall in Oil Prices Continue This Week?
Between August 31 and September 7, US crude oil October futures fell 2.9% and closed at $67.75 per barrel on September 7. In September so far, US crude oil active futures have fallen 2.9% compared to their rise of 1.5% in August.
