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INEOS STYROLUTION CELEBRATES 90 YEARS OF POLYSTYRENE

Julie Fernandes
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  • Polystyrene serves society for 90 years, making it one of the first polymers deployed at commercial scale

  • Polystyrene is made for recycling, making it best suited for a circular economy and low-carbon economy

INEOS Styrolution, the global leader in styrenics, celebrates 90 years of polystyrene, a material that has significantly contributed to societal well-being for over almost a century. Polystyrene became one of the first commercially available polymers enabling a wide range of products that enhance our daily lives. Polystyrene is made for recycling, making it the material of choice for the future.

The road to the production of polystyrene was paved in 1929 with the first patents on the production of styrene monomer from ethylbenzene and a year later for the continuous polymerisation of styrene monomer to polystyrene. The technology was perfected through 1931, when the first ready-to-use polystyrene was produced. Today, polystyrene and styrenic polymers in general are an indispensable part of our lives. Polystyrene helps insulate our homes resulting in less energy consumption. Polystyrene is a great choice for food packaging as it helps reduce the amount of food being wasted, keeping it fresh and safe. Being both lightweight and durable, high-performance Styrenics also help to reduce the weight of cars resulting in reduced energy use and enabling longer range.

Styrenic materials are used to make life-saving applications in the healthcare industry, including virus detection kits, respiratory devices, safety goggles and face shields to combat the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Polystyrene can be recycled via a wide range of technologies from mechanical recycling to more advanced recycling methods such as depolymerisation and pyrolysis. According to latest developments, mechanically recycled polystyrene even promises to enable food contact.

INEOS Styrolution is now focusing on advancing a circular and low-carbon economy by recycling styrenic materials including polystyrene and substituting fossil feedstock with either recycled or renewable sources in our production processes. Alexander Glück, President EMEA, says: “INEOS Styrolution’s ECO grades are the result of our strong efforts driving our circular and low-carbon agenda forward. Our ECO portfolio includes mechanically recycled solutions as well as materials made from recycled or renewable feedstock. Both are now available commercially and products based on advanced recycling technologies will come soon. These sustainable materials continue to offer the best performance to our customers and end-consumers, with no compromise on quality or safety.” Gregory Fordyce, President Americas, adds: “With the different recycling technology options we are actively pursuing, we are convinced that polystyrene will continue to be the material of choice for decades to come. Together with our partners, we are investing significantly into commercialising advanced recycling solutions.”

More information on INEOS Styrolution’s ECO range is available at styrolution-eco.com.

For 90 years of polystyrene overview,

see https://styrolution-eco.com/90-years-polystyrene/.

Continental Structural Plastics orders LFT-D line with 2,500-tonne press from DIEFFENBACHER

Julie Fernandes
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US-based Teijin Group subsidiary expands capacity in Sarepta, Louisiana

Continental Structural Plastics (CSP), one of the world’s largest manufacturers of composite components, is expanding its facility in Sarepta, Louisiana in the US, with the purchase of an LFT-D line that includes a DIEFFENBACHER press with a pressing force of 2,500 tonnes (25,000 kN). CSP will use its new LFT-D line, scheduled to begin operating in the first quarter of 2022, to produce tailgate covers for pickup trucks.
CSP has operated three DIEFFENBACHER LFT-D lines with identically constructed presses in Sarepta for 20 years. “Our DIEFFENBACHER lines from 2001 have done an excellent job for two decades. That’s why we’ve decided to order another LFT-D line with a 2,500-tonne hydraulic press from DIEFFENBACHER,” said Dale Armstrong, Advanced Process Engineer at CSP. “In addition, we always feel very well supported by the local DIEFFENBACHER staff here in North America,” he added.
A Teijin Group Company, CSP manufactures composite components for a variety of industries, including automotive, trucking, leisure and construction. CSP is headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan, and operates facilities in the United States, Mexico, France, Portugal, Czech Republic and China.

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Technology partner and e-mobility pioneer

Julie Fernandes
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Fast charging technology with the DC charging plug CCS

With its portfolio of products and solutions, the HARTING Technology Group is positioned as an electromobility technology partner and pioneer – and thereby driving the energy transition forward. The HARTING Automotive subsidiary is focusing on e-mobility solutions. The subsidiary supplies customised solutions and components for all relevant sales areas. Among other things, the subsidiary is developing and manufacturing charging infrastructure solutions for electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles. As part of the press highlight tour at HANNOVER MESSE, HARTING has now showcased an innovative charging connector.

In this context, the low-loss DC voltage featuring the latest HARTING high-current connectivity charges the battery of the e-vehicle in the shortest possible time. “Over the recent months, e-mobility has picked up tremendous momentum. There’s no denying: high-performance fast charging will further improve acceptance of e-vehicles among drivers,” as Marco Grinblats, Managing Director of HARTING Automotive stated. The breakthrough of e-mobility depends decisively on user-friendly charging infrastructure. “Fast charging technology with the DC charging plug CCS is a prerequisite for ensuring that in future vehicles will be supplied with sufficient power – not in a matter of hours, but in a few minutes,” as Marco Grinblats underlined. Power from wind turbines to charging stations HARTING is a technology partner covering the entire energy process chain – from the renewable energy generation of wind energy to decentralised energy storage and the DC infrastructure all the way through to e-mobility charging plugs. With this comprehensive scope, HARTING differentiates itself from its market competitors. HARTING is an enabler for reliable, clean and environmentally friendly e-mobility. The technology group is supplying charging solutions for Volkswagen’s modular e-drive system (MEB), as well as the Audi e-tron and the Porsche Taycan platforms, among others. Last summer, HARTING Automotive took the prestigious Volkswagen Group Award 2020 in the E-Mobility category. With this award, the Volkswagen Group acknowledged the exceptional achievements and high level of flexibility with which HARTING Automotive is contributing to the success of Volkswagen AG.As part of the HANNOVER MESSE format, the main areas of application for HARTING in the field of today’s charging infrastructure for electromobility were presented. One example of AC charging solutions is the Innogy Wall-Box, which can be used not only as a charging station in public areas, but also in the private sector as a Wall-Box. It underlines the trend towards modularity: with this customized OEM connectivity solution, HARTING ensures flexible and individual use by end users.In cooperation with Porsche, HARTING has created a DC charging solution that can transfer very high power to the vehicle’s energy storage system for a short time. A new innovative cooling technology ensures that all necessary parameters are maintained.HARTING Automotive has put in strong growth over the past three years. “E-mobility topics have shifted up three gears in a very short time. I am most pleased to see the continued strong demand for HARTING solutions in this area,” as Grinblats concludes. A keen eye on the mobility concepts of the futureHARTING has long been involved in the mobility concepts of the future. The Technology Group looks back on many years of successful cooperation with the innovative Swiss automobile manufacturer Rinspeed. The ground-breaking “metroSNAP” concept vehicle launched by Rinspeed AG is also – and once again -relying on innovative HARTING technology. HARTING is contributing a specially designed interface supplying the vehicle with Power, Data and Signals.

www.HARTING.com/IN

iF DESIGN AWARD 2021 distinguishing the European Distribution Center (EDC)

Julie Fernandes
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The award was bestowed on the “3deluxe” architecture firm / Almost 10,000 entries from 52 countries

The European Distribution Center (EDC), the new logistics hub of the HARTING Technology Group has been distinguished with the prestigious iF DESIGN AWARD 2021. The award went to the internationally active architecture firm “3deluxe” from Wiesbaden. The office designed a high-tech logistics centre with an adjacent administration building for HARTING.


The EDC was officially commissioned in the summer of 2019 with numerous guests from politics, business and administration attending, in addition to employees and their families. Featuring an automated small parts high-bay warehouse and a high-speed shuttle, one of the most innovative logistics centres in Europe has been created in Espelkamp in Eastern Westphalia – spreading out over an area of 18,000 square metres. Advanced, state-of-the-art logistics technology and ergonomic workplaces have been optimally combined here.
The European Distribution Center was awarded in the architecture discipline, in the Office / Industry category. Once a year, the IF DESIGN AWARD is bestowed by the world’s oldest independent design institution, the IF International Forum Design GmbH in Hanover. The EDC convinced the 98-member, independent, international jury of experts thanks to its modern, pleasantly open and light-flooded architecture. The number of applicants was huge: The jurors were tasked with awarding the coveted seal of approval from among almost 10,000 entries hailing from some 52 countries.
“The EDC underscores the company’s technological logistics expertise, as all of our innovative HARTING products and solutions are part and parcel of this lighthouse project,” as CEO Philip Harting stated. “I am proud of this acknowledgement. The iF DESIGN AWARD honours the work of the entire team,” emphasized Peter Seipp, managing director of “3deluxe”. In June 2020, “3deluxe” had already garnered the German Brand Award in Gold – also for the EDC assignment. The staircase in the reception area took the “Staircase of the Year 2019” award.

www.HARTING.com/IN

XSYS announces the launch of nyloflex FTM Digital flexo plate for printing with water-based inks

Julie Fernandes
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  • Suitable for printing on paper substrates to meet sustainability demands
  • Enables printers to switch from solvent to water-based inks
  • Offers superior ink laydown and reduced costs
The new nyloflex FTM Digital plate with inherent flat top dots has been developed specifically for flexographic printing with water-based inks on different grades of paper substrates. The trigger for the development of this new plate solution is the acceleration in the demand for more environmentally friendly packaging production. As the market moves towards more sustainable substrates in response to those demands, XSYS is introducing the nyloflex FTM Digital plate which enables printers to use water-based inks on coated and uncoated paper for aseptic food packaging and corrugated preprint liner.
 
“This latest addition to the nyloflex plate portfolio will have a broad appeal for printers serving different segments of the packaging production wishing to move to a more sustainable operation, but still retain the ability to produce the highest quality products,” said Simon Top, Product Manager at XSYS. “The nyloflex FTM Digital will help to fulfil the brand owners’ sustainability requirements by allowing printers to switch from printing on plastic film materials to printing on paper substrates with water-based inks.” The nyloflex FTM Digital is a medium hard plate with a smooth surface, bringing a good ink transfer and ink laydown out of the box and capable of reproducing sophisticated surface screenings in case this is required. With no need for additional equipment or auxiliaries, the plate can be exposed in existing systems with standard tube lights or LED UV-A light exposure, before solvent processing.
XSYS innovative inherent flat top dot technology ensures minimum dot wear and significantly less dot gain compared to round top dot plates, thereby also greatly improving press uptimes to reduce costs and start-up waste in the press room. Featuring advanced dot sharpening, the nyloflex FTM Digital presents fine highlights and a high solid ink density in print, increasing the shelf appeal of the final product. “The nyloflex FTM Digital can be considered as the flat top dot counterpart of our well known nyloflex ACT Digital plate,” explained Top. “The plate enables printers to easily tackle both coated and uncoated papers without the need to use two different plate types. In the past, a hard plate like the nyloflex ACE UP and medium hard plate like nyloflex ACT were often combined to achieve the optimum result. At one customer case, we were able to reduce this complexity for up to 60% of the print jobs by using the nyloflex FTM Digital.” An additional benefit is the better plate filling that could be achieved and thereby reducing the plate waste and total plate cost in the plate making process.
nyloflex  FTM Digital plates are commercially available in 1.14 mm (0.045 in) to 2.84 mm (0.112 in) thicknesses and in varying plate sizes. The nyloflex  FTM Digital plate material will be available for shipment as of May 31, 2021. The new nyloflex FTM Digital plate with inherent flat top dots has been developed specifically for flexographic printing with water-based inks on different grades of paper substrates. The trigger for the development of this new plate solution is the acceleration in the demand for more environmentally friendly packaging production. As the market moves towards more sustainable substrates in response to those demands, XSYS is introducing the nyloflex ® FTM Digital plate which enables printers to use water-based inks on coated and uncoated paper for aseptic food packaging and corrugated preprint liner.
“This latest addition to the nyloflex plate portfolio will have a broad appeal for printers serving different segments of the packaging production wishing to move to a more sustainable operation, but still retain the ability to produce the highest quality products,” said Simon Top, Product Manager at XSYS. “The nyloflex FTM Digital will help to fulfil the brand owners’ sustainability requirements by allowing printers to switch from printing on plastic film materials to printing on paper substrates with water-based inks.”
The nyloflex FTM Digital is a medium hard plate with a smooth surface, bringing a good ink transfer and ink laydown out of the box and capable of reproducing sophisticated surface screenings in case this is required. With no need for additional equipment or auxiliaries, the plate can be exposed in existing systems with standard tube lights or LED UV-A light exposure, before solvent processing. XSYS innovative inherent flat top dot technology ensures minimum dot wear and significantly less dot gain compared to round top dot plates, thereby also greatly improving press uptimes to reduce costs and start-up waste in the press room. Featuring advanced dot sharpening, the nyloflex FTM Digital presents fine highlights and a high solid ink density in print, increasing the shelf appeal of the final product. “The nyloflex FTM Digital can be considered as the flat top dot counterpart of our well known nyloflex ACT Digital plate,” explained Top. “The plate enables printers to easily tackle both coated and uncoated papers without the need to use two different plate types. In the past, a hard plate like the nyloflex ACE UP and medium hard plate like nyloflex ACT were often combined to achieve the optimum result. At one customer case, we were able to reduce this complexity for up to 60% of the print jobs by using the nyloflex FTM Digital.” An additional benefit is the better plate filling that could be achieved and thereby reducing the plate waste and total plate cost in the plate making process. nyloflex  FTM Digital plates are commercially available in 1.14 mm (0.045 in) to 2.84 mm (0.112 in) thicknesses and in varying plate sizes. The nyloflex FTM Digital plate material will be available for shipment as of May 31, 2021.
www.xsysglobal.com

PICUP Polska Launches Europe’s First-Ever Plantable Paper Cups

Julie Fernandes
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PICUP today announced the launch of the first-ever plantable paper cups under its brand PICUP to be available across Poland. This new range of plantable paper cups is the first of its kind, that will be available across Poland and eventually Europe. Application for the patent was successful and the company has bagged the intellectual property rights for the product design. This is the first product launch, and the company is looking forward to collaborating and partnering with new channels for growth. “Our team has done an excellent job to create a unique design that is practical and we are in the process to come up with packaging solutions that are more environmentally friendly and sustainable”, said Marcin Grzymislawski the founder of PICUP, Polska. In the coming days, PICUP will start rolling out its products in several markets across Europe, and customers across Europe will be able to plant a tree with their cup of coffee or tea. “We are making efforts to make these products available in the major food chains and coffee stores, and on major online platforms,” said the founder. The cups are 100% biodegradable, plantable, practical, and easy to carry which makes them very attractive especially in the times when our planet needs this the most. Each cup can grow a plant at its disposal, as it contains seeds at the bottom of the filter.
www.picup.pl
 

Mitsui Chemicals, IBM Japan to Start Joint Efforts Toward Building a Blockchain-Based Resource Circulation Platform

Julie Fernandes
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Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. President & CEO: HASHIMOTO Osamu and IBM Japan, Ltd. President: YAMAGUCHI Akio today announced plans to start working together on a resource circulation platform that utilizes blockchain technology. The aim through this is to ensure the traceability of materials – a hurdle to clear on the way to achieving a circular economy.
While plastic demand continues to rise around the world, the problems caused by plastic waste are becoming more and more apparent – driving stronger calls than ever for society to shift to a recycling-based economy. Yet to make practical use of recycled raw materials, those involved need to be able to ensure traceability, such as by being able to specify the materials in use.
With the resource circulation platform being planned by Mitsui Chemicals and IBM Japan, the aim is to ensure traceability throughout the resource life cycle, from raw materials like monomers and polymers through to the manufacturing, sales and use of products. This aim applies also to the recycling process thereafter, in which used products are recovered, dismantled, shredded and sorted into raw materials that can be reused to manufacture new products. Additionally, the platform is intended to visualize matters such as the manufacturing processes for recycled raw materials, examination methods, physical properties and quality-related data, thereby facilitating the smooth flow of goods.
Utilizing blockchain technology for this traceability system will aid in making supply chains more transparent. It will also allow various stakeholders to guarantee the neutrality and fairness of operations, make it possible to optimize business transactions and inspections, and help those involved go paperless.
 
“Mitsui Chemicals sees climate change and plastic waste as important issues that need to be focused on,” said SAMBE Masao, Executive Officer in charge of Mitsui Chemicals’ Digital Transformation Division.* “If we want to solve these issues as a society, we can no longer stick to a one-way economy in which we simply consume resources and dispose of them. Instead, we’ll need to work on building a circular economy that recovers, recycles and reuses its resources.
“Here at Mitsui Chemicals, we plan to leverage the wealth of expertise and skill we’ve built up through our work with monomers and polymers, as well as the eco-friendly technologies and expertise we’re currently working on, including for recycling. By combining this all with digital transformation technologies, most notably blockchain technology, we will go about building a resource circulation platform that acts as a materials traceability system, helping in turn to bring about a circular economy.”
*Mitsui Chemicals established the Digital Transformation Division in April 2021. Going forward, this new division will work to speed up digital transformation efforts throughout the company, with a particular focus on business operations and supply chains.
For this project, IBM Japan will take the wide-ranging expertise and skill it has built up in assisting various companies in their digital transformation endeavors and utilize these to verify the setup of new blockchain-based digital platform. Capitalizing on blockchain technology will allow companies to guarantee neutrality and fairness here, as well as ensure an advanced level of security. Further, with cloud technology to offer speedy setup and flexibility, the use of AI, as well as the construction of a hybrid cloud that can link up with its existing systems will be considered. The products set to be used for all this are the IBM Blockchain Platform, as well as IBM Cloud, a public cloud service that serves as the foundation for this platform.
Upon building the resource circulation platform for plastic material traceability, Mitsui Chemicals and IBM Japan will work together toward demonstration testing.
https://ap.mitsuichemicals.com/

PLASTICS Applauds Introduction of Bipartisan Recycling Legislation

Julie Fernandes
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WASHINGTON – Tony Radoszewski, President & CEO of the Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS) issued the following statement in support of the bipartisan Plastic Waste Reduction and Recycling Act introduced today by Representatives Haley Stevens (D-MI) and Anthony Gonzalez (R-OH). The bill would improve the federal government’s recycling research and development coordination.

“This commonsense, bipartisan legislation will go a long way in laying the groundwork to significantly improve recycling in America. Representatives Stevens and Gonzalez have shown incredible leadership in making clear progress towards a more sustainable economy. We are eager to work with every member of Congress to ensure this bill gets over the finish line and signed into law.”

“We know there are innovative companies ready to use more recycled material to create new products and prevent waste from entering the environment. This is a win-win for American innovation and our environment.” 

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New process makes ‘biodegradable’ plastics truly compostable

Julie Fernandes
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Biodegradable plastics have been advertised as one solution to the plastic pollution problem bedeviling the world, but today’s “compostable” plastic bags, utensils and cup lids don’t break down during typical composting and contaminate other recyclable plastics, creating headaches for recyclers. Most compostable plastics, made primarily of the polyester known as polylactic acid, or PLA, end up in landfills and last as long as forever plastics.

University of California, Berkeley, scientists have now invented a way to make these compostable plastics break down more easily, with just heat and water, within a few weeks, solving a problem that has flummoxed the plastics industry and environmentalists.

“People are now prepared to move into biodegradable polymers for single-use plastics, but if it turns out that it creates more problems than it’s worth, then the policy might revert back,” said Ting Xu, UC Berkeley professor of materials science and engineering and of chemistry. “We are basically saying that we are on the right track. We can solve this continuing problem of single-use plastics not being biodegradable.”

Xu is the senior author of a paper describing the process that will appear in this week’s issue of the journal Nature.

The new technology should theoretically be applicable to other types of polyester plastics, perhaps allowing the creation of compostable plastic containers, which currently are made of polyethylene, a type of polyolefin that does not degrade. Xu thinks that polyolefin plastics are best turned into higher value products, not compost, and is working on ways to transform recycled polyolefin plastics for reuse.

The new process involves embedding polyester-eating enzymes in the plastic as it’s made. These enzymes are protected by a simple polymer wrapping that prevents the enzyme from untangling and becoming useless. When exposed to heat and water, the enzyme shrugs off its polymer shroud and starts chomping the plastic polymer into its building blocks — in the case of PLA, reducing it to lactic acid, which can feed the soil microbes in compost. The polymer wrapping also degrades.

The process eliminates microplastics, a byproduct of many chemical degradation processes and a pollutant in its own right. Up to 98% of the plastic made using Xu’s technique degrades into small molecules.

One of the study’s co-authors, former UC Berkeley doctoral student Aaron Hall, has spun off a company to further develop these biodegradable plastics.

Making plastic self-destruct

Plastics are designed not to break down during normal use, but that also means they don’t break down after they’re discarded. The most durable plastics have an almost crystal-like molecular structure, with polymer fibers aligned so tightly that water can’t penetrate them, let alone microbes that might chew up the polymers, which are organic molecules.

Xu’s idea was to embed nanoscale polymer-eating enzymes directly in a plastic or other material in a way that sequesters and protects them until the right conditions unleash them. In 2018, she showed how this works in practice. She and her UC Berkeley team embedded in a fiber mat an enzyme that degrades toxic organophosphate chemicals, like those in insecticides and chemical warfare agents. When the mat was immersed in the chemical, the embedded enzyme broke down the organophosphate.

Her key innovation was a way to protect the enzyme from falling apart, which proteins typically do outside of their normal environment, such as a living cell. She designed molecules she called random heteropolymers, or RHPs, that wrap around the enzyme and gently hold it together without restricting its natural flexibility. The RHPs are composed of four types of monomer subunits, each with chemical properties designed to interact with chemical groups on the surface of the specific enzyme. They degrade under ultraviolet light and are present at a concentration of less than 1% of the weight of the plastic — low enough not to be a problem.

For the research reported in the Nature paper, Xu and her team used a similar technique, enshrouding the enzyme in RHPs and embedding billions of these nanoparticles throughout plastic resin beads that are the starting point for all plastic manufacturing. She compares this process to embedding pigments in plastic to color them. The researchers showed that the RHP-shrouded enzymes did not change the character of the plastic, which could be melted and extruded into fibers like normal polyester plastic at temperatures around 170 degrees Celsius, or 338 degrees Fahrenheit.

To trigger degradation, it was necessary only to add water and a little heat. At room temperature, 80% of the modified PLA fibers degraded entirely within about one week. Degradation was faster at higher temperatures. Under industrial composting conditions, the modified PLA degraded within six days at 50 degrees Celsius (122 F). Another polyester plastic, PCL (polycaprolactone), degraded in two days under industrial composting conditions at 40 degrees Celsius (104 F). For PLA, she embedded an enzyme called proteinase K that chews PLA up into molecules of lactic acid; for PCL, she used lipase. Both are inexpensive and readily available enzymes.

“If you have the enzyme only on the surface of the plastic, it would just etch down very slowly,” Xu said. “You want it distributed nanoscopically everywhere so that, essentially, each of them just needs to eat away their polymer neighbors, and then the whole material disintegrates.”

Composting

The quick degradation works well with municipal composting, which typically takes 60 to 90 days to turn food and plant waste into usable compost. Industrial composting at high temperatures takes less time, but the modified polyesters also break down faster at these temperatures.

Xu suspects that higher temperatures make the enshrouded enzyme move around more, allowing it to more quickly find the end of a polymer chain and chew it up and then move on to the next chain. The RHP-wrapped enzymes also tend to bind near the ends of polymer chains, keeping the enzymes near their targets.

The modified polyesters do not degrade at lower temperatures or during brief periods of dampness, she said. A polyester shirt made with this process would withstand sweat and washing at moderate temperatures, for example. Soaking in water for three months at room temperature did not cause the plastic to degrade.

Soaking in lukewarm water does lead to degradation, as she and her team demonstrated.

“It turns out that composting is not enough — people want to compost in their home without getting their hands dirty, they want to compost in water,” she said. “So, that is what we tried to see. We used warm tap water. Just warm it up to the right temperature, then put it in, and we see in a few days it disappears.”

Xu is developing RHP-wrapped enzymes that can degrade other types of polyester plastic, but she also is modifying the RHPs so that the degradation can be programmed to stop at a specified point and not completely destroy the material. This might be useful if the plastic were to be remelted and turned into new plastic.

The project is in part supported by the Department of Defense’s Army Research Office, an element of the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s Army Research Laboratory.

“These results provide a foundation for the rational design of polymeric materials that could degrade over relatively short timescales, which could provide significant advantages for Army logistics related to waste management,” said Stephanie McElhinny, Ph.D., program manager with the Army Research Office. “More broadly, these results provide insight into strategies for the incorporation of active biomolecules into solid-state materials, which could have implications for a variety of future Army capabilities, including sensing, decontamination and self-healing materials.”

Xu said that programmed degradation could be the key to recycling many objects. Imagine, she said, using biodegradable glue to assemble computer circuits or even entire phones or electronics, then, when you’re done with them, dissolving the glue so that the devices fall apart and all the pieces can be reused.

“It is good for millennials to think about this and start a conversation that will change the way we interface with Earth,” Xu said. “Look at all the wasted stuff we throw away: clothing, shoes, electronics like cellphones and computers. We are taking things from the earth at a faster rate than we can return them. Don’t go back to Earth to mine for these materials, but mine whatever you have, and then convert it to something else.”

https://chemistry.berkeley.edu/

BLEND COLOURS LAUNCHES THE UHT BLACK MASTERBATCH, REDEFINES MILK PACKAGING

Julie Fernandes
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With product specifications validated in compliance with the proven and accepted ASTM standards, and Blend Colours being a well-accepted brand by the global markets, the UHT Masterbatch will help processors with its significant value proposition.

‘Making in India’ for the world! A statement well substantiated by the R&D team at Blend Colours with the successful launch of its UHT Masterbatch. This well validated product provides high grade of opacity and protection from UV degradation.

Benchmarked against the best-in-class specifications and performance globally, this product from Blend Colours is all set to make a big impact globally as well as capture a huge market locally. Saving significant foreign exchange, BLEND BLACK D441628 provides a huge advantage to the Indian dairy industry of global quality, at local price.

With product specifications validated in compliance with the proven and accepted ASTM standards, and Blend Colours being a well-accepted brand by the global markets, the UHT Masterbatch will help processors with its significant value proposition.

This PE carrier resin comes with 40%±1% carbon content, no filler, excellent dispersion with heat stability at 280 – 300°C; well-suited for preservation of UHT processed milk with an unrefrigerated life of 6 – 9 months. It is used with LLDPE, tie-layer as the second inner layer. Most suitable for 5- layer / 7-layer products, the barrier properties of this product contributes to a higher shelf-life.

No gel formation, suitability to be used on high-speed filling lines, high barrier properties and filterability, high opacity at less dosage and being recyclable are attributes that are fundamental to this product.

“With global markets to be the early adopters, we have made sure that the testing and certifications are done keeping in mind the requirements of perhaps the most stringent markets,” shares Shailesh Lahoti, Director, Blend
Colours Pvt. Ltd., and responsible for the company’s export business.

www.blendcolours.com

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