September 2023

Phys.org: Polymers News

A team of scientists from Thailand and Malaysia, led by principal investigator, Associate Professor Taweechai Amornsakchai from Mahidol University, has successfully developed a low-cost and green method to make films prepared from pineapple stem starch (PSS) for food packaging, such as fruits and vegetable.

InterPlas Insights

Duytan Plastic Recycling Co. Ltd. is the first plastics recycler in Vietnam to producerecycled PET for beverage bottle production.

Tire Technology International

Toyo Tire Malaysia is installing a large-scale megawatt solar power generation system on the facility’s roof in Perak, Malaysia to significantly reduce the tire maker’s CO2 emissions. The solar array from Solarvest is likely to cover 96,000m2. The first half of construction has already been completed, ahead of the system becoming fully operational in December 2023.

Phys.org: Polymers News

A team of scientists from Thailand and Malaysia, led by principal investigator, Associate Professor Taweechai Amornsakchai from Mahidol University, has successfully developed a low-cost and green method to make films prepared from pineapple stem starch (PSS) for food packaging, such as fruits and vegetable.

Tire Technology International

The Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber (GPSNR) has revealed that Sri Trang Agro-Industry (STA) has become the group’s latest member within the Producers, Processors and Traders category. Established in 1987, STA – a fully integrated natural rubber company – has become part of the GPSNR to work toward the sustainable and equitable production of natural rubber at scale. The firm has rubber plantations covering approximately 7,000ha in 19 provinces in Thailand.

BusinessWorld

Coca-Cola Philippines continues to make progress on its ambitious sustainable packaging program, World Without Waste, with significant milestones.

Asian Correspondent

US investing in Vietnam’s chip sector as chip war with China stays hot. A shortage of engineers in Vietnam is an increasingly pressing problem in the growth of the country’s semiconductor industry. Vietnam is currently the third largest chip supplier to the US, behind Malaysia and Taiwan.

Daily Tribune

David Katz is on a life-long mission: Save the planet, save the people. Talking to him about a week ago during his trip to the Philippines, the founder and chief executive officer of Plastic Bank, a for-profit social enterprise with origins in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Katz comes off as a modern-day hero—no, more like a messiah.

Channel NewsAsia

Singapore’s plastic recycling rate is 6 per cent. Does it need boosting? A Talking Point investigation into what really happens to the items you recycle raises questions such as whether a commingled collection system works.

NST Online Latest News

Ovy Sabrina fights plastic waste in Indonesia by spreading noodle packets, coffee sachets, straws and other trash around the sprawling archipelago — entombed in eco-friendly bricks.

VnExpress International

Vietnam exported 757,600 tons of rubber for over US$1 billion to China in the first seven months of this year, accounting for 99.8% of its total rubber exports. Vietnam is China’s second largest rubber supplier after Thailand. Its shipments to China were up 12% in volume but down 10% in value year-on-year. The price in July was $1,291 per ton, down 17.9%. The Ministry of Industry and Trade’s import-export department forecast rubber exports to China to keep rising in the next few months due to a steady increase in demand.

The Malay Mail Online

The demand-supply situation in the rubber glove industry will only start to head towards equilibrium in 2025 when there is virtually no more new capacity coming onstream while the global demand for gloves continues to rise by 15 per cent per annum underpinned by rising hygiene awareness, Kenanga Research said.

NST Online Latest News

It was found that the percentage of rubber used in the producer countries is low — at less than 20 per cent. Much of the raw rubber produced is exported instead of being used domestically to produce finished rubber products. Yet, the same rubber-producing countries import large quantities of finished rubber products.