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Textiles Recycling: The Sorting Challenge To this day, only a tiny fraction of discarded textiles is recycled. While the clothing industry has doubled production in the last 15 years, the time garments are worn has fallen by more than 30%.…

Hasco Award for Innovative Products In a competition held by the trade journal Modern Plastics India, HASCO India, which is based in Bangalore, was able to convince the jury with its innovative new products in two categories. Tool and…

HASCO Multicoupling System – Extension of Product Range The innovative HASCO multicoupling system enables the central connection of several cooling circuits in one single step, and offers numerous advantages in process optimisation.…

HASCO Streamrunner Multicolour – Product of the Year 2023 HASCO was delighted to receive a special award at the awards ceremony for the Product of the Year 2023. The German journal KUNSTSTOFF MAGAZIN called for suggestions to be…

LANXESS and TotalEnergies to cooperate on sustainable styrene Specialty chemicals company LANXESS and French energy group TotalEnergies have entered into a cooperation on the supply of biocircular styrene. Unlike conventional styrene, the…

From the Sea into the Tunnel: KraussMaffei Customer Oldroyd Uses 100% Sea Plastics for its Products What do a tunnel and hiking boot have in common? Both have a membrane that prevents the ingress of rain. In the case of the tunnel, the…

Back to the Cycle: #tide Turns Ocean Plastic into High-Quality Recyclates Interview with Marc Krebs, Co-Founder & CCO, Tide Ocean SA Plastic is a resource without which our life today would not be possible - and thanks to recycling,…

The Future of Plastics: JKU Linz Trains the Plastics Engineers of Tomorrow Interview with Professor Georg Steinbichler, Head of the Institute for Polymer Injection Molding and Process Automation (IPIM), Johannes Kepler University Linz…

Bioplastics for Medicine: Sustainability and Quality in Harmony Interview with Julian Lotz, Managing Director (CEO), BIOVOX GmbH The healthcare field produces lots of medical plastic waste. The founders of Biovox know this from…

ALTANA Achieves Sales of More Than 3 Billion Euros for the First Time in 2022 Sales increase by 13 percent to 3,021 million euros EBITDA margin at 15 percent due to inflation Continued high investment in innovation and…