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The increasing demand for high-quality recycled plastics is leading to broader adoption of double filtration systems in recycling facilities.

Kunststoff-Aufbereitung

Kunststoff-Verpackungsmaschine

Kunststoff-Recycling

Kreislaufwirtschaft

Benefits of Double Filtration

The therapeutic product trains the senses through play using light, colors and shapes. PLEXIGLAS® Softlight ensures soft, glare-free light and a matte surface.

LiteScout | designed with PLEXIGLAS (PMMA) from Röhm GmbH | therapeutic product✓soft✓ glare-free light✓ matte surface ➤Watch video now!

Spritzgießen

Technische Kunststoffe

Extrudieren (KU)

Compoundieren

LiteScout® supports visually impaired children with PLEXIGLAS® tokens

From AI-driven process control and servo-electric automation to advanced sorting for high-grade recyclates, this issue showcases how technology is transforming plastics production.

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Plastics Insights 4/2025 Is Out Now

The present work investigates the potential of selected amines to produce them in the form of carbamates and to use them for the production of epoxy resin foams.

Schaumstoffe

Harze, Epoxid

Thermische Mess- und Prüfverfahren

Carbamate-foamed epoxy resins – synthesis and properties

The melting process in single-screw extruders is crucial for process design, but its prediction remains difficult.  In research of suitable methods.

Extruder

Messgeräte für Partikel

Materialcharakterisierung

Prediction of the Melting Process of Plastics in Particle-laden Flows by Means of CFD-DEM

Continuous production of sustainable particle foams based on renewable materials

Partikelschäumen

Polylactid

Investigation of the foaming behaviour of polylactide and polylactide/poly(hydroxybutyrate-co-hydroxyvalerate) blends in particle foam extrusion

The aim of the present work is to develop the scientific understanding required for the development of flame retardant epoxy-carbamate-foams for the application in lightweight constructions.

Flammschutzmittel

Carbamate-foamed epoxy resins – Optimization of fire behaviour and mechanics through fillers

Establishment of suitable analytical methods for the characterization of individual particles and creation of new correlation references to welding behavior.

Polybutylenterephthalat

Schaumstoffe und Vorprodukte

Clarification of structure-property relationships during foaming and fusion of polybutylene terephthalate bead foams (E-PBT)

Analysis and model-based description of the bubble growth behavior as a function of the extensional viscosity function prevailing at the bubble edge.

Messgeräte für Kraft, Masse, Dehnung, Druck, Dichte, Viskosität, Drehmoment

Messgeräte für Viskosität

In-line characterization and prediction of the viscosity and the initial bubble growth behavior during foaming of blowing agent-loaded polymer melts

How can the effort required to test high-strength, highly rigid continuous fibre-reinforced structural components be reduced?

Impact-Tester

Non-destructive Testing of Fiber-reinforced Plastic Composites Using Sound Waves Emitted Into the Air by Local Defect Resonance

How hydrogen can be used as an energy source for aviation.

Harze

Modified epoxy resins for manufacturing of carbon fiber composite based cryogenic hydrogen vessels in the automated fiber placement

Thermoset polymers are not considered formable. Under certain conditions, however, they exhibit plastic behavior.

Zug-und Druckfestigkeitsprüfgeräte

Modelling the cure-dependent material behavior of thermoset matrices as a basis for material-adapted process and component design

A nozzle system optimised by CFD simulation makes immersive nozzle systems for the hot gas welding process suitable for series production and allows a reduction in heating time of up to 50 %.

Gas-, Autogenschweißen (WIG, MIG, MAG)

Prozesssimulation

Thermisches Fügeverfahren

Polyamide

Contribution to efficient hot gas welding of thermoplastics

The adhesion between LSR and thermoplastic is not only influenced by the applied polymers, but also by injection molding parameters, oven cure, surface treatment and storage conditions or environmental impacts.

Weichmacher

Mehrkomponenten-Spritzgießen

Silikonkautschuk

Structure-process-properties-relationships of injection molded thermoplastic-liquid silicone rubber-combinations

Blending of polymers has revealed a strong potential in tailoring plastic material properties for different applications.

Blend

Werkstoffprüfung, mechanisch

Properties of Micro- and Nanostructured PA66/PPE Polymer Blends

The present work aims to use accelerated weathering methods to develop a basic understanding of the formation of macro- to microplastics

Polyethylen

Polypropylen

From Macro- to Microplastics: Degradation Models and Extrapolation of Residence Times Under Abiotic Environmental Impacts

In this work, the fundamentals of process technology are established, aiming to produce a particle foam from polycarbonate for the first time.

Polycarbonat

Development of a continuous foaming process for novel expanded and expandable polycarbonate particle foams for structural applications

The aim of the dissertation is to develop a method for the numerical calculation of the concentration distributions.

Werkstofftechnische Prüfungen

Finite Methoden

A contribution to the characterisation and calculation of moisture distributions in polyamide 6

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In a market environment that faces economic uncertainty, the Erema Group maintains its position as a leading provider of plastics recycling solutions.

Headquarters of the Erema Group in Ansfelden, Austria: it is from here that solutions for plastics recycling are developed and marketed worldwide.

Recycling

Unternehmen

Erema Braves Challenges

With the opening of Syndigo 1 in Indiana, Nova Chemicals begins large-scale recycling of polyethylene film, turning post-consumer waste into food-grade resin and strengthening U.S. circular economy goals.

Nova Chemicals hosted a grand opening event with nearly 100 attendees. The ceremony marks the completion of 22 months of planning, construction and scale-up, and the facility’s readiness for mechanically recycling PE film and the production of high-quality recycled PE.

Kunststoff-Rezyklat

Nova Chemicals Launches PE Film Recycling Plant

Carbios secures its first multi-year contracts for enzymatically recycled PET with L’Oréal and L’Occitane en Provence—marking a step toward industrial-scale commercialization.

Carbios has signed two multi-year commercial contracts for biorecycled PET from its Longlaville plant, with L‘Oréal and L‘Occitane en Provence, and has moved forward with the execution of this future plant’s strategy.

Verpackungsmaterial

Polyethylenterephthalat

Carbios Signs PET Supply Deals with L’Oréal and L’Occitane

EPO patent analysis: Innovations for recycling plastic waste and combating the global flood of plastic are on the rise.

EPO patent analysis shows dynamic development in plastics recycling.

Europe in the Lead

Henkel and Synthomer are partnering to reduce carbon emissions in hot melt adhesives by integrating low-emission raw materials and applying validated carbon footprint methodologies.

Henkel and Synthomer enter into partnership to reduce CO<sub>2</sub> emissions in adhesives production.

Nachhaltigkeit

Klebstoffe

Partnership for Lower-Emission Adhesives

HolyGrail 2.0 has reached another milestone, demonstrating that its digital watermarks can accurately sort plastic waste on an industrial scale.

Luminous markers: at the heart of HolayGrail 2.0 are digital watermarks that can be hidden invisibly to the human eye in the color printing of packaging and function like a barcode.

Towards Market Adoption

The Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS), Washington, D.C. USA, announced the winners of its 2025 Plastic Sustainability Innovation Awards.

Verbände, Institutionen, Messen

Länderspecial USA

 Award Winners

The new E-Go R single-screw extruders are designed to improve the efficiency of polyolefin recycling processes.

Länderspecial Italien

Extrusionsanlagen

New E-Go R Extruders for Polyolefin Recycling

Thanks to enzymes, PLA should be able to degrade more quickly under natural environmental conditions in future – while retaining the same mechanical properties in use. Initial tests are promising.

Enzymes Accelerate PLA Degradation

News Circular Economy

Moldmaking in Portugal: Tools meet values. On a journey of discovery with the VDWF in eight companies.

Portugal has its charms beyond toolmaking as well. One example is the Dom Luís I Bridge in Porto, a two-level steel structure connecting the old town of Porto with Vila Nova de Gaia. It was designed  by a student of Gustave Eiffel.

Strategie und Organisation

Schröder, Susanne

Werkzeugbau

Toolmaking Meets Values:  Where Portugal Comes into Play

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