The coronavirus has put a focus on the plastics used in the manufacture of gloves, masks and other types of personal protective equipment. KW Plastics will assist Troy University scientists who are studying the recycling of that material.
The coronavirus has put a focus on the plastics used in the manufacture of gloves, masks and other types of personal protective equipment. KW Plastics will assist Troy University scientists who are studying the recycling of that material.
Agilyx licenses its depolymerization technology to a PS producer, a European project explores optical sorting of PU foams, and a case study looks at KW Plastics’ granulators.
DAK Americas will spend $32 million on a project allowing it to produce food-grade 100% RPET pellets in North America for the first time.
A polypropylene planter producer has begun molding with marine plastics, after the company and its suppliers overcame melt flow and color consistency challenges.
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UL has certified that resins used by technology company HP contain scrap plastic that was at risk of entering the Caribbean Sea.
Herbold Meckesheim USA has released size-reduction equipment tailored for plastics recycling.
A handful of municipalities have reinstated curbside recycling programs that were suspended due to the coronavirus. Still, dozens of others that curtailed service remain shut down.
The coronavirus has disrupted end markets for KW Plastics, moving demand away from industrial applications and toward packaging for essential products.
Carpet manufacturers are halting their nationwide voluntary subsidy program for carpet recycling, which could push some struggling processors out of business.