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Plastindia unveils world's largest T shirt manufactured from PET

waste bottles

he world’s largest T-shirt has been fashioned out of said, “We cannot manage our day-to-day life without the
Ttwo lakh plastic bottles collected by NGOs from across use of plastics. Right from toothpastes to telephones and
the city. The T-shirt measuring 97.5 metres in height and laptops. We ourselves are wearing plastic. Today, jeans
70.08 in width and made using recycled plastic waste are no more cotton, but made out of polyester.” He said,
“The challenge before us is the disposal of plastic. We are
proud to say that India is one of the largest recyclers of
plastic bottles and other plastics. This initiative is a big
step towards educating people that articles can be made
out of used plastics, they can be reused and recycled.”

Hasco launches new products to

speed mold development

erman mold tooling components producer Hasco
GHasenclever GmbH & Co. KG has introduced

polyethylene terephthalate bottles has created a Guinness three new products, including the H4016/, a fully
World Record. Plastindia Foundation, the apex body of assembled and wired hot-runner system that is ready
plastics industry in India, said it took up the initiative to to install. The robust connection between the hot
create awareness of the need to manage plastics waste runner manifold and the screw-in nozzle guarantees
and recycle them more efficiently. It said it wanted to leak free operation, and makes it easy to mount and
achieve sustainability through the optimal use of plastic remove in the injection mold, Hasco said. Connector
waste. The fabric from the T-shirt will be later used to cables for the individual nozzles and the hot runner
create 10,000 T-shirts and will be distributed to children pass through individually configured cable ducts to the
from the weaker sections of society K.K. Seksaria, connection box, where they are wired up according to
president, Plastindia Foundation, said, “It was a four- the customer’s specifications.
month-long process, which included making the yarn, and Also new from Hasco: The ejector pin Z410/, with an
stitching the T-shirt. Thousands of people were involved anti-twist head that permits the precise centering of
from all over India, and mainly from Mumbai because the individually contoured ejector or core pins in the mold.
project was being executed here.” Simple mounting geometry means the ejector pins can
Mr. Seksaria said, “We have taken up this exercise to
deliver this message to people, in a manner that it is
etched in their minds. We have made the world’s largest
T-shirt out of used plastic bottles within Mumbai. We
want to show to the masses that whenever you see any
plastic material or plastic article, they should not consider
it as a waste material but a raw material of sorts.” Mr.
Seksaria added that the aim was to show that every
plastic material can be a useful resource and it does not
necessarily have to harm the environment if it is used in a
responsible and sustainable manner. “Plastic is not bad and be installed with perfect repeat accuracy, according to
this has been proven today,” said Vimal Kedia, managing the company. Hasco’s mechanical cycle counter, called
director, Manjushree Technopack Limited. Atul Kanuga, A5731/ and A5732/ give a reliable form of monitoring
chairman, Environment and Plastics Image Committee, mold strokes, and an aid to planning mold maintenance.

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