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Category Archives: South America
Huge Bio Ethylene Glycol Production Facility Set For Brazil
The Coca-Cola Company is partnering with an Indian company to build the world’s largest plant to produce the main ingredient in PET bottles from sugar cane. Coca-Cola plans [..]
New World Car Could Expand Potential For Plastics
Two years ago, a Bloomberg Business Week writer asked if Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn was crazy for a rapid ramp-up of the electric Nisan Leaf. Ghosn was widely [..]
Röchling Fine Tunes Polypro Intake Manifold
It seemed like a revolution in auto design when BASF and DuPont engineers developed in the 1980s a cost-effective way to replace cast metals with molded nylon for [..]
Why A. Schulman Bears Watching
One of my favorite companies to visit at every K is A.Schulman (ASI). The specialty compounder never fails to show several interesting innovations, such as Schulatec Tinco, a [..]
Shale Gas Economics Endanger Fragile Bioplastics
Development of bioplastics in the United States may be affected by the shale gas boom under way. Many bioplastics, such as starch polymers, polylactic acid (PLA) or polyhydroxyalkanoates [..]
TOP TEN MOLDING TECHNOLOGIES AT K2010
Following are the most important molding innovations shown at K2010 in the opinon of the editorial director of The Molding Blog. NUMBER 1 Reinforced Laminate Sheet Primary Developers 1. [..]
P&G Joins Toyota as Sugar-Based PE User
One of the first announced customers for Braskem’s sugar-derived polyethylene will be Procter & Gamble, once itself an important player in bioplastics. The bio-PE will be used in selected [..]
PHAs Show Significant Potential
A bioplastic with significant potential for durable applications is the polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) family. PHB, for example, has high crystallinity and mechanical properties similar to polystyrene. P(3HB) has a [..]