An optical sorting technology and two approaches to PET recycling are among the items we detail in this month’s look at industry-related patents.
An optical sorting technology and two approaches to PET recycling are among the items we detail in this month’s look at industry-related patents.
Montreal-based Loop Industries is working to commercialize its heatless, pressureless PET depolymerization technology after raising millions of dollars from investors earlier this year.
A recyclable, recycled-content polyester material has been developed for automotive components, and a high-molecular-weight PLA could replace PP in packaging.
Two men are out of jail and awaiting a court date after they were arrested for possessing stolen plastics and selling the material to buyers in China.
A French chemical company has announced industrial-scale production of a recycled polyamide 6.6 resin made from airbag fabrics.
The average value of recovered material sent to foreign markets is back under 17 cents per pound. Volumes are up year-over-year, however.
HoPP repro and regrind prices fell last week on an oversupply of recyclable post-industrial and post-consumer PP scrap in many parts of the U.S.
A research project has boosted the quality of recycled PET when used in foam, potentially opening the door to new applications for the recovered plastic.
Construction has started on a facility to recycle vehicle airbag scrap into a high-quality polyamide 6.6, according to international chemical company Solvay.
Following the lead of Los Angeles, Chicago has become the second largest city in the country to pass a plastic bag ban ordinance.