Cohen specializes in recycling metal, and we don’t accept plastic goods at our recycling centers; other waste management companies are better set up to handle that material than we are. However, Cohen does handle some post-industrial plastics – think, scrap byproduct from the manufacturing proc...
A manufacturing process changes some of the chemicals in oil to plastics. The plastics are made into thousands of products and sent on to consumers who use them. When consumers are finished with their plastic bottles or toys or packages, they throw them away. Unfortunately, as we often see ...
For me the obvious question whenever I find an interesting company like Berry Plastics is are they hiring? Considering that Berry Plastics has more than 13,000 employees (most of them in a manufacturing setting), I’d have to imagine that they’re always hiring at some level. Unfortunately ...
The High Speed Sustainable Manufacturing Institute (HSSMI) Eilidh Brunton, Group Recycling Consultant, Vegware Oliver Campbell, Director Worldwide Procurement, DELL Lucy Chamberlin, Head of Programme, The RSA Great Recovery Charles Cocoual, Associate, McKinsey & Company Susan Collins, President, Container...
In 1869 when the first synthetic plastic was invented, its purpose was to replace ivory in the manufacturing of billiard balls. In fact, it was created—at least in part—to protect wild elephants. It was also cheaper than ivory. Since then, the use of th...
Our primary manufacturing partner is MCAM which manufacturers under the trade name Ertacetal® C ELS. Note: This product is typically supplied in metric sizes. Ertacetal® C ELS is a copolymer acetal whose shapes exhibit excellent electrical conductivity qualities, low moisture absorption, high ...
A manufacturing process changes some of the chemicals in oil to plastics. The plastics are made into thousands of products and sent on to consumers who use them. When consumers are finished with their plastic bottles or toys or packages, they throw them away. Unfortunately, as we often see ...
Trump is an unabashed booster of plastics — in keeping with his service to the fossil-fuel industry. The former CEO of Dow led Trump’s manufacturing council. And last July, the president visited a new Shell plastics complex outside Pittsburgh. “This facility will transform abundant natural...
My department is underway with projects in a wide variety of research fields. Shimada and I work in the same office. I learned about Shimada’s current research project at a departmental meeting where we share the technology that we are all working on. As Shimada had a desk near me at ...
A manufacturing process changes some of the chemicals in oil to plastics. The plastics are made into thousands of products and sent on to consumers who use them. When consumers are finished with their plastic bottles or toys or packages, they throw them away. Unfortunately, as we often see ...