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Chilean plastics recycler Comberplast uses the new 1500 model from the Lindner Micromat series to shred old fishing nets and ropes collected from Patagonian coasts.

Kunststoffverarbeitung allgemein

Kunststoff-Aufbereitung

Zerkleinerungsmaschinen

Kunststoff-Recycling

Kreislaufwirtschaft

Cleaning up Coasts at the Edge of the World

With the microcellular technology, in which a foam structure is created in the polymer by environmentally friendly gases such as CO2 and N2, it is possible to reduce the packaging weight.

Kunststoff Werkstoffe

Less Plastic for More Sustainable Packaging

Biodegradable plastics are special polymers designed to biodegrade after use. But conventional granulation equipment cannot handle biodegradable production rejects adequately. The new Bio-Gran technology by CMG Granulators was designed to accomplish this objective.

Recycling

Recycling Made Possible with Bio-Gran

Recyclates usually show altered properties compared to virgin plastics due to initial processing and influences during the product’s life. This often leads to problems during processing. Especially in melt-expanding processes such as injection stretch blow molding, blow molding, film blow molding or thermoforming a fast incoming goods inspection method for recyclates is important. The Institut für Kunststofftechnik (IKT) at the University of Stuttgart, Germany, has developed a new test method for this purpose.

Incoming Goods Inspection of Recyclates Ensures Reject Minimization

Messtechnik

Kunststoff-Rezyklat

Qualitätssicherung Kunststoff

Recyclates on the Test Bench

When processing post-consumer PET bottle flakes for reuse in bottles, the purity requirement for the material combined with the high degree of contamination of the bottle flakes make high demands on melt filtration.

Filtration Systems for Recycling Applications

Schmelzefilter

Plant Retrofit for Bottle to Bottle Recycling

For a long time, chemical recycling was considered an unfinished addition to established material processes. In the meantime, however, some technologies are making the leap into large-scale industrial use: an overview of the various processes and providers.

Overview of the Various Processes and Suppliers

Polypropylen

Polyurethan

Kunststoff

What Is Happening in Chemical Recycling?

The development of a functioning and efficient recycling economy is strongly dependent on the quality of the recycled plastics. New plant and process technology is promoting this development.

Sortierer

KU-Verarbeitungsmaschinen allgemein

Advances in Plastics Recycling Processes Towards the Creation of a Circular Economy

Climate change and the transport revolution are demanding smart fiber-reinforced composite solutions. In sectors such as the marine industry, infrastructure, and rail vehicle construction, many different fire protection concepts are competing. The composites industry is paying increased attention to recycling.

Fiber-Reinforced Composites Drive Innovation in the Transport and Construction Sectors

Composite-Halbzeuge

Glasfasern / -matten

Kohlenstofffasern / -matten

Sekundärfasern

Fasern

Faserverarbeitung

Faserverbundwerkstoffe

Composites Are Trendsetters in Lightweight Design

Bio-based plastics can lock away vast quantities of CO2 in durable, recyclable applications and make a real contribution to climate protection. All that is needed for this is the right product design and a functioning circular economy. By focusing more on this approach, the plastics sector has the chance to evolve into a key industry of a green economy.

How Bio-Based Polymers Can Help Sequester CO2 for the Long Term

Kunststoffe, biobasiert

Biokunststoffe

Kunststoffe, bioabbaubar

Kunststofffasern

Into the Future with Biopolymers

Organo sheets have become established in several industrial sectors for the series production of highly stressed lightweight components. The utilization of waste material is a promising recycling approach.

Feeding Mechanically Recycled Fiber-Reinforced Thermoplastics Back to Production

Mahlgut

Organobleche (gewebeverstärkte Thermoplast-Halbzeuge)

Mahlen

Organo Sheet Recycling

In this interview with Kunststoffe, Alfred Stern, CEO of Borealis, explains why he considers fixed recycling quotas to be necessary and why voluntary commitments do not work.

Alfred Stern, CEO of Borealis, Talks about the Circular Economy

Schröder, Susanne

Streifinger, Florian

“Unfortunately, the Only Globally Accepted Ideology Is Money”

With Newcycling, multi-polymer and multi-layer plastic packaging, that previously could not be recycled, can now be separated and processed into homogeneous regrind using ZSK twin screw extruders.

APK Relies on Newcycling Processes

Polyethylen

Polyamide

Extruder

Extrusionsanlagen für KU-Verarbeitung

How to Make Plastic Compounds out of Packaging Waste

Composite materials are often the key to lightweight design for many applications. However, these hybrid materials face a major challenge where recycling is concerned.

A Research Project Highlights the Recycling Potential of Lightweight Composites

Anlagen zur Composite-Herstellung

Spritzprägen

Bruchmechanische Prüfung

Verbundwerkstoffe / Werkstoffverbunde

Harzsysteme für Composite-Herstellung

UD-Tapes

Presswerkzeuge, Kunststoff

Pressen von Kunststoffen

Zero-Waste Concept for Carbon SMC

The non fossil fuel-based portfolio offers same high quality and performance for applications in all industries.

Gehäuse aus Kunststoff

Polystyrol

Standardkunststoffe

Kunststoff-Regenerate

Borealis Launches Portfolio of Circular Polyolefins

The availability of PET bottle flake outside the beverage sector is expected to decline continuously in the coming years. Tray-to-tray recycling can close this gap and succeeds particularly easily with a new extruder.

Polyester

Blasfolienextrusion

Flachfolien- und Plattenextrusion

Polyethylenterephthalat

Folien

Unique PET Tray-to-Tray Recycling in a Single Extrusion Step

Twin-screw extruders enable even contaminated post-consumer polystyrene to be depolymerized continuously and efficiently. This opens up a promising recycling route in terms of industrial implementation via renewed polymer synthesis to produce plastic granules with a quality approaching that of virgin material.

A Robust Continuous Process for the Chemical Recycling of Polystyrene

Extrusionsanlagen

Turning Old into New

The Danish company Plastix recycles old fishing nets and ropes. The granules produced are used by JSP International, among others, to manufacture expanded polypropylene (EPP).

Expanded Polypropylene from Maritime Plastic Waste

Schaumstoffe und Vorprodukte

Schaumstoffe

Polypropylen-Compound

From Fishing Net to Particle Foam

The central issue in all polyurethane applications is the conversion from the past linear economy into a circular economy, and the use of sustainable raw materials in manufacturing. To do so, manufacturers are taking measures such as using bio-based raw materials, chemical recycling, and CO2 as a synthesis component. Digitalization, electromobility, autonomous driving and the construction industry are also driving PU development.

Polyurethane (PU)

Bauwesen

Bauchemie

Baustoffe

Automotive

Polyurethan-Schaumstoffe (PUR)

Baubetrieb / Bauwirtschaft

Windkraft

Sustainable Growth

Lightweight construction, functionality and design are characteristic of material development in all areas of application for PC compounds, composites and films. The range of materials has enormous opportunities when it comes to the mobility of the future, lightweight structural construction with continuous fiber-reinforced composites, 5G technology and medical technology.

Polycarbonate (PC)

Technische Kunststoffe

Medizintechnik

Polycarbonat

Medizinprodukte

Present in a Multitude of Trends

Because of its good temperature resistance, impact resistance and aesthetics appearance, acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene is often used in household goods and in the automotive industry. The development of a circular economy also shows successes.

Acrylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene (ABS)

Elektronik

ABS / ASA-Kunststoffe

Plastics processors have a wide range of colors at their disposal to color their products. Choosing the right color can ultimately be the key to success. But colors are just as subject to trends as materials and designs. Kunststoffe asked manufacturers of pigments, masterbatches, and colorants which colors would be particularly popular in the coming year.

Trend Report on the Coloration of Plastics

Pigmente

Pigmente, bunt

Masterbatches

Farbstoffe und Pigmente

Farbkonzentrate (Batches)

Farbstoffe

Effektpigmente

Additive

Farben, flüssig

What Will Be the Color of 2021?

Plastic waste in the sea has been shaping the negative image of the industry for several years. Various initiatives and mergers of companies have therefore launched projects to tackle this Ocean-bound Plastics (OBP). Components made of OBP could become a symbol for a sustainable use of plastics.

Flame Retardant for Compounds Based on Recycled Ocean-Bound Plastics

Polybutylenterephthalat

From the Sea to Electronics