To meet the demands of today's world, the plant and mechanical engineering industry is gearing up their businesses for establishing a circular economy and higher levels of sustainability. But politics must also play its part to enable the industry to keep working on new solutions.
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Japanese scientists have invented a new way to produce polymers. Their new combination technique will make great contributions to the development of plastics. May we anticipate the arrival of more environmentally friendly, heat-resistant and transparent plastic materials.
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Only one third of the produced plastics can be recycled every year. The rest is often considered as too hard to recycle. But nevertheless it plays a major role in many important sectors of the printing industry, for example the packaging production. A few innovative groups of scientists have just searched for a way, which is tackling exactly that challenge of hard-to-recycle plastic.
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Two Finnish companies conducted an interesting study about the differences between paperboard and plastic packaging using the example of packed cherry tomatoes.
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Each year 8 million tons of plastic are added to the already existing amount of marine litter drifting on the ocean surface. This is why electronics manufacturer Dell is now developing a circular supply chain based on laptop packaging made of ocean waste.
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Scientist from NCSU have recently invented a 2D printing technique allowing plastic sheets to bend into curved 3D structures, such as tubes or bowls.
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