Some suppliers say it is, and hope to position clarified PP as a less costly alternative to PET when carton or HDPE packaging is upgraded. Two-stage stretch blowmolding of polypropylene (PP) has long ...

(Editor's note: The following primer on thermoforming PP was submitted by Adam Watson and Brian Burkhart, global market managers at Milliken Chemical, a supplier of nucleating and clarifying agents.) ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Following eight years extensive research, Nextek Ltd has launched a global multi-participant project (NEXTLOOPP) to address a missing link in the plastics recycling stream - ...

The Polypropylene Recycling Coalition, a new industry group that aims to improve recycling of PP packaging, is pledging $35 million over five years to help recover more material and develop end ...

Since introducing its CARE (circularity, alliances, resources and employees) strategy last year, Paccor, a leading German packaging manufacturer, has steadily worked to progress its aim of ...

SABIC, Mars Petcare and Huhtamaki have announced that their collaboration in pet food packaging using certified circular polypropylene (PP) from SABIC’s Trucircle portfolio has been expanded to the ...

Polypropylene (PP) is an important packaging material that is sometimes overlooked and undervalued in the United States’ residential recycling stream. But that trend is rapidly changing, as the value ...

Competitive trends in the packaging industry are exerting pressures on processors to improve productivity and reduce weight as well as costs. This in turn mothballs into pressure on the raw material ...