STUDENT AWARDS - Call for Student Papers at ANTEC® 2025
The Society of Plastic Engineers: Australia-New Zealand Section (SPE: A-NZ Section) is offering student awards worth A$3,000 for...
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Sep 292 min read
How to Break Down Polymers Using Light and Oxygen
Researchers discovered how to break down polymers effectively, without using high temperatures or pressures. The researchers from The...
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Aug 282 min read
Can Flexible Plastic Packaging Be Recycled?
The TotalRecycle MRF in Pennsylvania led a groundbreaking project that effectively sorted and repurposed flexible plastic packaging (FPP)...
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Jul 102 min read
SPE Granted Accreditation by United Nations Environment Assembly
SPE recently announced its accreditation with the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA). This noteworthy distinction establishes SPE...
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Apr 163 min read
Replacing plastics with alternatives is worse for greenhouse gas emissions in most cases, study finds
Substituting plastics with alternative materials is likely to result in increased GHG emissions, according to research from the...
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Mar 202 min read
SPE: A-NZ President Letter
I hope you had a wonderful break and an amazing start to this year. I would like to use this opportunity to explain SPE ANZ's plan for...
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Feb 81 min read
Farewell ERNST WIRTZ
Vale ERNST WIRTZ With the recent sudden passing of Plastic Pioneer long-time member ERNST WIRTZ, a Celebration of his Life is being held,...
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Nov 5, 20232 min read
Sidel’s new bottle base design helps enable production of all-rPET bottles for carbonated soft drink
New StarLITE R bottle said to offer wider processing window of recycled PET for blow molders Blow molding machinery maker Sidel has...
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Oct 28, 20234 min read
Plastics and Circular Economy conference attendees cast their votes for Australia’s future
Conference attendees vote to stay the course and not shirk from ambitious circularity targets for plastics. There is broad support for...
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Oct 19, 20232 min read
Lego drops plan to make its bricks from recycled PET bottles
Lego has found it’s not easy being green. The Danish toymaker spent years testing PET resin made from recycled bottles as a potential...
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Oct 13, 20234 min read
Outcomes from Plastics and the Circular Economy Conference 2023
Australia and EU are two jurisdictions with potential to achieve full plastics circularity The recently completed 2023 Plastics and...
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Oct 2, 20233 min read
A New Way of Controlling the Parison in Extrusion Blow Molding
Ottmar Brandau’s new patent suggests using die rings with spring-loaded pistons A newly issued patent aims to enhance control of the...
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Sep 27, 20233 min read
Brazilian partners commercialize graphene-enhanced stretch film
Sevenpack and Gerdau Graphene say new PE film marks a ‘world first’ Brazilian flexible polyethylene film producer Sevenpack has...
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Aug 26, 20231 min read
Interview with Helen Millicer, PCEC 2023 conference curator
Helen Millicer, GAICD, Churchill Fellow, our conference curator catches up with Sally Williams from Martogg & Company to talk about what...
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Aug 26, 20231 min read
Interview with SPE ANZ president, Hamed Ghajarnia
SPE ANZ is the go-to with regard to scientific and engineering knowledge relating to plastics. Martogg Industry Moment team, Sally...
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Aug 22, 20233 min read
New Polyolefin Recycling Technology Has Commercial Promise
In the past, we discussed a technology developed at Virginia Tech University, in which the long-chain molecules of waste...
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Jul 23, 20231 min read
CSIRO Innovate to Grow program: Ending plastic waste
Applications are open for a free 10-week program for small to medium enterprises (SMEs) working on plastic or recycling solutions and...
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Jul 9, 20233 min read
Surmounting Challenges in the Medical Plastic Injection Molding Industry
Medical plastic injection moulding companies play a critical role in supplying the healthcare industry with reliable and safe medical...
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Jun 4, 20233 min read
'Paper can't be a solution to plastic waste': Canadian environmentalists warn about the rise in sing
The prohibition of single-use plastic products is crucial to Canada's plan of achieving zero plastic waste by 2030, but with the ban,...
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