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PLASTICS
AND
BOARD
A clean sheet
Plans are underway to restructure Altuglas
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International's PMMA sheet business in
Europe in a bid to optimise logistics and
Binders get fruity
reduce delivery times.
President of Altuglas International,
Christophe de Saint Louvent, explained:
Customised presentation, packaging and are complemented by a colour coordinated two “Providing better service for customers,
stationery specialist, Duraweld, has launched a ring mechanism inside which holds up to 200 optimising our logistics network and
new range of funky binders for school, sheets of paper. Prices start at £10 for five up improving delivery times are our major
college or the office. Eight colours are available, to £65 for 50, with free delivery within 10 days. objectives, while ensuring that our large cast-
each named after a different fruit: Red sheet customers remain central to our
Apple, Satsuma, Lemon and Lime, a71a71a71a71 www.duraweld.co.uk manufacturing and sales strategies.”
Clementine, Cherry, Blackberry, Plum and Under the proposals, Altuglas International
Raspberry. would invest in a new logistics platform at its
The vibrant, hardwearing Saint-Avold site in France. This will increase
polypropylene outers capacity for storage and preparation of cast
sheet to simplify and shorten delivery routes.
At the same time, Altuglas would centralise
production of its extruded sheet business to
improve competitiveness.
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Double or drop
on plastic
Coloured polypropylene outers are
complemented by a coordinated ring recycling
mechanism inside
A campaign has been launched by the plastics
industry challenging itself, government and
Printing on the board walk
consumers to step up recycling and stop
sending plastic to landfill.
As part of the Plastics 2020 Challenge, the
More than 250m
2
of fine art prints were not the most elegant way of processing or industry is pledging several commitments on
produced using a Mutoh Zephyr UV printer as presenting fine art photographs. Individual the four R’s – reduce, reuse, recycle and
part of the Theatre at the Seaside festival in photographs for the exhibition in Oostende recover – including doubling the recycling rate
Oostende. Each of the 50 photographs was were realised in one go on our Zephyr UV of plastic packaging by the year 2020.
printed directly onto wide format PVC foam printer. The photos were reproduced on The campaign website is available to
board panels and exhibited along the seaside. Kömatex PVC foam board measuring four members of the public and interest groups to
Mutoh Europe’s managing director, Arthur metres wide by 1.5m high. To handle the 25kg join the debate on the benefits, use and
Vanhoutte, said: “For Mutoh Europe, this Kömatex boards, the Zephyr's input and disposal of plastic products and packaging.
project represented an ideal test case to output tables were extended. Environmental campaigners, such as Friends
explore the limits of our Zephyr UV inkjet “This project proves the flexibility of the of the Earth, will be encouraged to take part in
printer for wide format rigid board Zephyr UV printer as an alternative for print regular web debates, on subjects such as
printing. jobs that are usually run on larger and more marine littering and bio plastics.
“For photo enlargements of this size, expensive UV printers.” Underpinning the Challenge is research by
images are usually tiled into smaller sections to ComRes, which showed that almost a third of
be joined together afterwards, however, this is a71a71a71a71 www.mutoh.eu councillors do not expect to meet the
government’s targets for recycling, composting
and energy recovery next year while a third did
not know if they would meet the targets for
2015 and 2020. Almost a fifth of councillors
reported a risk of council tax bills rising in 2020
because the target would not be met.
Calum Forsyth from the Plastics 2020
Challenge said: “There are plastics businesses in
virtually every constituency in the land. The
industry is worth £19bn to UK Plc and employs
186,000 people. Plastics have become
indispensable and yet debate surrounding their
use and disposal has become unhelpfully
polarised. The challenge is to confront the
issues surrounding this material, as time is
running out options for its disposal.”
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