TechnoCompound and RE Plano are intensifying their collaboration on post-consumer recyclates (PCR) from the lightweight packaging fraction for automotive applications. Both companies have already made extensive developments and investments.
Dr Karl Hagspiel, Senior Circular Economy Expert at ALPLA, shares his long-term strategy for PET recycling and discusses the challenges and the key to achieving a circular economy.
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.
