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May 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?

Coronavirus Antibody Test kits, Carbon-Black Alternative Improves Recyclability of Plastic Packaging, 100% Recyclable PET Vies to Replace Composite Cans and more. Find out what journals and industry experts have been discussing in the last four weeks.

Latest Industry Articles

Netstal Machines Enable Lights Out Production of Coronavirus Antibody Tests
Plastics Technology

As the global response to the Covid-19 outbreak transitions from the initial rush to create personal protective equipment and components for life-saving systems like ventilators, a new similarly urgent emphasis is being applied to the creation of test kits.
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100% Recyclable PET Vies to Replace Composite Cans
Plastics Technology

Ring Container Technologies, Oakland, Tenn., a blow molder of HDPE and PET packaging, announced the first customer for its new SmartCAN, a PET can designed to replace the common composite can with a much more easily recyclable alternative at comparable cost. John B. Sanfilippo & Son, Inc. (JBSS), Elgin, Ill., whose brands include Fisher Nuts and Orchard Valley Harvest, has chosen SmartCAN for its dry snacks.
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Carbon-Black Alternative Improves Recyclability of Plastic Packaging
PlasticsToday

With recyclability of plastic products being a key consideration for brand owners, plastics colored with carbon black can make recycling difficult. Black plastics can go undetected by automated waste-sorting machines, and even traces of carbon black can hinder the near infrared (NIR) sorting of polymer scrap because of the pigment’s absorbing properties.
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Fluorescent technique brings aging polymers to light
Phys.org

Modern society relies on polymers, such as polypropylene or polyethylene plastic, for a wide range of applications, from food containers to automobile parts to medical devices. However, like people, polymers age, and when they do, the materials become prone to cracking or breaking. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Central Science have developed a method to visualize variations in polymers that arise with age.
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Designing flexible and stretchable single crystal electronic systems
Sciencecodex

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in collaboration with a Purdue team have discovered that certain crystals are more flexible and stretchable compared to current materials used for electronic applications. These new materials could therefore be used for making sensors and in robotics.
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Widespread Use of Bioplastics Held Back by Lagging Innovation, Claims Report
PlasticsToday

Innovation in polymers for a range of applications has never been a problem for the plastics industry. However, a new report from Clarivate Analytics, “From the Plastics Present to a Sustainable Future,” states that lack of innovation in the bioplastics arena is preventing the widespread use of biodegradable and compostable materials in packaging applications. To prove that point, Clarivate and its partners studied the number of patents filed for bioplastic materials and who filed them.
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An Open Letter to ‘Plastiphobes’ about the Material You Love to Hate
PlasticsToday

First things first: No plastic is toxic in itself, chemically or biologically, in the quantitative way that we define toxicity. Plastics are all mixtures with additives, much as cookies or pasta are mixtures of flour with other ingredients. Some additives can be dangerous, but this can be true of any other material, even cookies.
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Expanding 'Circularity' through Advanced Recycling Technologies
Plastics Technology

Sustainability … What once was a niche business philosophy is now the driving force for businesses growth and development across all sectors. This could not be truer for the plastics industry, which is facing unprecedented scrutiny for mounting plastic pollution problems around the globe. For this reason, recycling and achieving circularity for materials is at the core of the plastics industry’s evolving sustainable business model.
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Tough-to-Recycle Metallized Polyethylene Liners Find Second Life in Decking
PlasticsToday

The insulated packaging for shipping that keeps products cool just became more sustainably cool, too, thanks to a recycling partnership between PAC Worldwide and Trex Company. “When our engineering team came up with a recyclable metal solution for cold chain, we immediately started thinking about how to bring it to market and educate the consumer,” said Jenifer Nelson, PAC Associate Director of Cold Chain Products. “The NexTrex program is an ideal vehicle because of the scale.
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'The head-tail of tadpoles': The dynamics of polymers with a very unique shape
Phys.org

They are in the shape of a tadpole and interact with each other by harpooning between head and tail, thus presenting interesting and unexpected physical properties. Tadpoles are the large molecules at the centre of new research just published in the journal ACS Macro Letters, and the result of an international collaboration between SISSA and the Universities of Vienna, Warwick and Edinburgh.
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Low-density Cellulose Fiber Biocomposite Delivers Rigidity, Good Haptics
PlasticsToday

A biocomposite cellulose fiber derived from forests has been selected as the feedstock for development of lightweight biocomposite materials, for the Life Biobcompo project. Symbio fiber was developed by South African pulp and paper company Sappi. Lightweight biocomposite materials to replace traditional materials in automotive components.
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Study suggests polymer composite could serve as lighter, non-toxic radiation shielding
Sciencecodex

A new study from researchers at North Carolina State University suggests that a material consisting of a polymer compound embedded with bismuth trioxide particles holds tremendous potential for replacing conventional radiation shielding materials, such as lead.
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Technique to make functional materials based on polymers of metal clusters
Phys.org

Researchers at the universities of Jyvaskyla (Finland) and Xiamen (China) have discovered a novel way to make functional macroscopic crystalline materials out of nanometer-size 34-atom silver-gold intermetallic clusters. The cluster material has a highly anisotropic electrical conductivity, being a semiconductor in one direction and an electrical insulator in other directions.
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Technology Extending Lifecycle of Reusable PET Bottles Up for Prestigious German Award
PlasticsToday

What does it take to earn a spot in the winner’s circle of the circular plastics economy? According to IKV — the Institute for Plastics Processing at RWTH Aachen University in Aachen, Germany — a key attribute is that the product should retain its value as long as possible throughout its lifecycle. Reusable PET bottles are a good example: After use, they can be washed with caustic soda solution and refilled.
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Untwisting plastics for charging Internet-of-Things devices
Phys.org

Untwisting chains of atoms within a plastic polymer improves its ability to conduct electricity, according to a report by researchers, led by Nagoya University applied physicist Hisaaki Tanaka, in the journal Science Advances. The insight could help accelerate the development of wearable power sources for a vast number of Internet-of-things devices.
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Materials: Implant-Grade PEEK Filament for Medical Applications in 3D Printing
Plastics Technology

Evonik’s implant-grade PEEK filament for medical applications in 3D printing. Evonik has launched a 3D-printable PEEK filament as an implant-grade material for medical applications. Developing and manufacturing custom-made plastic implants can now be created using additive manufacturing processes that meet the requirements of ASTM F2026 (the standard specification for PEEK polymers for surgical implant applications).
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