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Free registration opens for US plastics industry exhibitions
Free online registration is now open for four US-based exhibitions and conferences focused on plastics compounding, extrusion, recycling, and testing. Organised by Compounding World publisher AMI, the Compound- ing World Expo, Plastics Extrusion World Expo, Plastics Recycling World Expo, and Polymer Testing World Expo all take place at the Huntington Convention Center in Cleveland, Ohio, on 4-5 November 2020. By registering in advance, visitors
will receive free admission to all four exhibitions — featuring more than 250 leading suppliers — plus free entry to
the five conference theatres hosting technical presentations, educational seminars and business debates. Attendees and exhibitors also have the option to buy tickets (just $40 each) for a networking party at the Punch Bowl Social on the evening of 4 November. “The event will provide visitors with
a great opportunity to meet and compare suppliers from around the world, as well as giving them the chance to learn from business leaders and technical experts in the confer- ence theatres,” said Rita Andrews, Head of Exhibitions at AMI. “When we ran these expos in Cleveland last year,
we attracted 4,375 visitors, making them the biggest plastics industry gathering in the USA in 2019”. The four expos will occupy the
largest halls at the state-of-the-art Huntington Convention Center in downtown Cleveland. They will feature a wide array of leading manufacturers of compounding, extrusion, recycling, and testing and analysis equipment, plus suppliers of a huge variety of polymers, additives and related services. The exhibitor line-up already includes companies such as Amut, BYK, Cardinal Recycling, Clariant, Coperion, CPM Century Extrusion, Cumberland, Davis-Standard, Dover Chemical, Dynisco, Entek, Erema, Geon, Heritage Plastics, Intertek, Konica Minolta, KraussMaffei, Leistritz, Macro, Maguire, Matsui, Milliken, Netzsch, NGR, Nord- son, Omya, PerkinElmer, PTi, Reifen- hauser, Q-Lab, SI Group, Struktol, Thermo Fisher, Vecoplan, Windmoeller & Hoelscher, and hundreds more. The five focused conference
4,375 visitors attended the first Cleveland plastics expo in 2019. The limited number of remaining booths are filling up fast. To find out more about exhibiting at any of the expos, visit
https://www.ami.international/exhibitions.
theatres will feature more than 120 expert speakers over the two days, including influential representatives from leading compounders, extruders, recyclers and testing organisations. Book your free ticket for the expos and conferences, which is valid for both days of the event, HERE or visit:
https://na.compoundingworldexpo.com
Total strikes partnership with PureCycle
Total and PP recycling specialist PureCycle Tech- nologies have agreed a strategic partnership in plastic recycling that will see Total buy part of the output of PureCycle’s planned facility in the US. The two companies will also con- sider developing a new
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plant together in Europe. PureCycle will begin construction of its first plant in Ohio this year. It will produce 48,000 tonnes/yr of PP using a patented recy- cling technology licensed from Procter & Gamble. The process technology is claimed to remove colours,
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odours and other contami- nants from waste feedstock and transform it into virgin-like PP. Total described the agree- ment as part of a much wider commitment to plastics recycling. It has set a target of producing 30% recycled polymers by 2030 and
already has 15 grades of PP and PE that contain at least 50% recycled materials. It also owns French recycler Synova, which will be making 40,000 tonnes/yr of recycled PP compounds for the automotive sector by 2021. �
www.total.com �
www.purecycletech.com
www.compoundingworld.com
IMAGE: AMI
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