With a new process, ENGEL makes it possible to process plastic waste as flakes in injection molding directly after grinding. Since pelletizing as a separate process step is eliminated, the innovation ...

Researchers were optimistic about the future of this new method. Scientists unlock groundbreaking process capable of ...

Australia's first large-scale soft plastics recycling facility is processing huge loads each day, turning waste into a useful ...

Advances in materials, tooling, and technology continue to blur the line between the most suitable process and a given application. Thermoforming, of course, can be used to make everything from ...

Each manufacturing sector has a distinctive set of tools, processes, technologies, and challenges. These differences make it extremely difficult, costly, and time consuming for manufacturers to adapt ...

The world is miserable at recycling plastics. Currently, just 10–15% of the plastic waste we generate annually is recycled — with the rest incinerated, buried in landfill or dumped as litter 1, 2. A ...

Biopolymers have a variety of possible applications due to their renewable characteristics and their potential biodegradability. Biopolymers are polymers that are either bio-based, biodegradable, or ...

PROVIDENCE – Nearly a year ago, state environmental regulators turned away a proposal to build a medical waste-to-energy plant in West Warwick that would use a high-heat process known as pyrolysis to ...

In the finalization of an agreement announced last September, the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) is now a division of ...

Turning plastic waste into useful products through chemical recycling is one strategy for addressing Earth's growing plastic pollution problem. A new study may improve the ability of one method, ...

Ottawa, Nov. 26, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The global plastic processing machinery market size was valued at USD 26.28 billion in 2025, the market is projected to grow from USD 27.50 billion in 2026 to ...