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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.
Recent Posts
Why the UK must not give up on paper 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
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
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
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
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
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...

