Industry Trends

June 2023

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

What has been happening?

World’s most incredible plastic packaging, New hemp-based biomaterial to help with global microplastic pollution crisis, Packaging sustainability by design, and more. Find out what plastic & rubber journals and industry experts have been discussing in the last four weeks.

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World’s Most Incredible Plastic Packaging
PlasticsToday.com

Winning plastic packaging in the WorldStar 2023 awards range from a blister film made from biomass to copper-embedded films to a plastic pump sprayer engineered for circularity.
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New hemp-based biomaterial to help with global microplastic pollution crisis
Phys.org: Polymers News

Plastic is cheap and light, and conceivably recyclable, which makes it an easy choice for packaging when it comes to food and cosmetics. But it’s also potentially toxic and biologically harmful, making it a non-starter for many environmentally responsible and socially conscious companies in Canada and around the world.
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Packaging Sustainability by Design: 7 Steps to Circular Success
PlasticsToday.com

A circular packaging economy requires improvements in design, recovery infrastructure, and regulatory changes, according to a new PMMI/AMERIPEN packaging trends study.
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Toyo Tire announces successful synthesis of butadiene rubber using carbon dioxide as a raw material
Tire Technology International

In a joint research project conducted with the University of Toyama in Japan, Toyo Tire has successfully synthesized butadiene rubber – the main raw material found within tires. The two organizations managed to do so by developing a catalyst for the conversion of carbon dioxide to butadiene with high yields.
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Chemical Recycling Offers Additional Source of Food-Safe Packaging
PlasticsToday.com

Veteran packaging reporter Erik Kruisselbrink presents news from interpack 2023 of new products and projects centered around plastic packaging and chemical recycling.
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Kickstart: The complicated issue of film packaging, recycling
Plastics News

Flexible packaging can reduce the carbon footprint for items, and is cheaper to transport. But the lack of consistent recycling programs has supporters calling for fees to finance recycling infrastructure.
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Carbon Fiber Reinforced Nylon 12 for Injection Molding
Plastics Technology

A new carbon fiber reinforced nylon 12 composite for injection molding is newly available from CRP Technology. Said to be the first of a family of sustainable materials for industrial production, Windform XT 2.0 IMG is 100% recycled from the company’s exhausted Windform XT2.0 industrial 3D printing material for laser sintering.
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Goodyear implements real-time tire intelligence technology at Le Mans 24 Hours
Tire Technology International

Racing tires featuring the first real-time intelligence capability will be introduced on the NASCAR Next Gen Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Garage 56 entry at the Le Mans 24 Hours (June 10-11), enabling the team to read and record pressure and temperature.
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New research from Industrial Physics reveals packaging innovation warning
Medical Plastics News Magazine

New research from Industrial Physics, a packaging, product, and material test and inspection provider, has highlighted the pressures facing packaging professionals and the risks that cannot be overlooked in the race to innovate.
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Masterbatch: The solution to maintaining colour uniformity in the manufacture of plastic parts in the PVC industry
InterPlas Insights

Delta Tecnic, a producer of Masterbatch solutions explores how colour is applied and maintained in PVC products .
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SIPA develops injection moulded blood collection tubes
InterPlas Insights

SIPA has spent several years developing new injection mould tooling solutions specifically for medical applications, encompassing wide cell culture containers to deep and narrow blood collection tubes, BCTs. A special cold-half core-centring…
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Bridgestone Commences Pyrolysis Test of Used Tire Recycling
Newswires

Bridgestone Corporation today announced that it has commenced the production of tire derived oil and recycled carbon black through pyrolysis of used tires using test units installed at Bridgestone Innovation Park in Kodaira City, Tokyo. This initiative is aimed at promoting the social implementation of chemical recycling technologies that enable precise pyrolysis of used tires.
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Bridgestone, Goodyear Developing Advanced Tire That Could Track Road Conditions in Real-Time
ThomastNet.com

Tire manufacturers Bridgestone and Goodyear are working on technology that would allow tires on autonomous vehicles to monitor road conditions in real-time. The data, captured by sensors, could help vehicles determine how soon to begin braking or how quickly to take a turn. The manufacturers, however, must first identify a power source for the sensors and learn how to combine the tires’ data with other vehicle data-collection sources.
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ADB signs off on $44.2m loan for Indonesian plastic recycling plant
The Jakarta Post

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has signed a deal for a US$44.2 million blue loan for PT ALBA Tridi Plastics Recycling Indonesia, the Indonesian subsidiary of ALBA Group Asia, to establish a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) recycling facility in Central Java.
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Indonesia plans to ban single-use plastic by end of 2029
Channel NewsAsia

Indonesia will start imposing a ban on single-use plastic products by the end of 2029, the country’s Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar said on Monday (Jun 5). By that time, manufacturers are also mandated to reduce their use of plastic packaging by 30 per cent.
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ASEAN must jointly tackle plastic pollution
BusinessWorld

The cross-border nature of plastic pollution in Southeast Asia will require a regional approach to mitigate its impacts, the World Bank (WB) said. “Southeast Asia is a hotspot for plastic pollution, largely due to rapid urbanization, a growing middle class, and underdeveloped waste management infrastructure,” the World Bank said in a blog posted on June 4.
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Rubber deal set to boost Thai firms in global market
Bangkokpost.com

The Finance Ministry, in collaboration with the Thai Chamber of Commerce and the Rubber Authority of Thailand, has signed a letter of intent for the Capital Flow in Rubber Industrial Estate project to boost the international competitiveness of entrepreneurs in the rubber supply chain.
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Plastic-eating fungi found in Chinese coastal salt marshes
The Malay Mail Online

An international team of scientists identified plastic-eating bacteria and fungi in Chinese coastal salt marshes, presenting new possibilities for global waste management, according to a study published Thursday. “A total of 184 fungal and 55 bacterial strains capable of breaking down” various plastics were found in the Jiangsu province of eastern China, the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew said in a statement.
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Grab targets zero packaging waste in nature by 2040
Digital News Asia

Grab is committing to achieve zero packaging waste in nature by 2040 to support cleaner oceans and lands in Southeast Asia. This follows from its efforts, since 2019, to encourage consumers to opt out of receiving single-use cutlery for their food delivery orders. The new target is being implemented over two phases.
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Vietnam targets reduction in single-use plastics and plastic waste
VietNamNet

The Vietnamese government has focused on dealing with plastic waste pollution and ocean plastic waste in recent years by renewing legal documents and policies on environmental protection.
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Rubber prices fluctuate in domestic market tracking int’l rubber prices
Global New Light Of Myanmar

The prices of rubber are moving up and down following international rubber prices. Trade is going regularly at present, rubber traders highlighted. The international rubber price climbed from US$1,650 to $1,700 per tonne, causing the rubber price to increase to K1,410 per pound from K1,350 in the domestic market. Myanmar can export only raw materials. China accounts for approximately 70 per cent of Myanmar’s overall rubber exports and the remaining is sent to Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, the Republic of Korea, India and Japan.
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Rubber market likely to trade lower on muted demand
NST Online

The Kuala Lumpur rubber market is expected to trade lower on muted demand for the commodity with demand and prices likely to be stagnant.
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