New Home Compostable Printed Laminate for Food Packaging
(Jul 30, 2010)
The British packaging manufacturer Ultimate Packaging, the British specialty films specialist Innovia Films and the American inks, pigments and coating producer SunChemicals have joined forces in...
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Making Inroads On Ice With All-Plastic Ice Skates
(Jul 29, 2010)
Viking has introduced a lighter way of enjoying ice skating. Apart from the metal blade, various components of the latest ice skates are made of 60% glass-filled Akulon® Ultraflow™ K-FG12 BLK from...
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Eco-friendly cylinder head covers
(Jul 23, 2010)
A collaborative industrial project between the automotive part supplier Dana Holding Corporation and the compounder Wellman Engineering Resins has allowed to produce an innovative eco-friendly...
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Environmentally friendly tires made from biobased materials
(Jul 20, 2010)
The Japanese tire manufacturer Yokohama Tire Corporation has introduced an innovative range of orange oil infused passenger car tires that is commercialized under the trade name dB Super E-spec tires....
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New environmentally friendly lightweight packaging made fro rPET
(Jul 16, 2010)
The German packaging specialist Greiner Packaging has launched a new lightweight container that has components that can be easily separated for recycling. This new packaging that is already produced...
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Railroad bridge built from recycled plastic
(Jun 21, 2010)
Axion International Holdings, Inc. has announced that it has built the two first railroad bridges constructed from 100% recycled thermoplastic materials, at Fort Eustis, Virginia. These innovative...
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Now honeycombs minus adhesives!
(May 21, 2010)
Plasticell put on its thinking cap and came up with an innovative way to produce light-weight thermoplastic honeycombs, made of fiber-reinforced Victrex Aptiv film. For this, the company used the...
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Significant Weight Reduction for Minimal Cost Increase
(May 19, 2010)
With only 3% increase in component cost, Lotus Engineering has helped reduce the vehicle mass of Toyota Venza crossover utility vehicle (CUV) by 33%, and fuel consumption by 23%. To achieve this,...
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Bioplastics that last one-fourth of a chicken's life span
(May 18, 2010)
Despite being used in various applications, chicken feathers produced in poultries are still getting wasted in large quantities (nearly 2,000 metric tons of feathers are produced every year in the US...
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Decking made from recycled plastics
(Feb 22, 2010)
The UK-based company I-Plas uses mixed plastic waste that would otherwise be destined for landfill and converts it into sustainable, high performance, environmentally friendly street furniture,...
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A green reusable alternative to wooden chopsticks
(Jan 13, 2010)
Every day across Japan, millions of disposable single-use wooden chopsticks are thrown in the bins after meals in schools, office lunchrooms and other eating venues. It is the reason why one of the...
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Green waste containers
(Jan 12, 2010)
The American green product proponent NewLife and the American plastics converter Cascade Engineering have joined forces to design and commercialize a new range of waste containers of all shapes and...
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Bottles entirely made from recycled PET
(Dec 28, 2009)
As part of a 7-year industrial project, the Canadian company Naya Spring Water has designed has developed a bottle made from 100% recycled poly(ethylene terephthalate) (rPET). This bottle is designed...
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Innovative prepaid energy meter
(Dec 2, 2009)
On the occasion of the International plastics Design Competition (IPDC) during the latest NPE 2009 exhibition, people could vote online or in person at NPE to award the People’s Choice Award. The...
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A catamaran almost entirely made from recycled plastics only
(Oct 9, 2009)
An organization namely Adventure Ecology, created by the British banking heir David de Rothschild in 2005, is building a catamaran that will sail across the Pacific about 11,000 miles over three...
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