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Highest Court in China Renders Final Judgement to Maintain Asahi Kasei’s Patent for Bat-Tery Separators The Japanese technology company Asahi Kasei has been successful in winning various litigation disputes relating to patents for lithium-ion battery separators. On November 2, 2022, The Supreme People's Court of...

Novel 3D Printing Method to Fabricate Complex Metal–Plastic Composite Structures Researchers from Japan and Singapore have developed a new 3D printing technique to create precise patterns on the external and internal surfaces of 3D plastic structures In recent years, research interest in the 3D printing of...

Borealis and YILDIRIM Announce Completion of the Sale of Borealis’ Shareholding in Rosier Sa to YILDIRIM Group’s YILFERT Holding On 26 September 2022, Borealis AG and YILDIRIM Group’s YILFERT Holding announced that they signed a binding agreement for the acquisition of Borealis’ shares in Rosier...

TotalEnergies Joins NEXTLOOPP to Accelerate the Development of Food-Grade Recycled Polymers TotalEnergies has joined NEXTLOOPP, an initiative bringing together 47 companies from the plastics value chain that aims to create food-grade recycled polymer from advanced me-chanical recycling. Launched in October 2020 by Nextek Ltd, NEXTLOOPP is...

Packaging for Beverages is Growing More Sustainable PET or glass bottle, aluminium can, beverage carton or maybe even a paper bottle, single use or multiple use – there is a huge range of choices for packaging beverages. But which is the most sustainable? The focus...

Pre- Budget Expectations for the Plastic & Polymer Industry 2023-24 Jigish Doshi, President, Plastindia Foundation Plastindia Foundation urges the government to lower the import on polymer and increase the custom duty on finished plastic products in Union Budget 2023-24 to support the domestic plastic industry Finance Minister...