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INDUSTRY NEWS
Avient Bouncing Back from Financial Impact of Covid-19
https://www.plasticsnews.com/news/avient-bouncing-back-financial-impact-covid-19
Avient Stock Up After Hours On Strong 3Q Update
https://news.yahoo.com/avient-stock-3-hours-strong-092010277.html
Avient Provides Third Quarter 2020 Performance Update
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/avient-provides-third-quarter-2020-performance-update-1029621169
Americhem Acquries Danish Compounds and Masterbatch Producer Controlled Polymers
https://www.plasteurope.com/news/AMERICHEM_t245896/
Borealis Producing Certified Renewable Polypropylene At Own Facilities In Belgium
https://modernplasticsweekly.com/borealis-producing-certified-renewable-polypropylene-at-own-facilities-in-belgium/
BASF Claims Recycling Breakthrough With Black Additive
https://www.recyclingtoday.com/article/basf-sicopal-black-additive-sorting-recycling-friendly/
Toyo Develops NIR Sortable Black Masterbatch
https://www.labelsandlabeling.com/news/new-products/toyo-develops-nir-sortable-black-masterbatch
TOCHU, Borealis and Borouge Announce Collaboration to Enable Uptake of Renewable Polypropylene in the Japanese Market
https://www.borealisgroup.com/news/itochu-borealis-and-borouge-announce-collaboration-to-enable-uptake-of-renewable-polypropylene-in-the-japanese-market
SABIC-Exxon Joint Venture Hires Ahead of 2022 Start Up of $10 Billion Plant (Breaking News)
https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2020/09/23/sabic-exxon-joint-venture-hires-ahead-of-startup.html
Incorporation of Recycled HDPE to Polyethylene Pipe Grade Resins to Increase Close-loop Recycling and Underpin the Circular Economy
http://cloud.excelplas.com/s/LGnuKebOLrg052A#pdfviewer
NEW REPORT – Phasing out Plastics in the Construction Sector
https://www.odi.org/sites/odi.org.uk/files/resource-documents/odi-et-cp-construction-report-sep20-proof04_final2.pdf
NEW PRODUCTS
Borealis Launches the Bornewables™ Portfolio of Circular, Premium Polyolefins
https://www.borealisgroup.com/news/borealis-launches-the-bornewables-portfolio-of-circular-premium-polyolefins
Borealis Launches New Lines with Recycled Resins in Packaging
https://www.plasticsnews.com/news/borealis-launches-new-lines-recycled-resins-packaging
UPCOMING WEBINARS
Webinar: RPET Bottle-to-Bottle, Tray-to-Tray – Closed Loop Recycling (29th October 2020)
Understanding of the current RPET market situation
https://packagingeurope.com/bottle-to-bottle-tray-to-tray-closed-loop/
Webinar on Migration Testing for Recycled Plastics (October 21, 2020)
https://www.foodpackagingforum.org/news/webinar-on-migration-testing-for-recycled-plastics
NEW RESEARCH
Interactions Between Sorbitol‐type Nucleator and Additives for Polypropylene
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/pen.25535
3D Printing of Carbon Black/Polypropylene Composites with Excellent Microwave Absorption Performance
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0266353820322697
Failure of Glass Fibre-Reinforced Polypropylene Metal Laminate Subjected to Close-Range Explosion
https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4360/12/9/2139
Many Medical Device Recalls Stem from Predictable Material Issues
https://ewi.org/many-medical-device-recalls-stem-from-predictable-material-issues/
RECYCLING
California Mandates 50% Recycled Content (RPET) in New Bottles
https://www.beveragedaily.com/Article/2020/09/28/California-mandates-50-recycled-content-rPET-in-plastic-bottles
The Journey to 100% RPET Bottles in the UK
https://www.beveragedaily.com/Article/2020/09/24/The-journey-to-100-recycled-plastic-bottles-rPET-in-the-UK
Coca-Cola in Western Europe Transitions to 100% Recycled Plastic (rPET) Bottles in Two More Markets
https://ethicalmarketingnews.com/coca-cola-in-western-europe-transitions-to-100-recycled-plastic-rpet-bottles-in-two-more-markets
Towards Distributed Recycling with Additive Manufacturing of PET Flake Feedstocks
https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/13/19/4273/pdf
Closures Made from Post-Consumer Recycled Plastics
https://www.sustainableplastics.com/news/closures-made-post-consumer-recycled-resin-enhance-packaging-sustainability
BASF Claims Recycling Breakthrough With Black Additive
https://www.recyclingtoday.com/article/basf-sicopal-black-additive-sorting-recycling-friendly/
ENVIRONMENT
Borealis Producing Certified Renewable Polypropylene At Own Facilities In Belgium
https://modernplasticsweekly.com/borealis-producing-certified-renewable-polypropylene-at-own-facilities-in-belgium/
Microplastics Accumulate to Thin Layers in the Stratified Baltic Sea
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0269749120363892
Mechanical Behaviour of a Green HDPE Composite from Biopolymers Reinforced with Sisal Fibres
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10924-020-01875-9
RUBBER ADDITIVES
First Graphene’s (ASX:FGR) PureGRAPH Significantly Improves Rubber Polymers
https://themarketherald.com.au/first-graphenes-asxfgr-puregraph-significantly-improves-rubber-polymers-2020-09-01/
Rubber Compounds Made of Reactivated EPDM for Fiber-Reinforced Elastomeric Isolators
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13726-020-00859-9
POLYMER TESTING
Rapid and Accurate Determination of Antioxidant and UV Stabilisers in Polymers (Full Additive Screen by ExcelPlas Labs)
https://www.excelplas.com/
Accelerated Weathering of Polymers and Determining The Resistance of Polymers to UV
https://www.uvtesting.com.au/
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EXCELPLAS offers the following polymer testing services:
- Identification of plastics by FTIR
- Determination of the glass transition temperature by DSC
- Determination of the melting temperature by DSC
- Detection of solvents by GC-MS
- Identification of pigments and fillers by XRD
- Determination of type and level of stabilizers by LC-MS
- Testing the hardening properties of thermosets by DSC
- Determination of crystallinity by DSC
- Determination of antioxidant and stabiliser levels by OIT
- Examination of fracture surfaces using the scanning electron microscope (SEM)
- Tensile tests
- Pressure tests
- Bending tests
- Charpy impact strength and notched impact strength
- Shore A and shore D hardness testing
https://www.excelplas.com/
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