Marina Arz has been appointed as the new Managing Director of IVK Europe, the European Association of Plastic Films and Sheets. She took up her new position on April 1st 2021.
In this guest blog Ian Jamie, Director Staeger Clear Packaging Limited, discusses the Prevented Ocean Plastic programme and demonstrates that by recycling we motivate and incentivise the cleaning up of our shores and oceans.
Nigel Flowers, UK MD of Sumitomo (SHI) Demag examines whether 3DP will ever cross over into mainstream manufacturing and cautions against getting overly caught up in the hype and believing that this technique will be the demise of injection moulding
Based in the Falkirk office, Alicia is the second apprentice Viridis has taken on from Forth Valley College, with Cameron Graham joining the growing team in 2019.
Willemijn Peeters, CEO of Searious Business, has written an article on her 5 year journey from single person start-up to thriving business, working with big brands towards circular plastic use.
With this year’s deadline for submission of entries fast approaching, one of the DIP judges, Dr Robin Kent, the managing director of Tangram Technology, provides us with some pearls of wisdom on what he looks for in a good entry.
Olivia Alexander, who came third in the Design Innovation in Plastics competition in 2018, has found a great job in the design industry and believes that her success made her application stand out when she applied for jobs.
A-MVB Security Seals, or Antimicrobial Viricide Material Infused Security Seals, are tamper-evident seals infused with a proprietary blend of additives that include an ionic-silver-based formula.
As the market enters 2021 it is poised to rebound to 3.84 million tonnes for the year. Smithers’ latest expert study The Future of Thermoplastic Elastomers To 2026 shows global demand will not return to pre-pandemic levels before 2024.
In this guest blog, Professor Edward Kosior, founder of sustainability experts, Nextek, reminds us that a genuine circular economy relies on simplifying our packaging and therefore our recycling streams, not adding to them with new complex categories
