Page 44 - Plastics News February 2025

BUSINESS NEWS
process and replace glass, resulting in a pack-
age that would dramatically cut the beverage’s
weight and the CO2 emissions required to ship
it. To this day, when I see a sports drink bottle
or any plastic product, I consider the purpose-
ful engineering that went into its design, thinking
about the specific material grades and additives
it’s made from and the specialized machines and
molds that created it.
In addition to Comberplast, in this issue you can
read about Mexican film extruder Bioflex apply-
ing new technology to process postindustrial
and postconsumer plastic waste into new films;
Nova Chemicals writing about the opportunities
to be exploited in mechanical recycling of plas-
tics, including its own new facility for reclaiming
GLOW IN DARK MASTERBATCH
FOR POLYOLEFINS
andui Industries Pvt. Ltd. has developed
the NIGHT GLOW series of photolumi-
Knescent masterbatch for Polyolefins. In
daylight the article appears as a semi translu-
cent light green color. In the dark it generates an
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postconsumer polyethylene; and the challenges
of sourcing reclaimed polypropylene, particu-
larly as some studies point to the contamination
of food-contact-intended streams with recycled
electronic waste.
This confluence of content is no accident. At this
moment in the industry, an overwhelming inter-
est to redirect plastics products in their end of
life out of the environment is met by innovative
players and technologies specifically target-
ing that very plastic “waste” as an untapped
resource. The old adage holds that one man’s
trash is another’s treasure, and that might be
true, but I think we can all agree that treating
treasure as “trash” is surely a mistake.
Source – Plastics Technology
attractive and unique green glow. It absorbs light
energy from the daylight or from any other light
source and emission of the same gives a glowing
effect in the dark. The grade can be selected as
per the colour of glow, intensity of glow and the
duration of the glow required. Its mainly used in
injection moulding application for toys & house-
hold items. These masterbatches are available in
Polyethylene & Polystyrene base.
Source – Kandui Industries Private Limited
February 2025