DiversiTech, Entropex, and Preserve Receive Awards
November 27, 2013
This year’s winners are being celebrated for developing innovative processes and products using post-industrial and/or post-consumer recycled plastics.
From the 1960s to the 1980s, the plastics industry gave little thought to sensible ways of disposing of or recovering waste plastics but the issue became relevant by 1991 when the German Packaging Ordinance came into effect.
Avantium, a renewable chemicals company, and ALPLA Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH, one of the world’s leading plastic converters, announce their Joint Development Agreement for the development of PEF bottles. After The Coca-Cola Company and Danone, ALPLA is the third company to collaborate with Avantium on PEF, a bioplastic based on Avantium’s proprietary YXY technology. The goal of these collaborations is to bring 100% biobased PEF bottles to the market by 2016.
Toray Plastics (America), Inc., the only United States manufacturer of precision-performance polyester, polypropylene, and bio-based films, has named Kerri Boyens its new Product Manager for the Torayfan® Polypropylene Film Division. She will be responsible for the growth of OPP film products among key customers in the packaging sector.
