Modern Plastics Weekly

• Fortum Backs Vianode in Creating Closed-Loop System for EV Batteries May 15, 2025
  Fortum Backs Vianode in Creating Closed-Loop System for EV Batteries Vianode, an advanced battery materials company, and Fortum Battery Recycling, a specialist in recycling valuable metals from electric vehicle (EV) batteries, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on developing a sustainable EV battery recycling value chain. Under the agreement, the two companies will work […]
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• Kistler Academy Updates Training Suite with More Specialized Content May 15, 2025
  Kistler Academy Updates Training Suite with More Specialized Content Using your expertise to get the most out of sensor technology: The Kistler Academy, an ISO-certified training institution, organizes courses for users from the injection molding industry for plastics. Kistler experts provide the knowledge required for optimum sensor use, efficient process design, monitoring and control, as […]
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• Polykemi Group Entrusts Third Generation with Business Growth May 15, 2025
  Polykemi Group Entrusts Third Generation with Business Growth The family-owned business organization Polykemi Group will experience a generational transition at the start of 2025–2026. The third generation will be ready to assume senior leadership positions. The founder Hugo Jönsson’s sons, Ola Hugoson, the current CEO, and Lars Hugosson, the deputy CEO, will continue to be […]
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• Ricoh Accelerates Digital Fabric Printing at FESPA Global 2025 May 14, 2025
  Ricoh Accelerates Digital Fabric Printing at FESPA Global 2025 Ricoh will be demonstrating next generation textile on demand production versatility at FESPA Global Print Expo 2025, Europe’s premier exhibition for screen, digital, wide format, and textile printing, Messe Berlin, from May 6 to 9. Meeting the high-volume digital production demands of industrial markets will be […]
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• RENOLIT Scales Up in India with Cutting-Edge Plant May 14, 2025
  RENOLIT Scales Up in India with Cutting-Edge Plant Plastics processor RENOLIT is expanding in India and building a new plant in Pune. The symbolic groundbreaking ceremony took place on April 15, 2025. From April 2026, the family-owned company plans to produce geomembranes for civil engineering projects in the Asia-Pacific market. “India is now the most populous country […]
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• Global Bioplastics Market to Benefit from Thyssenkrupp-Praj PLA Collaboration May 14, 2025
  Global Bioplastics Market to Benefit from Thyssenkrupp-Praj PLA Collaboration ThyssenKrupp Uhde’s polymer specialists Uhde Inventa-Fischer (UIF), a subsidiary of the global leader in chemical engineering and construction, and Praj Industries Limited (PIL), a global leader in industrial biotechnology solutions, announced a strategic partnership to jointly offer an end-to-end integrated technology for the production of Polylactic […]
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• COM4PHA Powers Sustainable Product Development with Bioplastics May 13, 2025
  COM4PHA Powers Sustainable Product Development with Bioplastics Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) are biocompatible and biodegradable plastics in soil and marine environments synthesized by a wide variety of microorganisms, which share very similar characteristics with plastics of petrochemical origin. The most recent studies focus on the search for cheaper alternative substrates, such as agro-industrial waste or industrial by-products, […]
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• Industry Leadership Solidified as Mike Casavant Takes Over PPI Board May 13, 2025
  Industry Leadership Solidified as Mike Casavant Takes Over PPI Board The Plastics Pipe Institute, (PPI), today announced Mike Casavant has become the new Chair of the Hydrostatic Stress Board (HSB), a technical-based group of volunteer industry experts. Established almost 70 years ago, the HSB creates, authors and offers the policies and guidelines for minimum strength […]
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• K 2025 Highlights the Role of Plastics in Achieving Environmental and Digital Goals May 13, 2025
  K 2025 Highlights the Role of Plastics in Achieving Environmental and Digital Goals Special show Plastics Shape the Future to offer international discourse, innovations and impulses for a sustainable and competitive plastics industry on seven theme days At K 2025 from 8 to 15 October in Düsseldorf the official Special, Plastics shape the Future, will […]
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• SABIC Drives Thermoplastic Advancements for Power Tech at PCIM 2025 May 12, 2025
  SABIC Drives Thermoplastic Advancements for Power Tech at PCIM 2025 At PCIM Europe 2025, SABIC is featuring voltage derating test results for ELCRES HTV150 film used in Nichicon capacitors, and a new ULTEM resin well suited for magnet wire insulation. The company is displaying a range of high-performance materials for diverse electrical applications, from EV converters and […]
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