Miscellaneous

Dow recently introduced its first post-consumer recycled (PCR)-rich resin for collation shrink film in North America, enabling companies to incorporate more post-consumer materials while maintaining the application performance.

The recycled plastic resin, which is designed specifically for retail and logistic shrink film applications, expands Dow’s circular technology portfolio to help more customers and brands achieve their sustainability goals by offering the ability to create shrink film with up to 40% PCR content.

GreenPod Labs, an agri-biotech startup, has raised ₹ 4.05 crore (€ 500K) pre-seed round in a funding round led by Indian Angel Network (IAN) with Rockstart as a co investor. The Chennai-based startup aims to utilise the freshly infused investment to strengthen its R&D foundation and commercially scale product portfolio. The funding will also be directed towards expanding the R&D and operations team.

The new Cascades Enviropac – Tacoma production site marks the start of this expansion in the United States with a first start-up in the America West. It includes a new automated line for manufacturing isothermal packaging under the northbox brand. Its state-of-the-art automation systems make operations more labour efficient. This new site will allow Cascades to increase its production capacity and expand its geographic coverage in the growing isothermal distribution market for ready-to-eat and ready-to-cook meals delivered at home, as well as fresh fish and seafood.

The new site, just a few miles away from our HQ in Telford, Shropshire, will also allow the company to invest further in eco-friendly packaging technologies.

It has added around 40,000 sq ft of manufacturing space in total.

Simon Balderson, Sirane MD, said: “This is a hugely significant expansion in the history of Sirane. We needed additional manufacturing space to enable us to continue being at the forefront of packaging innovation.

UFlex, one of India’s largest multinationals in flexible packaging materials and solutions and a global leader in polymer sciences has been riding the waves of innovation to build packaging products, applications, and solutions that will further enhance the role of packaging as a value-added responsible packaging.

The radical shift in F1s technical regulations has seen teams forced to adapt to significant change and although the 10 bespoke cars are now over a year in the making, there remain a number of issues.

With a set of restrictive aerodynamic rules, teams are further limited in the design process by the size and shape of their power units, with bodywork often pressed as close as possible to the V6 engines.

"Every year, we take a look at the power unit and the way it sits inside the chassis in order to give us the best lap time," explained Thomas in a Mercedes YouTube video.

The coalition of physicians, scientists, and public health and environmental organizations is calling on the agency to rescind its approvals for BPA in adhesives and coatings and set strict limits on its use in food-contact plastics. They warn the new safe level for BPA ‒ based on recent scientific evidence ‒ is more than 5,000 times below what FDA says is safe for most Americans.

The new polymers are based on isoidide and isomannide, which are compounds made from sugar alcohols. While both compounds have a rigid ring of atoms, the researchers explain that they vary slightly in the spatial orientation of two bonds, producing different properties in the corresponding polymers. Using computer modelling, the researchers were able to simulate the molecular chains of each material and determine how small differences can alter the physical properties of the polymer.

Dorotea Bajic and Laura Rendell-Dean who are both students in the School of Graphic Communications Management (GCM) program, won the competition and earned $5,500 for their design.

PPA is an American-based organization that aims to promote the advantages of paperboard packaging and encourages its use in packaging design and development.