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Dublin, April 30, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Global Wood Plastic Composites Market 2020-2028" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. This report has determined that the global wood plastic composites market would show growth at a CAGR of 9.54% and 8.35% in terms of revenue and volume, respectively, in the estimated years 2020-2028. The increasing demand by the building and construction industry is the main factor driving the growth of the global wood plastic composites market. In addition, the rising demand for recyclable materials in the manufacturing process of the automotive industry, coupled with the ban on the use of arsenic toxins, chromium and copper toxins, is driving the market growth. Increasing environmental concern in society and the rising demand for PVC-capped decking products are likely to create lucrative opportunities for the market. However, product performance limitations, being susceptible to ...

Mundelein, Ill.-based Commercial Plastics Co. has purchased the assets of Imperial Plastics Inc., a Lakeville, Minn.-based custom injection molder. Terms were not disclosed. Imperial Plastics is a diverse thermoplastic molder with insert, gas-assisted and structural foam molding technologies. It has a 400,000-square-foot plant in Mora, Minn., and a leased headquarters plant in Lakeville. Imperial Plastics was founded in 1968 and serves the agricultural, building materials, outdoor recreation and industrials end markets. It had a third plant in Mankato, Minn., which it opened in 2014 but closed in early 2017 after it lost contracts from one of its major customers who moved production outside the United States. Commercial Plastics is dates back to 1940 and is owned by brothers Bill and Matt O'Connor. It has plants in Mundelein; Waverly, Neb.; and Kenosha, Wis. According to the company's website, it has 130 presses ranging from 55-2,000 tons of clamping force, and about 32...

"The notion of 'end of life' doesn't exist in Material Ecology, since the assumption is that every product we use, every building we inhabit, can degrade by design to fuel new growth," designer and MIT Media Lab professor Neri Oxman, who coined the term "material ecology" and led the project, says in an email. "What if we could substitute 'end of life' with 'physical incarnation'?" Aguahoja, the winner of the in the art and design category in Fast Company's 2020 World Changing Ideas Awards, uses a robotic platform to 3D print a plastic alternative using organic compounds from waste suspended in water. In one iteration, an architectural pavilion called Aguahoja I, 16-foot tall panels were made from a combination of chitosan (a component of shrimp shells), cellulose from plants, and pectin from apples, 3D printed in different combinations to affect the color, strength, transparency, and other attributes of the final product, i...

TAMP Inc. is pleased to announce renowned board certified plastic surgeon from Newport Beach California, Dr. Sean Kelishadi, President of SSK Plastic Surgery, is joining the TAMP Inc. Board of Directors. Los Angeles, CA, April 27, 2020 --(PR.com)-- TAMP Inc. is building a global community in Aesthetic Medicine, enabling Innovation, Networking & Technology while leveraging the powerful "WE" (West & East) AMPdr(TM)" online-onsite platform ecosystem for wellness. In an exponentially growing digital age, doctors must now recombine and synthesize diverse new ideas or be left behind. "3rd Culture" Doctors must evolve into "4th Culture Doctor" and together, with TAMP Inc. are building an environment where transformation can begin. Dr. Kelishadi is not only a top surgeon, he is also a technologist, "surgineer" and innovator, and is a perfect fit for TAMP Inc. to help lead and develop strategies as they continue to grow their global commu...

Click to expand UP NEXT SADDLE RIVER — A Fort Lee plastic surgeon is helping hospitals get protective gear by converting his medical device facility to produce full-face shield parts, and recruiting volunteers to assemble them. Resident Paul Rosenberg has set up about 100 volunteers in 12-person shifts at Wandell School to produce between 3,000 and 4,000 finished shields since they started April 15. He estimates they can produce at least 500 a day. © Photo courtesy of Julian Rosenberg Julian Rosenberg models one of the masks being assembled at Wandell School in Saddle River. "I was racking my brain how to get these produced," Rosenberg said. "I turned to our project manager, Sal Romano, and he ran with the idea." Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. Romano was able to reprogram the breast imp...

POP Projects is a collection of new and classic projects from more than a century of Popular Mechanics. Master skills, get tool recommendations, and, most importantly, build something of your very own. Summer's nearly here, and I'm ready for it. I've got a new seven-burner gas grill and four ground-shaking speakers for my outdoor sound system—and I've built a sturdy picnic table to replace my old one. (It was a creaky, splintered mess of lumber that listed to one side like a parallelogram.) The new table took a weekend to construct, including a trip to a home center to hand-pick the lumber and buy fasteners. One of the project's best features: The top and bench seats are made from composite decking, a material ­fashioned from plastic resin and sawdust. It's easy to clean, it's impervious to wood-boring insects, and it never ­splinters. I chose pressure-treated 2x lumber for other parts of the project—and rust-proof fasteners everywhere. I have to adm...

The developers of a proposed plastics manufacturing plant in Ohio on Friday indefinitely delayed a final decision on whether to proceed, citing economic uncertainties around the coronavirus pandemic. Their announcement was a blow to the Trump administration and local economic development officials, who envision a petrochemical hub along the Ohio River in Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Environmental activists have opposed what they say would be heavily polluting installations and say bringing the petrochemical industry to this part of Appalachia is the wrong move for a region befouled for years by coal and steel. Thailand's PTT Global Chemical America and South Korea's Daelim Industrial have been planning major investments in the $5.7 billion plant, 60 miles southwest of Pittsburgh, for several years.    On the site of a former coal-fired power plant, the facility would have turned abundant ethane from fracking in the Marcellus and Utica shale regions into ethyle...

Sentinel-2 data access Sentinel-2 is an Earth observation mission developed and operated by ESA under the Copernicus Programme. The Multi-Spectral Instruments (MSI) aboard Sentinel-2A and 2B work passively, and optical data is acquired along the orbital path at high spatial resolution (10 m, 20 m and 60 m) over land and adjoining coastal waters. Thought Copernicus program, MSI data are made available at no cost to users. We downloaded Level 1C products (at-sensor radiance) via the Copernicus and ESA Open Access Hub. Atmospheric correction The inherent optical properties (IOPs) of floating materials can be leveraged for detection in Sentinel-2 imagery if NIR to SWIR wavelengths are conserved during the atmospheric correction process16. Ocean and atmospheric components (scattering and absorption) were subtracted from surface reflectance values using ACOLITE (Atmospheric Correction for OLI lite version 20181210.0). This marine atmospheric correction was developed for coastal waters using ...

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Chemical recycling, aka "advanced recycling," provides a way to rid the world of difficult-to-recycle plastics and produce many valuable end products. According to information supplied by Eastman Chemical (Kingsport, TN), chemical recycling alters the physical form of used plastics, either by dissolving the plastics with chemicals or using heat to break down polymers into their original components (monomers), resulting in a purified form of plastic or chemical products and feedstocks used to create new plastics, fuels, or other products. A report from McKinsey & Co., "How Plastic Waste Recycling Could Transform the Chemical Industry," noted that chemical recycling could be a viable method for recycling in "emerging-market countries" that lack the infrastructure for waste collection and management, including sorting trash into different waste streams. "Monomer recycling, although it is inherently restricted in its application to condensation-type...

Challenges aside, the effort is ramping up. Karp said at its peak, it wants to have capacity at various companies around the state to make 45,000 face shields a day. He expects to reach that around April 23, with several different groups of companies manufacturing independently of one another. "We went from an idea to a prototype to building a new local supply chain to production in less than two weeks," Karp said. "This should have been impossible, but we got it done." When the need became apparent, Karp said his group, Magnet, worked with Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and Eaton to make a prototype, with design ideas from doctors and hospitals. Then they started soliciting the state's manufacturing community for ways to turn it into mass production reality. That outreach was done as part of the Ohio Manufacturing Alliance to Fight COVID-19, which DeWine formed April 1 with business and hospital groups. DeWine sees it as a way to make much-neede...

A French startup has pioneered a new way of using enzymes to recycle plastics more efficiently than current methods. Why it matters: Existing recycling procedures for many plastics downgrade the material, only staving off the day in which it will end up in a landfill. A method that could fully recycle plastics would be a game-changer. Of the roughly 359 million tons of plastics produced each year worldwide, more than half ends up in a landfill or the natural environment. Part of the reason such a small percentage of plastics is recycled is that the material tends to degrade during the current recycling process. What remains can often only be used for low-value products. This is especially true for the most abundant form of plastics, PET, which is used in bottles and packaging. The startup Carbios, founded in 2011, has discovered enzymes that can break down a plastic bottle in a matter of hours, producing leftover material good enough to reconstitute into new bottles. How it works: The ...

Clinton Township, Mich. — It's been Adam Smith's dream to start his own custom injection molding company. He wasn't about to let the coronavirus pandemic stop him. Smith recently announced the startup of Millennium Plastics LLC, an automotive molder in the Detroit suburb of Clinton Township. Smith was a member of the Plastics News Rising Stars class of 2016 when he was operations manager at Prism Plastics Inc., an injection molder that specializes in critical safety parts for the automotive sector in nearby Chesterfield, Mich. At the time, he was asked, "What job do you really want to have in the future?" His reply: "I'm hoping to become a CEO/president of an injection molding company, maybe start my own company." A year later, right after he turned 30, Smith was promoted to Prism's vice president of operations. He credits his experience at Prism with preparing him to start his own company. "I learned so much from how to run an o...

Related How to get an unemployment application Restaurants and organizations offering free food COVID-19 cases broken down by city HIALEAH, FLA. (WSVN) - A Hialeah company is set to host a different kind of drive-thru distribution as they offer aid during the coronavirus pandemic. Faulkner Plastics, located at 7275 W. 20th Ave., will be distributing face shields for healthcare workers at Palmetto General Hospital, Thursday morning. The company shut down all regular operations so that employees from the hospital could pick up two face shields free of cost. "Given the news this week about the lack of supplies at our closest hospital, Palmetto General right here, we said, 'This is a good first public announcement donation,'" said Faulkner Plastics Vice President Joseph McCabe. The company will be distributing a total of 300 face shields. Any hospital employee who wishes to collect a pair will have to provide proper identification. Employees with t...

Lego has moved from making their signature interlocking plastic building blocks to manufacturing over 13,000 protective visors a day for Danish healthcare workers - doing their part to assist in the fight against the coronavirus spread. The company's base in Billund, Demark, put forth their efforts this week to create special molds, normally used for their play materials, into templates for the medical visors to be distributed around the country. Around 100 employees were involved in the project, according to Lego. "This week we began to make visors at our factory in Billund for healthcare workers on the frontline in Denmark. We are so incredibly proud of the team who made this happen," Lego wrote on its official Instagram page. "They worked around the clock to create designs and make molds that can produce more than 13,000 visors a day. We are grateful to have such talented, dedicated and caring colleagues." Lego provided their followers with photos d...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy has extended the application deadlines associated with a $25 million funding opportunity announcement (FOA) made in March to support plastics recycling research and development as part of the Plastics Innovation Challenge. Information posted to the EERE's Exchange website indicates the extension is related to the COVID-19 pandemic. DOE's Advanced Manufacturing Office and Bioenergy Technologies Office issued a FOA on March 16 titled "BOTTLE: Bio-Optimized Technologies to Keep Thermoplastics out of Landfills and the Environment." The FOA will support the development of new plastics that are capable of efficient recyclability and on improving recycling strategies that can break existing plastics into chemical building blocks that can be used to make higher-value products. A portion of the funding is expected to support the development of novel biobased plastics. Concept papers for ...

Click here to read the full article. Correct Craft, the parent of multiple boat and engine brands, including the high-end Nautique line of towboats, has reassigned production team members to Covid-19 work in its Orlando, Fla., and Modesto, Calif., facilities. The boatbuilder is making medical-grade face masks and plastic face shields for regional hospitals and other facilities. "We've temporarily suspended boat production and are using some of those resources to do Covid-19 work," Correct Craft CEO Bill Yeargin, told Robb Report. "Our Correct Craft team is happy to help our health care community during this global pandemic." More from Robb Report Its Ski Centurion facility in California has made about 1,000 face shields, which are being donated to local health care facilities. In Orlando, the company's Watershed Innovations facility has been cutting large sheets of plastic which will be turned into 30,000 face shields. At the Nautique Boats facility, workers...

SHELTON — Modern Plastics has retrofitted its factory to produce personal protective equipment through the COVID-19 pandemic. The company, based at 88 Long Hill Cross Road, has transitioned from a producer of medical-grade plastics to a provider of plastic face shields, dividers and other equipment. The 75-year-old manufacturing company's decision led to its parent company, […] LOG IN REQUIRED LOG IN to your accountREGISTER to access your 5 FREE ARTICLES a month. Print Subscribers click here to ACTIVATE your accessPURCHASE a Digital subscription Use the form below for instant purchase of an online subscription. LOG IN             Register and Purchase a Subscription 2020 Investment Community Meeting | Segment 4 of 4

Share This Article: By Molly Bowman-Styles California's plastic bag ban is in jeopardy. We can save it together, but we must act now. Support Times of San Diego's growthwith a small monthly contribution Become a supporter The plastics industry is exploiting the coronavirus pandemic to rescind plastic bag bans in states and cities across the country. Within days of President Trump's declaration of a national emergency, plastics industry lobbyists and their legislative allies launched a national campaign calling for the rollback of laws prohibiting single-use plastic bags. Fingering unwashed reusable shopping bags as a breeding ground for the coronavirus, the Plastics Industry Association asked the federal government to issue a public statement promoting the "health and safety benefits seen in single-use plastics" and "speaking out against bans on these...

AUSTINTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) – An Austintown plastics company is doing its part to help amid the coronavirus pandemic. Dinesol Plastics usually make items like toys, totes, garbage cans and plastics used in plumbing and building. Those lines were shut down about 10 days ago, but they will return on Monday. Dinesol has been molding a face shield and strap, even attaching a piece of foam to it. They can make three of these per minute. The shields are going to the Mahoning, Trumbull and Columbiana County EMA. "The Valley has been very good to us. This is an opportunity to give back and it's a duty. A lot of people on our team are excited to do this because it's a positive thing. There's not been a lot of positive news in the last 30 days and this gives everybody something very positive to work for and I think it's great for morale," said Bob Hendricks, president of Dinesol Plasti...

California-based Brightmark Energy, which is currently building a $260 million plastics-to-fuel facility in northeast Indiana, is partnering with an Indianapolis nonprofit to supply materials to be recycled at the plant. The facility, located in the Steuben County town of Ashley, will initially have the capacity to convert about 100,000 tons of plastics into more than 18 million gallons of ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel and naptha blend stocks, as well as 6 million gallons of commercial grade wax each year. As part of the agreement with Indy-based RecycleForce, the nonprofit will supply mixed-plastic materials for recycling. RecycleForce says it will be able to provide Brightmark with up to 1,700 tons per month of mixed plastics that come from a variety of products, such as televisions, computers, car seats, and others. RecycleForce President Greg Keesling says the deal will create a way to offload materials that the organization previously couldn't do anything with. "Increa...

By Robert F. ServiceApr. 8, 2020 , 5:45 PM Recycling isn't as guilt-free as it seems. Only about 30% of the plastic that goes into soda bottles gets turned into new plastic, and it often ends up as a lower strength version. Now, researchers report they've engineered an enzyme that can convert 90% of that same plastic back to its pristine starting materials. Work is underway to scale up the technology and open a demonstration plant next year. "This is a huge step forward," says John McGeehan, who directs the center for enzyme innovation at the University of Portsmouth and who was not involved with the work. Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is one of the world's most commonly used plastics, with some 70 million tons produced annually. PET bottles are already recycled in many places. But the current approach has problems. For starters, recycling...