LyondellBasell's renewable material for catheters, building your own IMM and more
April 25, 2023
Here are some news items of interest to plastics processors from our sister publications in Endeavor Business Media:
- LyondellBasell will supply its Circulen Renew renewable-based polymers to Wellspect HealthCare for use in urinary catheters (Chemical Processing): https://www.chemicalprocessing.com/industrynews/news/33003933/lyondell-basell-to-supply-renewablebased-polymers-for-catheters
- The hosts of the Canadian YouTube channel Action BOX — known to viewers as brothers Alan and Dave — described in one of their videos how they created a desktop injection molder called the Injekto (Machine Design): https://www.machinedesign.com/3d-printing-cad/article/21263614/how-to-build-your-own-injection-molding-machine
- Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory are working on scaling up the process of enzymatic recycling for breaking down plastics (MSW Management): https://www.mswmanagement.com/recycling/blog/53028646/enzymatic-recycling-the-next-big-thing
- Eric Utley of Protolabs discusses how to reverse engineer a part and 3D print a replacement (Machine Design): https://www.machinedesign.com/community/guest-commentary/article/21264628/proto-labs-inc-replacement-parts-are-a-3d-print-away