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Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "North America Plastic Bottles and Containers Market - Growth, Trends, Forecasts (2020 - 2025)" - https://www.reportlinker.com/p05986847/?utm_source=GNW Owing to the rising stringent regulations against plastic recyclability, plastic bottle and container manufacturers, coupled with end users, are expected to use more recyclable materials. - Packaging is the most critical factor that plays an essential role in the widespr

CARBIOS, a company pioneering new enzymatic solutions to reinvent the lifecycle of plastic and textile polymers, today announced it has successfully produced the first bottles containing 100% recycled Purified Terephthalic Acid (rPTA) from textile waste that contains a high PET content. This result confirms the capacity of Carbios’ technology to recycle textile waste and opens up access to an additional waste stream of up to 42 million tons per year, worth over $ 40 billion. &

Tupperware Brands has announced a partnership with TerraCycle's circular reuse platform Loop, aimed at eliminating waste and greatly improving the delivery, design and features of products. This partnership is intended to launch in 2021, initially offering to consumers across the United States the ability to purchase products from leading consumer brands and retailers packaged in durable, reusable Tupperware® products. Aligned in the collective mission to reduce waste throug

Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Tokyo, President, Yasuhiko Saito) has now developed a new form of low-density silicone rubber that makes lighter rubber molded products. Shin-Etsu is the first in the industry to develop this type of molded silicone rubber using LIMS (Liquid Injection Molding System) materials. The demand for lighter rubber molded products is growing in many industries such as automobiles and transportation vehicles such as airplanes, as well as in other a

Kraton Corporation, a leading global sustainable producer of  specialty polymers and high-value biobased products derived from pine wood pulping co-products, announces a general price increase of up to 10% for Tall Oil Fatty Acids (TOFA). Subject to the terms of any applicable contracts, this price increase will take effect January 1, 2021. ABOUT KRATON Kraton Corporation  is a leading global producer of specialty polymers and high-value performance

Koch Modular Process Systems, LLC (Koch Modular) announced that on October 7th, it has been awarded by PureCycle Technologies, LLC (“PureCycle”) the construction of their Phase II commercial recycled polypropylene facility, located in Ironton, OH, and designed to produce over 105 million pounds of ultra-pure recycled polypropylene (UPRP) per year. Their recycling process, removes color, odor and other contaminants from recycled feedstock resulting in virgin-like polyprop

Global non-profit organisation, Alliance to End Plastic Waste (Alliance), and early-stage startup accelerator, Plug and Play, announced today an expansion of their End Plastic Waste Innovation Platform partnership – with three new hubs across Shanghai, São Paulo, and Johannesburg. The Alliance and Plug and Play first launched the platform in Silicon Valley, Paris, and Singapore hubs in October 2019. Since then, the program has attracted over 2,000 startups across 3 hubs

Braskem, the largest polyolefins producer in the Americas and leading producer of biopolymers in the world, announced the successful completion of a $10 million investment towards the expansion of the company's U.S. Innovation and Technology (I&T) Center located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The expansion project adds eight new research and development laboratories with state-of-the-art equipment for developing new proprietary technologies to support innovations in Catalysis, Recycling

Cabot Corporation , an industry leader in black masterbatch solutions, today announced the launch of PLASBLAK XP6801D black masterbatch, a unique styrene acrylonitrile (SAN)-based formulation that meets the needs of the styrenics market without the usual trade-off between color and mechanical properties. PLASBLAK XP6801D black masterbatch enables excellent color performance, mechanical properties and UV resistance at a lower masterbatch concentration. Using PLASBLAK XP6801D

Cabot Corporation announced the launch of its latest Engineered Elastomer Composites (E2C™) product, FX9390, part of the new E2C Foundation series of solutions that delivers multidimensional performance for a variety of tire types. FX9390 is formulated to deliver significant performance improvement balanced across cut/chip/chunk resistance, heat buildup and abrasion resistance in off-the-road mining tires. When combined with other E2C solutions, FX9390 provides mining customer

Based on Global Market Insights Inc., report, the global plastic compounding market was estimated at $133.6 billion in 2019 and is slated to surpass $169.7 billion by 2026, registering a CAGR of 5.5% from 2020 to 2026. The report provides a detailed analysis of the market estimations and size, top investment avenues, wavering industry trends, drivers & opportunities, key winning strategies, and competitive scenarios. Compounding enhances the properties of plastics and polymers.

LyondellBasell, the world’s largest licensor of polyolefin technologies, today announced that Hengyi Industries SDN BHD (Hengyi) will use the LyondellBasell Hostalen “Advanced Cascade Process” (Hostalen ACP) technology for a new facility.   The process technology will be used for a 450 KTA high density polyethylene (HDPE) facility to be built in Pulau Muara Besar, Brunei Darussalam.   “Products from the Hostalen ACP process are an excellen