Industry Trends

December 2020

See what has been happening in Asia’s plastic industries over the last weeks. What are experts and industry magazines talking about?

What has been happening?

Car production slow down, Solvent-Based Process, Recycling of multilayer plastic packaging materials and more. Find out what journals and industry experts have been discussing in the last four weeks.

Latest Industry Articles

Car production could slow down due to chip shortage
Paul Tan’s Automotive News

Covid-19 may have slowed down automotive production earlier this year, but the industry has been picking up in recent times as sales of new cars has swelled, fuelled by consumers looking to travel in private vehicles instead of taking public transport.
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Solvent-Based Process Shows Promise for Recycling Multilayer Plastics
Plastics Today

By using a series of solvent washes guided by thermodynamic calculations of polymer solubility, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers were able to recover polyethylene, ethylene vinyl alcohol, and polyethylene terephthalate from a multilayer plastic.
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Recycling of multilayer plastic packaging materials by solvent-targeted recovery and precipitation
Science Advances

Many plastic packaging materials manufactured today are composites made of distinct polymer layers (i.e., multilayer films). Billions of pounds of these multilayer films are produced annually, but manufacturing inefficiencies result in large, corresponding postindustrial waste streams.
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Struktol Achieves a Silver Sustainability Rating with EcoVadis

Plastics Technology

Struktol Company of Aamerica, LLC, Stow, Ohio, global manufacturer of specialty chemicals and additives for the plastics, rubber, wood-plastics composites, and general industries has achieved Silver Status from the EcoVadis Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) rating assessment.

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Thailand’s vehicle trade-in scheme put on hold, as government asks for project framework to be defined

Paul Tan’s Automotive News

Thailand’s plan to introduce a vehicle trade-in scheme won’t be happening anytime soon. There had been plans to announce the programme – which was first mooted in August by the industry ministry – before the end of the year, but the government said last week that more time and discussion is needed to flesh out the programme before it can be finalised.

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