Press Releases

Spectrum Plastics Group, a global solutions provider for development through scaled manufacturing of critical polymer-based components and devices for medical and other demanding markets, has just completed a major renovation and cleanroom expansion at its Minneapolis, MN facility. With our continued growth in implantable products and critical to function medical components, it was important that we invest in additional state-of-the-art cleanroom capabilities to support current and

O2COOL® LLC announces a rebranding to O2C Brands® LLC. The new name reflects the corporate strategy of being a synergistic operating company of multiple consumer brands. “O2C Brands is a better reflection of who we are and where we are headed as a business. We are much more than simply O2COOL, our heritage brand. The new name and corporate structure allow us to layer additional brands and product lines into our business,” said Eric Lockwood, CEO of O2C Brands.

SPRIN-D announced their selection of C-Cause, a project partnership led by The Alfred Wegener Institute, Carbonwave, GEOMAR and Seafields, as one of five projects chosen for their ‘Carbon-to-Value' challenge. SPRIN-D (Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation) is funded by the German Federal Government and tasked with financially supporting break-through ideas. The team is supported by BASF to help provide bio-based feedstocks for use in chemical production processes. This

Gerdau Graphene, the nanotechnology company pioneering advanced graphene-enhanced materials for industrial applications, announced that it has created next-generation graphene-enhanced plastics at a Brazilian government-funded advanced materials center in São Paulo. The new graphene-enhanced polymeric resin masterbatches formulas for polyethylene (PP) and polypropylene (PE) were created in partnership with Brazil's EMBRAPII SENAI/SP Advanced Materials Unit, and are being piloted in

INDEVCO Plastics, a member of INDEVCO North America Plastics Division, is now operating in its 100,000 square-foot greenfield plant on Prosperity Drive in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Construction of the flexible packaging facility began in 2021 in Orangeburg County Industrial Park and houses manufacturing, warehousing, offices, and laboratory space.  “Our plant in Orangeburg further cements the commitment of our Board of Directors and owners to grow INDEVCO Plastics in No

Together with an ecosystem of partners the non-profit H&M Foundation launched a first of its kind USD 11 million initiative in 2020, to address the gaps in the system that keep Bengaluru waste pickers in poverty and exclusion. Now, plastic waste collected by informal waste pickers is becoming a valued resource in the fashion and textile industry, providing a higher income and recognition as an integral part of the circular value chain. Buttons partly made from the plastic waste are now fe

BASF has calculated the individual product carbon footprints (PCF) of a large part of its portfolio of chemical intermediates1. The results were compared with assessments of market-wide average carbon footprints of the corresponding products of third parties2. The outcome of the analysis shows that due to the production set-up the PCF of a range of BASF’s chemical intermediates is significantly below the global average PCF of the corresponding third-party chemicals

Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "Blow-Molded Plastics Global Market Report 2022" - https://www.reportlinker.com/p06284142/?utm_source=GNW, Agri-Industrial Plastics, Garrtech Inc, North American Plastics Ltd., Creative Blow Mold Tooling, Pet All Manufacturing Inc., Exxon Mobil Corporation, and APEX Plastics. The global blow-molded plastics market is expected to grow from $86.39 billion in 2021 to $89.30 billion in 2022 at a compound annual growth rate (

Late last week, after over two years of litigation, Earth Island Institute, represented by Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, received an order from the San Mateo County Superior Court allowing its landmark lawsuit to proceed against 10 major plastic consumer goods companies for the nuisance allegedly created by their plastic packaging, including polluting California waterways with plastic trash and touting products as recyclable when they’re not. Judge V. Raymond Swope of the Sa

Origin Materials, Inc., the world’s leading carbon negative materials company with a mission to enable the world’s transition to sustainable materials, announced today that it has earned the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Certified Biobased Product label for multiple additional products. The certification affirms that Origin’s furandicarboxylic acid (“FDCA”), purified terephthalic acid (“PTA”), and para-xylene (“pX”), when produced

KBR, Inc., is pleased to announce it has entered into an agreement to invest an additional $100 million in Mura Technology ("Mura") bringing KBR's aggregate investment in Mura to 18.5%. This investment provides Mura incremental capital to accelerate development of its plastics recycling projects and enables KBR to participate more fully in this sustainability-focused, high growth sector. Funding is expected in two tranches with the first payment in the quarter ended Ju

Repeats Group B.V., a pan-European plastics recycling platform focused on producing high-quality recycled low-density polyethylene ("LDPE"), today announced that it has made an investment in Daly Plastics ("Daly Plastics," "Daly" or the "Company"), a producer of recycled LDPE located in the eastern part of the Netherlands, near Apeldoorn. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Repeats is a portfolio company of Ara Partners ("Ara&quo