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Today's KNOWLEDGE Share Indian-Made Metro Trains Take Sydney by Storm! Sydney, Australia - In a landmark achievement for Indian engineering, 22 metro trains manufactured in India began service on the Sydney Metro Line! This marks the first time ever that Indian-built coaches are running in a foreign country's rapid transit system. A Testament to "Make in India".. This development is a significant boost for the Indian government's "Make in India" initiative, which aims to transform India into a global manufacturing hub. The Sydney Metro trains, built by Alstom at their facility in Sri City, Andhra Pradesh, showcase the growing capabilities of the Indian manufacturing sector. A Moment of National Pride.. This successful project is a source of immense pride for India. It demonstrates the country's ability to produce world-class railway technology that meets international standards. The Sydney Metro trains are not only functional but also fully automated

Celanese Corporation, a global chemical and specialty materials company, today confirmed a declaration of force majeure and sales control for acetic acid and vinyl acetate monomer (VAM) sold in the Western Hemisphere. This comes as a result of intensifying force majeure conditions and operational failures experienced by multiple suppliers of critical raw materials essential to Celanese’s production of these products. Production challenges caused by these raw material supply disruptions, as well as other operational issues in its Acetyl Chain U.S. gulf coast network, are being assessed and actions are being taken to offset production losses. The Acetyl Chain business is focused on meeting customers’ needs by utilizing all available network capabilities. The business has invested over the years to strategically enhance the flexibility of its integrated supply chain and will exercise that optionality to minimize customer disruptions. While under sales control, all non-contracted orders wi

The light ASSP bottles reportedly reduce emissions by 36% compared to traditional virgin PET packaging. Coca-Cola India has taken another step towards plastic circularity by introducing 100% recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) bottles in an Affordable Small Sparkling Package (ASSP) format.  The company is offering 250ml ASSP bottles in the Indian state of Odisha. The initiative, led by Coca-Cola’s bottling partner Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages, is part of the company’s broader commitment to environmental responsibility and reducing its carbon footprint.   The new ASSP bottles are designed to be light, which contributes to a 36% reduction in emissions compared to traditional virgin PET packaging.   Furthermore, the switch to rPET for the ASSP solution is said to result in an overall 66% decrease in carbon footprint when compared to the standard non-ASSP packaging made from virgin PET.  Coca-Cola India and Southwest Asia Technical Innovation and Supply Chain vice-president Enrique

European recycling technology vendors Coperion and Herbold Meckesheim design a bottle-to-bottle recycling plant for Indian company Magpet. Germany-based recycling equipment and technology vendors Coperion and Herbold Meckesheim are collaborating with India-based preform and plastic packaging manufacturer Magpet Polymer Pvt. Ltd. to build a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottle-to-bottle recycling facility. The recycling system being installed encompasses all process steps leading up to extrusion with a ZSK twin screw extruder, including pelletizing and an SSP (solid state polycondensation) reactor. The PET bottle recycling system is designed for a throughput of 5,500 kilograms (12,125 pounds) per hour and it will deliver recycled-content PET that is approved by the European Food Safety Administration (EFSA) and the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for direct contact with food. The PET pellets also will be brand owner approved, according to the companies. “Magpet has a

Plastics processor Ensinger is investing in production capacity expansion for its Composites division. Very soon, a high-performance double belt press will begin operation in Rottenburg-Ergenzingen. The new facility enables the efficient production of thermoplastics composite materials. Ensinger will use the new facility to mass-produce fibre-reinforced composites in a continuous production process, at temperatures of up to 400°C. By bringing the double belt press on stream, Ensinger is expanding its range of materials for demanding, high-temperature applications. The Composites product portfolio includes – among other things – continuous fibre-reinforced semipregs and prepregs along with organosheets, i.e. multi-layer, fully impregnated and consolidated fibre composites. The double belt press can be used for processing unidirectional (UD) materials, UD cross ply materials, laminates and sandwich components with a variety of core materials such as foam or honeycomb. Combinations of tex

Today's KNOWLEDGE Share The oriented skin will shrink only 0.1 or 0.2 %, where the transverse core will want to shrink possibly 1%. The conflict results in a compressive stress in the skin, due to the action of the core, trying to shrink so much more than the skin. Easy, right ? So the skin is in a fairly safe state of COMPRESSION (failure comes with tension). Sure ? Zooming inside the skin, we must realize that the very reason for the shrinkage to be so small in the fiber direction, is because the much higher shrinkage of the polymer is constrained by the glass fibers. So the polymer in between the fibers is desperately trying to shrink 2%, but the glass will keep the polymer under....TENSION ! So the skin is in compression yes, but the polymer, in the skin, is in tension ! source:Vito leo

INEOS Styrolution announces its decision to permanently close its styrene monomer production site in Sarnia, Ontario by June 2026. No Longer an Economically Viable Operating Asset: “This difficult business decision to permanently close our Sarnia site was made following a lengthy evaluation process and is based on the economics of the facility within a wider industry context. The long-term prospects for the Sarnia site have worsened to the point that it is no longer an economically viable operating asset,” said the Company’s CEO Steve Harrington. “The production site in Sarnia is currently shut down due to recent orders from regulatory authorities that forced us to declare force majeure. We are currently assessing what is required to restart the site—a process that could take approximately six months.” “Our decision to permanently close the Sarnia site by June 2026 is irrespective of the current situation. The economic reality is that we have made significant investments in the Sarnia