Sirmax to build U.S. plastics recycling plant
An Italian compounding company is developing an $18 million plastics recycling facility in Indiana, where the company will process and...
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How a manufacturer increased its line of recycled products
Garbage and recycling container maker Busch Systems recently announced it has developed additional products made from 100% recycled plastic. An...
Recycling biopharma plastics into lumber products
Biopharmaceutical production scrap consists of different polymers, multi-layer films and some hazardous materials. A recycling program is demonstrating that this...
Recycling efforts receive millions in state funding
Five plastics recycling projects will take in a total of $11.7 million in California state grants. The awarded companies are...
Virgin plastics producer acquires recycled compounder
Multinational oil and gas company MOL Group will acquire a German recycled plastics compounder. The Hungarian energy giant has agreed...
Exploring the interplay of virgin and recycled plastic markets
In coming years, recycled PET and polyolefins will likely have to continue competing with cheap virgin plastics. But scrap markets...
Post-industrial specialist expands into U.S.
Eyeing material from manufacturers in the Southeastern United States, Ontario-based Kal-Polymers has purchased a recycling and compounding operation in Georgia....
Two companies receive FDA food-contact letters
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave a New England plastics reclaimer the thumbs up to recycle a polyolefin blend...
Virgin plastics producer acquires European processor
Global energy, chemicals and plastics company Total has acquired a French PP reclaimer. Total on Feb. 18 announced it acquired...
Researchers unveil polyolefins-to-chemicals process
A team at Purdue University has developed a unique method for converting scrap polyolefins into oil, fuels or monomers for...
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