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JAZD Packaging - Informative Packaging Blog and Directory

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Informative packaging blog and directory catering to the B2B sector of buyers and vendors within packaging industry community.

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  • Why the UK must not give up on paper recycling?

    Posted on Monday January 19th, 2009 at 09:24 in Packaging, recycling, packaging news, jazd packaging, box recycling, packaging recycling, packaging recycling news, paper recycyling, united kingdom recycling

    Recent articles in the national media have highlighted an apparent build-up of recovered paper due to a decline in overseas demand. The Confederation of Paper Industries (CPI) would like to point out that this problem only arises with a small percent...

  • Bakelite

    Posted on Friday January 9th, 2009 at 09:06 in history of plastic

    The limitations of celluloid led to the next major advance, known as “phenolic” or “phenol-formaldehyde” plastics.  A chemist named Leo Hendrik Baekelund, a Belgian-born American living in New York state, was searching for an...

  • Cellulose Based Plastics: Celluloid and Rayon

    Posted on Friday January 9th, 2009 at 08:47 in history of plastic

    All Goodyear had done with vulcanization was improve the properties of a natural polymer.  The next logical step was to use a natural polymer, cellulose, as the basis for a new material. Inventors were particularly interested in developing synt...

  • Plastic Polymers

    Posted on Friday January 9th, 2009 at 08:45 in history of plastic

    Plastics are polymers - long-chain carbon-based or “organic” molecules.  These chains are made up of repeating fundamental molecular elements, or “monomers.” The term plastics covers a range of mostly synthetic or semi-s...

  • Macfarlane Disposes of Irish Plastics Operations

    Posted on Friday January 9th, 2009 at 08:42 in plastic news

    The Macfarlane Group is to sell its Macfarlane Plastics business in Ireland to Procap Holdings for £1.7 mn. Macfarlane Plastics made an operating loss of £0.1 mn on turnover of £6 mn in the 12 months to December 31, 2007. Archie Hunter, chairman o...

  • Norske Skog, Chairman Wahl Bows Out

    Posted on Friday January 9th, 2009 at 08:30 in packaging news

    OSLO, Jan 9 (Reuters) - The chairman of Norwegian papermaker Norske Skog (NSG.OL), Kim Wahl, has chosen not to seek re-election at the annual general meeting in April, the company said on Friday. Wahl has been chairman of the board since April 2007 a...

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