10 Dec 2020
Avient ColorForward™ Experts Predict Pandemic Likely to Influence Color Preferences, Even in 2022
Avient Corporation, a premier provider of specialized and sustainable material solutions and services, today announced that Avient ColorWorks™ has launched ColorForward™ 2022. This 16th edition of the annual color forecasting guide for the plastics industry marks its debut within Avient, which was formed this year from legacy businesses PolyOne and Clariant Masterbatch.
9 Dec 2020
SABIC’s certified circular PP copolymer selected for Unilever’s Knorr® bouillon powder containers produced by Greiner Packaging
SABIC, a global leader in the chemicals industry, today announced that the company has been collaborating with Unilever and Greiner Packaging in the development of an innovative new Knorr® bouillon container using SABIC® PP FLOWPACT FPC45 certified circular impact polypropylene (PP) from its TRUCIRCLE™ portfolio.
9 Dec 2020
Clariant’s MegaMax® 800 catalyst set production record at Baofeng Energy’s methanol plant
Clariant’s methanol synthesis catalyst, MegaMax 800, has demonstrated its excellent performance at the methanol synthesis plant in the
8 Dec 2020
Bold, beautiful and perfect for blocking: Clariant’s “New Freedom” Decorative Color Trends for 2021
As 2020 has seen us all spending more time in our homes, there has been a huge growth of interest in decorating and re-imagining how we want our living, and now working, environments to look and feel. To help us make the most of our spaces, Clariant’s latest ‘New Freedom’ Decorative Color Trends 2021, is full of creative colors to capture our imaginations.
7 Dec 2020
Taking AIM on single-use plastics: metal 3D printed tooling solution designed to change the world… one paper cup at a time
As pulp and paper manufacturers bid to replace single-use plastic packaging to help clean up our planet, the team at AIM Sweden AB (AIM), the commercial spin-off from the Mid Sweden University, has developed new methods for modelling, as well as 3D printing an entirely new tooling concept that is currently being introduced in the manufacture of molded paper food and drink containers.
7 Dec 2020
Affix Labs, Waste2Wear and Logonet join forces and donate Eco-Friendly, Insect Repellent ‘Uniforms of the Future’ to Jane Goodall Institute on its 60th Anniversary
Environmentally friendly and insect repellent – these are the two key features of a high-tech new uniform developed in a partnership between pioneering textile innovators Affix Labs, with its Repeltec technology, Waste2Wear and Logonet. The uniform has been designed to commemorate 60 years of ground-breaking research by the legendary primatologist Jane Goodall and the hard work carried out by the scientists and rangers at the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) in Gombe, Tanzania.
7 Dec 2020
Total, Intraplás and Yoplait successfully demonstrated the feasibility of incorporating recycled polystyrene from chemical recycling into yogurt pots
Total, Intraplás and Yoplait announced today that they have successfully run a pilot test aiming at using certified chemically recycled polystyrene in yogurt pots. This is the first step of a collaborative initiative aiming at testing the use of chemically recycled polystyrene in yogurt pots, supporting the development of sustainable PS recycling in France.
7 Dec 2020
SONGWON announces global price increases due to higher freight rates
SONGWON Industrial Co., Ltd. announced today that prices for all its products will be raised by 2-5%, depending on business line and region.
