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Business calls for global UN treaty on plastics pollution
A group of multinational businesses has given support to a global treaty to tackle plastic pollution, which is set to be discussed at a meeting of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) next month. “A new UN treaty is crucial to set a high common standard of action for all countries to abide by, and to drive the transition to a circular economy for plastics globally and at scale,” said the group, which includes polymer producer Borealis and several plastics packaging converters: Alpla, Amcor, Berry Global, Evertis, Flexfilm, Greiner, Minipak, Mondi and Selenis.
The group said a global plastic pollution treaty would need to include upstream and downstream policies, reduce virgin plastic production and use, and decouple plastic production from consumption of fossil resources. At the UNEA 5.2 meeting, due to
take place in Nairobi in Kenya from 28 February to 2 March, an Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee is scheduled to discuss treaty proposals from various UN member states. A resolution from Peru seeks a treaty encompassing circular economy objectives, while another to be tabled
Entek bolts on materials handling with AEF deal
US-based twin screw compounding machinery maker Entek has acquired Adaptive Engineering & Fabrication (AEF), a specialist supplier of difficult-to-handle materials handling systems located at Placentia in California. Entek has worked together with AEF on projects for many years and described combining the companies as a natural next
step in the relationship. “Together we will be able to leverage our teams to better serve our customers,” said Entek Manufacuring President Kim Medford. “We will be even better positioned to share resources and deploy systems that will make building a plant or buying equipment solutions from the combined Entek AEF teams an even better
experience,” she said. AEF will remain at its
current location with its current workforce. Entek said as it expands manufacturing capabilities at its new plant at Henderson, in Nevada, it will build both extrusion and material handling equipment there to support the growth of the combined companies. �
www.entek.com �
www.aef-inc.com
Bolder acquires Pyrolyx plant
Colorado, US-based Bolder Industries has acquired the former Pyrolyx tyres-to- chemicals facility at Terre Haute in Indiana, which closed in March 2020. Bolder plans to retrofit the plant, which has 6,000
12 m2
of space, with its own technology for manufacture of BolderOil feedstock and BolderBlack recycled carbon black. It will invest some $40m in the initial phase, which is expected to be completed in early 2023.
COMPOUNDING WORLD | January 2022 The company claims its
process uses 98% of the tyre material, with 75% of the solids and liquids going back into new tyres, manufactured rubber goods and plastics. �
www.bolderindustries.com
by Japan focuses on a treaty covering plastic pollution and waste management. Information about UNEA 5.2
proposals was presented by Tim Grabiel from UK-based NGO Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) at AMI’s Plastics Recycling Technology conference in October. He said he was optimistic there would be enough support for a treaty to move ahead. In January, the EIA published a
report in which it said that “only a robust global treaty for plastics can address the problem”. �
www.plasticpollutiontreaty.org
Coperion targets fuel cells
Coperion has joined the University of Stuttgart’s Institute for Plastics Technology (IKT), Robert Bosch, and Matthews International/Saueressig in a joint project to develop bipolar plates for proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells. Coperion said the
extremely high fill levels of more than 85% by weight “pose challenges upon the process technology, the likes of which have not been seen before”. It aims to improve addition of fillers using its ZSK twin- screw extruder to avoid creation of agglomerates and degradation of the polymer during compounding. �
www.coperion.com
www.compoundingworld.com
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