1:20 min Materials, Processing & Handling, Additives
Alternative coloring technology.

Chroma Color Corporation introduces NIR black color concentrate solutions

Chroma Color now offers a new black plastic recyclability solution. A carbon ...
0:31 min Materials, Processing & Handling, Additives
Additives for Opaque PET

Omya introduces OmyaPET, a new and cost-effective opacifier for white opaque PET packaging

Omya International AG is pleased to announce the launch of OmyaPET, a new product ...
1:35 min Materials, Processing & Handling, Additives
Alternative rPET application

Covestro introduces 3D printing material made from recycled PET

Recycled PET made from post-consumer plastic waste Developed by the recently ...
0:49 min Materials, Processing & Handling, Additives
Additives

New ColorMatrix™ Amosorb™ 4020R from Avient improves oxygen scavenging at 100 percent rPET content

Avient announced the launch of ColorMatrix™ Amosorb™ 4020R, a non-nylon-containing ...
1:20 min Materials, Processing & Handling, Additives
Additives

Ampacet extends ScratchShield™ line; Additives enhance PET abrasion & scratch resistance

Ampacet, a global masterbatch leader, has added two products to the ScratchShield™ ...
1:15 min Materials, Processing & Handling, Additives
Additives

‘Future-Proof’ pharma packaging: Avient launches new regulatory-compliant MEVOPUR™ amber masterbatches

Avient Corporation, a premier provider of specialized and sustainable material ...
2:30 min Global themes, Sustainability & Circular Economy, Materials, Processing & Handling, …
rPET inlets

PACCOR to present new generation of DuoSmart® solutions

PACCOR is continuously searching for new materials, working to improve upon current ...
0:47 min Materials, Processing & Handling, Additives
Additives

New ColorMatrix™ Optica™ toners from Avient Correct Color, enhance performance in rPET

As food and beverage brands increasingly seek to support a circular economy by using ...
3:10 min Materials, Processing & Handling, PET materials
Advanced packaging materials

Origin Materials and Packaging Matters to partner for advanced packaging materials, including PEF

Packaging Matters and Origin Materials will partner to develop advanced packaging materials, including polyethylene furanoate, “PEF,” a next-generation polymer. The project will leverage Origin Materials’ expertise with FDCA, a chemical from which PEF is made. Packaging Matters ...
1:31 min Materials, Processing & Handling, PET materials
Polyester Production

Avantium successfully produces polyesters with its plantMEG™ from the Ray Technology™ demonstration plant

Avantium has completed the application validation for its plantbased glycols plantMEG™ and plantMPG™ produced in the Ray Technology™ demonstration plant in Delfzijl. Key applications include polymerisation to PEF and PET polyesters and functional fluids used for de-icing and heat ...