BP&R Editor Giulia Daniele speaks with Lignin Industries about the recent partnership with British polymer compounder and distributor Hellyar Plastics and how this aims to scale Renol, their patented, biobased thermoplastic, to the wider industry.
BP&R sits down with Alberto Piovesan, Global Segment Director – Plastics at TOMRA, to discuss the company’s latest developments in AI, from the flake sorting technology to the neural networks.
Despite the rise in other mass production techniques, including injection moulding, 3D printing and LSR moulding, compression moulding continues to dominate in the manufacturing of durable, quality parts.
B&M Longworth and Scott Bader have recently collaborated to explore how the pressolysis feedstock can be used in composite materials, taking the first steps towards improving the circularity of composite resins.
Following the announcement of the Automotive Plastics Circularity pilot, BP&R contributor Rhiannon Temporal had the opportunity to get the inside scoop on the pilot from Charlie Tan, Chief Executive Officer of the Global Impact Coalition.
Patrick Loock, European sales director at Exel Composites, discusses the expanding e-bus market, the growing use of composite materials in all-electric buses.
The company is looking to produce sustainable, biobased adhesives that remove fossil fuel-based components and can then be used by the consumer products industry.
AIMPLAS is participating in the new Europe-funded greco project, which aims to show the life cycle and techno-economic feasibility of greener and safer bioplastics value chains for the food packaging industry.
