1:14 min Barrier materials, Materials, Processing & Handling
NPE 2018

PolyOne barrier technologies enable sustainability and recyclability in packaging

PolyOne Corporation (NYSE: POL), a leader in advanced technologies for packaging, today announced that its barrier additives are increasing sustainability and design freedom while extending shelf life and lightweighting options for packaging manufacturers.
0:40 min Materials, Processing & Handling, PET materials
PET Material

PETG: New ECOZEN grades with enhanced transparency for glass-like applications

VELOX GmbH, one of Europe’s leading solution providers of raw material specialities ...
1:10 min Additives

Novel Slip Additive Incroslip SL Granted European Food Contact Appoval

Croda International Plc, who create, make and sell speciality chemicals for some of the biggest, most successful brands in the world, today announced that one of its latest innovations, Incroslip SL, has been granted approval for use as an additive in the manufacture of polyolefin ...
12:40 min ONE:18, Materials, Processing & Handling, PET materials, …

“Just 90 More Days – They Were Oh So Close“

The M&G and PET Reality Show...What Could Have Been. Essay by John C. Maddox, CEO of SBAcci
0:25 min Management, Colorants
Management

New CEO Holland Colours

Mr. Coenraad Vinke (54) has been nominated as the new CEO for Holland Colours, producer of color concentrates for the polymer industry. He will join the company on the 1st of May. He will succeed Rob Harmsen, who has been in charge since January 2012. Coen Vinke will be officially ...
1:27 min Materials, Processing & Handling, Additives, Bottle & Cap Decoration
Additives

Penn Color launches line of additives supporting sustainable packaging

For brand owners and packaging converters looking for sustainable packaging solutions, Penn Color, a leading global producer of color and additive masterbatches has launched a line of additives that improve the life cycle inventory (LCI) by allowing for higher levels of recycled PET ...
1:32 min Materials, Processing & Handling, Bottle & Cap Decoration

Unique metallic shine for 3D printing filaments

Exclusive cooperation between the companies Schlenk, Herz and Gabriel-ChemieAn intrinsic metallic shine can now also be achieved in the 3D printing process, now also available as a PETG filament
1:47 min Materials, Processing & Handling

Individual plastics coloring for highest standards

Masterbatches, pigment mixtures, liquid dyes and coloring pastes: for more than 65 years Finke has provided innovative coloring solutions and supported users from design stage to final product.
0:56 min Materials, Processing & Handling, Sheets & Films
A sheet line for 2mm-thick PET sheet

SML recently unveiled an innovative extrusion line for the production of PET sheet in a thickness range of up to 2mm

The importance of PET as a raw material for countless thermoforming applications is clearlyon the rise. Moreover, the market is not only demanding more environmentally acceptable rawmaterials, which should offer a high degree of recyclability (as PET does), but also thicker ...
1:47 min Materials, Processing & Handling

Individual plastics coloring for highest standards

Masterbatches, pigment mixtures, liquid dyes and coloring pastes: for more than 65 years Finke has provided innovative coloring solutions and supported users from design stage to final product.