Many common kitchen items contain hidden plastics or plastic-like materials, from coatings to linings to microplastic ...

What motivated the shift into the veterinary space? Topelius: Actually, we started with veterinary applications. When we founded the company, our first application areas w ...

As computers like the venerable breadbox Commodore 64 age, their plastic doesn’t just turn increasing shades of yellow and ...

Vektan (VT) Chemical—an industrial chemical manufacturer founded in Uzbekistan in 2016—has purchased a 35,000 square-foot facility on a five-acre property in Hitchcock, according to a release from the ...

NEW HAVEN — Yale University researchers have figured out how to convert plastic waste into “fuel-range chemicals” that could eventually power turbines and diesel engines and jets. Once refined, these ...

Biotech startup FutureBio, the first tenant of UC Berkeley’s Bakar Labs for Energy and Materials, hopes to produce and recycle a new kind of durable, biorenewable plastic at a lower cost than regular ...

In early 2024, the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) reported a record 323 active drug shortages, many affecting sterile injectable medications. This situation was exacerbated later ...

Mount Vernon, Ill. — Manner Polymers has opened a $54 million, 100 percent solar-powered PVC compounding plant in Mount Vernon, expanding its annual production capacity by 100 million pounds and ...

Equipment the companies will show at the October event in Germany include a filtration compounder, mechanical dryer, granulator and more. Coperion's ZSK FilCo filtration compounder. German equipment ...

The screw conveyor has an extensive history. Archimedes (ca. 212 BC) invented the first screw conveyor, and his design is still used today for irrigation and grain transfer. Screw conveyors became ...