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With plastics technology a driver in modern healthcare, enhancing cost-effectiveness, safety, and hygiene while pushing ahead innovation, is the mainstay of medical plastics

Media Kit 2025

Company News

TaipeiPlas 2024 opens, highlighting unprecedented growth in Taiwan

TaipeiPlas 2024 opens, highlighting unprecedented growth in Taiwan

The Taipei International Plastics and Rubber Industry Show (TaipeiPlas) officially opened today, 24 September, at Hall 1 of the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Centre... Read More»

Composite Materials Zone to debut at TaipeiPlas 2024

Composite Materials Zone to debut at TaipeiPlas 2024

The Taipei International Plastics and Rubber Industry Show (TaipeiPlas 2024) will introduce a brand-new Composite Materials Zone as part of its expansion, with nearly 500 exhibitors across more than 1,800 booths,... Read More»

Material News

Asia turns environmental challenges into sustainable opportunities

Asia turns environmental challenges into sustainable opportunities

The global plastics waste problem has reached critical levels, with millions of tonnes generated each year, posing severe environmental and economic challenges. In Asia, the situation is particularly pressing. The World Bank's report... Read More»

Recycling: Living in a plastic world; tackling the plastic pollution problem

Recycling: Living in a plastic world; tackling the plastic pollution problem

With the growing onslaught of plastics pollution, the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) is researching ways of recycling and reusing plastics, as well as addressing major bottlenecks faced when recycling plastics. ... Read More»

Machinery News

India’s Ganesha Ecopet triples PET bottle recycling output with new machinery

India’s Ganesha Ecopet triples PET bottle recycling output with new machinery

With the increasing demand for food-safe rPET in the country, Indian PET recycling specialist Ganesha Ecopet has ramped up its PET bottle-to-bottle recycling... Read More»

SML introduces latest update to 2-m stretch wrap film line

SML introduces latest update to 2-m stretch wrap film line

At the German K2010 trade fair, Austrian extrusion machinery maker SML introduced the EcoCompact, a standardised 4 up (2,000 mm) wide stretch film line with premium components, with a compact... Read More»

SUPPLEMENTS

Unigloves and KluraLabs introduce new antimicrobial nitrile glove with 99.99% germ elimination in 60 secs

UK-headquartered Unigloves and KluraLabs have launched CrossGuard, an antimicrobial nitrile glove that eliminates 99.99% of bacteria in just 60 seconds, ideal for healthcare,... Read More»


StackTeck adds Netstal machine and Piovan dryer at PET processing lab

Canadian injection moulding solutions provider StackTeck Systems Ltd says it has made a “significant” investment in its North American PET preform testing capabilities.... Read More»


Mitsubishi Power completes power plant in Thailand

TotalEnergies recently broke ground on the Oakmulgee Dairy Farm renewable natural gas (RNG) project in Amelia Court House, Virginia, with its joint venture partner Vanguard Renewables... Read More»