What if the life cycle of the plastic bottle was circular? Where a used plastic bottle was returned to its original components, ready to be made into a new plastic bottle instead of possibly ending up ...

Three firms team up to make lighter HDPE bottles using injection stretch blow molding with special copolymer additive.

There are essentially three widely used technologies for manufacturing plastic products: Injection molding, extrusion, and blow molding. Injection molding is the most commonly used process for the ...

Using nanomaterial-based catalysts, we drive depolymerisation, a process that breaks plastics back into their molecular ...

A research team has demonstrated that a material called a metal-organic framework (MOF) is a stable and selective catalyst for breaking down polyester-based plastic into its component parts. Only ...