Press Releases

Nexeo Plastics, a leading global thermoplastics resin distributor, is pleased to announce the launch of a significant upgrade to its MyNexeo e-commerce site, which is aimed at simplifying and positively transforming the buying experience for customers. The revamped MyNexeo site enables customers to research thousands of products, check the price and availability of materials, track orders, shop online deals, chat with a customer service representative, and much more. &ldqu

WWP Beauty, a world-class full-service supplier to the global beauty industry, has announced it is collaborating with Oceanworks® to help customers incorporate recycled ocean plastics in their products. Recycled ocean and ocean-bound plastics are those recovered from the ocean, waterways, and ocean-bound collection zones within 50 km of a coastline. With at least 8 million tons of plastic entering the world’s oceans every year, WWP Beauty is committed to doing its part through the c

Allergan Aesthetics, an AbbVie company, and a global leader in medical aesthetics treatments, today launched 'The Future of Aesthetics' global trends report via a high-profile virtual event for media and industry. Commissioned by Allergan Aesthetics and independently developed by specialist trend forecasting agency Wunderman Thompson Intelligence, the report aims to help the industry understand the developments driving today's aesthetics market, and to highlight the key trends tha

Valhalla Boatworks is the most recent addition to the list of boat manufacturers currently recycling plastic protective covers through the Yamaha Rightwaters plastics recycling program. To date, the program, which launched in August 2021, is responsible for returning 17,911 pounds of Polyethylene and Polypropylene sheet plastics back into base materials, reducing the amount of plastics in U.S. waterways. Created, owned and operated by the Viking Yacht Company, Valhalla Boatworks off

Today, PureCycle Technologies, Inc. celebrated its second annual day of service, Pure Planet Day, in Florida and Ohio. Florida volunteers helped build a greenhouse for Millennia Gardens Elementary, an award-winning Title I school located in Orlando, while the Ohio crew collected solid and plastic waste scattered on the roads of Ironton in partnership with the Lawrence-Scioto Solid Waste Management District. Tamsin Ettefagh, chief sustainability officer, PureCycle said, "Pure Pl

The REMADE Institute, a 148-member public-private partnership established by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) with an initial investment of $140 million, today announced a new training bootcamp to accelerate the nation's transition to a Circular Economy. The live, two-day, online bootcamp in Advanced Fibers Recycling - part of the Institute's REMADE Academy - will take place next week. The training, which focuses on paper recycling, encompasses six cour

Golden Grail Technology www.GoldenGrailBeverages.com is a fast-growing company with a strategic mission to innovate, build and streamline the growth of its beverage portfolio through fiscally responsible investing announces acquiring KOZ Water https://kozwater.com/. KOZ Water is a premium purified and pH balanced water packaged in completely plastic-free 12oz and 16oz cans. KOZ Water has had much success on Amazon and on the West Coast. As bottled water exploded in popularity, it ha

Pyrolysis technology developed by Vow ASA (‘Vow’) subsidiary ETIA is part of a Horizon Europe programme, aimed at qualifying plastic waste as a circular carbon feedstock for industry. The project, which is now officially confirmed and launched, is headed by Repsol, a leading and global multi-energy provider headquartered in Spain. The project involves thirteen partners from seven countries and is planned for a five-year duration (2022-2027). Its total budget is EUR 33.3

Spectrum Plastics Group, a global solutions provider for development through scaled manufacturing of critical polymer-based components and devices for medical and other demanding markets, has just completed a major renovation and cleanroom expansion at its Minneapolis, MN facility. With our continued growth in implantable products and critical to function medical components, it was important that we invest in additional state-of-the-art cleanroom capabilities to support current and

O2COOL® LLC announces a rebranding to O2C Brands® LLC. The new name reflects the corporate strategy of being a synergistic operating company of multiple consumer brands. “O2C Brands is a better reflection of who we are and where we are headed as a business. We are much more than simply O2COOL, our heritage brand. The new name and corporate structure allow us to layer additional brands and product lines into our business,” said Eric Lockwood, CEO of O2C Brands.

SPRIN-D announced their selection of C-Cause, a project partnership led by The Alfred Wegener Institute, Carbonwave, GEOMAR and Seafields, as one of five projects chosen for their ‘Carbon-to-Value' challenge. SPRIN-D (Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation) is funded by the German Federal Government and tasked with financially supporting break-through ideas. The team is supported by BASF to help provide bio-based feedstocks for use in chemical production processes. This

Gerdau Graphene, the nanotechnology company pioneering advanced graphene-enhanced materials for industrial applications, announced that it has created next-generation graphene-enhanced plastics at a Brazilian government-funded advanced materials center in São Paulo. The new graphene-enhanced polymeric resin masterbatches formulas for polyethylene (PP) and polypropylene (PE) were created in partnership with Brazil's EMBRAPII SENAI/SP Advanced Materials Unit, and are being piloted in