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Constantia Teich Celebrates 110 Years 2,000 guests celebrated the 110th anniversary of Constantia Teich on Saturday, October 1, 2022, in Weinburg, Pielachtal. At the open house, the company looked back on its history and gave visitors a…

Solvay Launches Solvalite Surfacing Film for Automotive Body Panels at CAMX 2022 Fast cure and impeccable flatness for large Class A painted surfaces,compatible with advanced prepregs for high-volume applications Solvay has announced the…

SML’s Presents Its PowerCast XL Stretch Film Line With a Patented, Brand-New Triple Turret Winder on K 2022 SML comes with a world debut in stretch film manufacturing to K2022: A patented triple turret winder for the PowerCast XL stretch…

Archroma Launches Appretan NTR Barrier Solutions for Food Packaging Based on a Renewable Natural Ingredient Component Archroma, a global leader in specialty chemicals towards sustainable solutions, today announced that its ground-breaking…

Borealis and Value Chain Partners Develop More Sustainable Flexible Packaging Formats Containing 50% Post-Consumer Recyclate Application development with partners Plastotecnica and ACMI results in fully recyclable multilayer collation…

The New Benchmark for Digital Productivity in Plastics At K 2022 in Dusseldorf (Hall 14, booth B19), Coperion will present C-Beyond, the next level of its digital platform for machine and plant management. C-Beyond bundles all its digital…

A Revolutionary Die Lip Adjustment System Set to Be Introduced by Nordson at K 2022 The new, patent pending EDI Prodigi system takes extrusion and coating processes to another level by fully automating the lip gap adjustment – making it…

Ascend Focuses on Reducing Product Carbon Footprint Ascend Performance Materials announced today two efforts to reduce the carbon footprint of its products. The company has made its global compounding operations carbon neutral, making it…

Tracing and Recycling Plastics The cross-company cooperative project R-Cycle was officially launched. The objective is to ensure the recyclability of plastic packaging through seamless documentation of all recycling-relevant packaging…

Comexi and Reifenhäuser Produce Fully Recyclable All-PE Pouches Reifenhäuser, the experts for plastics extrusion, and Comexi, leading provider of packaging machines, are starting a pilot project for the high-quality recycling of flexible…

Polifilm Extrusion Starts Pilot Project For the Wholesale Trade Polifilm Extrusion starts an R-Cycle pilot project for the wholesale trade. The aim is to demonstrate how R Cycle works using the example of stretch film in a real application…

Consortium Members Present Pilot Projects at Second Face-to-Face Meeting On October 6 all the members of the R-Cycle Consortium met for their second strategic face-to-face meeting. Arburg, Kautex Maschinenbau, Reifenhäuser, the Institute…