PRADESH PLASTICS MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION Editorial AP Plastic ANDHRA Times Vol VII
July-August 2012
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EDITORIAL BOARD
Chairman VIMLESH GUPTA Co-Chairman N. BHASKAR REDDY Members ANIL NAGDA MANOJ GOEL R.S. LOYA HON. EDITOR ARUN LAHOTI Published by
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OFFICE BEARERS:
The world is constantly in the mode of changing. Every change is for evolution. When things around us are changing, how can we be left untouched of this phenomenon. A new board has taken charge at APPMA, and so also in our editorial board. Every change should be welcomed. Change brings in freshness. AP Plastic Times is also in the process of evolution. We are trying to give it a new look, together with improvement in overall usefulness of this home journal. Ideas and suggestions are welcome for the betterment of this journal. Members / manufacturers are braving the unfavorable market conditions and facing lot of hardship due to the power supply crunch. Power is the lifeline of any industry. Our association has taken a lead and vigorously trying to represent this problem and get some relief and solution to overcome this hardship. Adding to the woes is continuous onslaught of media and various organizations to portray plastics in a wrong way, leading to many state governments contemplating fresh restrictions, ignoring the directions of the central government which were issued after much deliberations and in-depth study of the issue. We can’t be a silent spectator to this unfair treatment meted to a product for no fault of its. Before signing off, I am encouraged to share with you an extract from the writings of a renowned Packaging Sustainability Co-coordinator: “Clearly the jury on plastics and the environment is still out. However, if we — representatives of the plastics industry — continue to ignore the social-media fervor around plastics, we may find ourselves unable to shift the public discourse, which for all intents and purposes is more contingent on he who shouts the loudest than he who shouts the truth.” - Chandler Slavin ARUN LAHOTI Hon. Editor editor@appma.org.in/plasticvikas@gmail.com
President V. ANIL REDDY Sr. Vice President J. VENUGOPAL Vice President B.L. BHANDARI Hon. Secretary DAYAKAR
Contents
Treasurer NARENDER BALDAVA
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APPMA 44th AGM at Grand Hyatt, Goa
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APPMA at work : Seminar on Plastics The Emerging Scenario
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From the Desk of Chairman Taxation Committee
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News Updates
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President Writes...
Dear Members, I thank you very much for electing me and giving me a chance to serve the Association. We are in the process of changing the style of functioning of APPMA. We are trying to involve all the Office Bearers and Working Committee Members in day to day functioning of the association. We request members to support us bring these changes. As you are aware there is severe power shortage in the state of Andhra Pradesh. The entrepreneur is not being able to achieve breakeven i.e. 60% returns while running his industry. We are in the closure mode. This status quo is likely to continue till 2016. Only 40% power will be available because the State Govt. is not in a position to buy power due to lack of funds. Any entrepreneur willing to buy power at a higher price can send their requirements to APTRANSCO by giving one month advance payment about their requirement provided R & C Measures are there. I also request all members to take part in all the Plastmeets / Seminars conducted by the association. Your presence will encourage us to do many more such programs in the days to come. Wish you all the Best
V Anil Reddy President
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APPMA-44th AGM at Grand Hyatt, Goa
New Office Bearers of APPMA after elected at 44th AGM
VIMLESH GUPTA, NARENDERA BALDAWA, A. DAYAKAR, V. ANIL REDDY, J. VENUGOPAL, B.L. BHANDARI AND N. BHASKAR REDDY.
New Office Bearers and Managing Committee Members of APPMA after elected at 44th AGM
P.S. ANIL KUMAR, MALAY MEHTA, NIKHIL TIBERAWALA, M.A. ALEEM, D.K. GUPTA, PANKAJ AGARWAL, ROHIT MITTAL, SURESH SOMANI, SNJEEV GUPTA, VINOD GIRIA, NAVEEN CHAGGER, DR. NARAYAN REDDY, AND S. KAMALAKAR.
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From the Desk of Chairman of Taxation Committee I.
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Date: 01-09-2012 Clarification for the use of Way-Bills: With regards to the use of way bills for transporting the goods to the place of buyer, there is some confusion with some of dealers, that:-
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Is it mandatory to issue way bill for each of the invoice. and Is the way bill is only for transportation of goods or subsequently the audit officer can also verify the use of way bill?
This notification is in force from 10-08-2012. II. VAT Audit : It has been observed not only by us but by the department of commercial taxes also that there is inordinate delay in completing the audit and assessment authorized to the officers authorized by the Deputy Commissioners (CT), therefore to check inordinate delay the Commissioner of Commercial Taxes Department has issued certain instructions to the Deputy Commissioners (CT) to ensure that the audit is completed without delay.
Yes, it is mandatory to that every invoice generated by the dealer should have a valid way bill for transporting the goods from the place of the dealer to the place of the buyer, except for the cases where the Gate pass cum-invoice is issued. In case of Gate pass cum-invoice (Excise) also there is a specific notification issued by the Government of Andhra Pradesh, Commercial Taxes Department wherein in spite of the issue of Gate Pass cum-invoice some of the commodities specified in the notification, they shall make out way bills on Form 600 with every invoice. (Specified Commodities listed below)
Further, it is also instructed that "If any authorization is issued by Addl.CCT(Enft.)/JC(CT), Enforcement wing, O/o CCT, Hyderabad to any AC/CTO, Enforcement to conduct Audit of any dealer and if Audit in respect of such dealer is pending with any officer in the division and on requisition from the Enforcement wing the officer concerned in the field shall transfer the entire records to the enforcement wing. Even in cases where show casus notices are issued, but order are yet to be passed by the audit officers in the division, the concerned officer shall send the records to the Addl.CCT/JC(CT), Enforcement who will scrutinize the recors and issue necessary instructios whether the Audit will be taken up by the Enforcement wing or will be continued by the concerned officer in the division."
But I would like to clarify that the way bills are only for transporting the goods from the place of seller to the buyer only and the details of the same has to be furnished to the concerned authority(s) for obtaining further way bills (In case of Manual Way Bills), Because if during the vehicular checks done by the commercial tax department if they finds that the goods accompanied with the valid bill and documents but does not contains a valid way bill, they can hold the goods and release only after collecting the taxes and penalty. The assessing officer during the audit / verification cannot ask for the copies of the way bills for each and every invoice raised by the dealer.
MUKESH AGARWAL Chairman Taxation & other government Related issues Committee
Note: Notification JC(CT) Enft. Ref. No. D2/723/05, Dated 16-07-2012 - This notification is a proceedings of the Commissioner of Commercial Tax Department under sub-rule(4) of Rule 55 of APVAT Rules, 2005 Certain category of manufacturers are notified as ineligible to use gate pass cum-invoice as waybill. 1. 2. 3. 4.
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TOSHIBA BUYS INDIA'S L&T PLASTICS MACHINERY
were down [compared to last period a year ago]. But we hope to maintain or marginally improve the sales turnover in the fiscal 2012-13."
By Steve Toloken, Plastics News Posted 28 August 2012 Japan's Toshiba Machine is buying one of India's largest injection moulding machine producers, L&T Plastics Machinery, in a move that will significantly expand its presence in a market of growing importance to Japanese firms.
L&T makes injection machines for a variety of markets and enjoys strong brand recognition in India. The chief executive of L&T Plastics Machinery, P. Kailas, declined to comment on the sale. In the L&T statement, it said Toshiba was making the purchase "as part of its strategy to expand globally with a focus on developing markets."
L&T's parent company, Indian conglomerate Larsen & Toubro, announced the sale in an August 27 filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange. Terms were not disclosed.
In an email to Plastics News, Toshiba, based in Numazu, Japan, said the purchase will give it factories in Japan, China, Thailand and India.
The investment is part of a significant expansion into developing markets by Toshiba, which is opening an injection machine factory in Thailand and has a facility in China, in addition to Japan.
It said L&T Plastics Machinery, based in Chennai, India, has made about 660 injection moulding machines a year in recent years. Toshiba said it wants to complete the purchase by the end of October, and does not need approval from the Indian government.
Japanese manufacturers, including the country's plastics machinery sector, have been investing heavily outside the country in the last few years, to escape Japan's higher costs and build business in emerging markets like India.
Measured by sales, L&T's business would at present seem to be only a relatively small addition to Toshiba, which had global sales $592.7m (•473.1m) in its moulding machinery unit in the year ending March 31, 2011, the last period figures are available on the company's website.
For example, by some estimates, Japanese car makers have more than 50% of India's automobile market, and that's expected to attract more Japanese component suppliers. Larsen & Toubro, a major Indian conglomerate with $12.8bn (•10.2bn) in total sales, said it is selling the plastics machinery business as part of its "strategic road-map to exit non-core businesses and rationalize its portfolio."
It reported income of $16.1m (•12.8m) in its moulding machinery division in that period. The moulding machinery business includes plastic injection and extrusion machines, along with die-casting machines.
It said the machinery unit had sales of 206 crore (2.06bn rupees or •29m) with profit after tax of 11 crore (110m rupees or •2m) in the fiscal year that ended in March.
In 2010, Toshiba Machine adopted a new business plan that it said would "launch new sales and service bases primarily in the Asian markets" and seek to develop more systems integration, relying less on only selling machines.
"We are a fairly large technology, engineering, construction and manufacturing company, whereas, plastic is a much smaller business in our wide portfolio," said S. Raghavan, a senior vice president with Larsen & Toubro and head of the company's machinery and industrial products unit, which includes the plastics business.
"Emerging economies in Southeast Asia, India and South America are steadily gaining prominence, necessitating a major shift from the conventional business models," Toshiba said.
"Moreover, even the smaller players or companies [in the injection machine market] are manufacturing electric injection moulding machinery, whereas [L&T] is focusing on hydraulic based injection moulding machinery," he said in a telephone interview from Chennai.
L&T's plastics machinery unit was formed in 2000 as a joint venture with Germany's Demag Ergotech, but L&T bought out the German partner in 2009. L&T was also one of the initiators of the Indian government's 2009 decision to enact steep anti-dumping penalties against some Chinese-made injection moulding machines.
Asked about L&T's recent results, Raghavan replied: "The first quarter of the current fiscal [year] was not good, sales 12
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STUDENTS BUILD WORLD'S FIRST 3DPRINTED RACECAR
These processes include four based on Vacurema Prime technology - LuxPET, Jayplas, PolyQuest and CIER; five based on Starlinger IV+ technology - namely the Preformia, STF, MPTS, PET to PET and Eco Plastic systems; and the recycling process PETUK SSP. In all cases, these technologies grind waste plastics into small flakes, which are decontaminated and then reprocessed into plastics for use in food packaging.
By European Plastics News Posted 29 August 2012 Students from Belgian technical university, Group T, have created the first race car built almost entirely from 3D-printed components. The electric-motored Areion car, which has been tested on the Hockenheim race circuit in Germany, was built using parts printed with Materialise's Mammoth stereolithography machines.
EFSA has declared these to be safe where the resulting plastic is not made up of more than 5% PET collected from non-food consumer products "and these processes are operated under well-defined conditions," it said.
Working with engineers from Materialise, Formula Group T, went from initial shell design to production in just three weeks. The stereolithogrphic process allowed the students to design in unique properties, including a "shark's fin" finish intended to reduce drag and increase thrust.
The agency is continuing to assess other plastics recycling practices and will insist that after its work is done, "recycled plastics used in food packaging, food containers and other food contact materials should only be obtained from processes which have been assessed for safety by EFSA and authorised by risk managers."
The side pods were designed and printed with complex cooling channels to optimize cooling and to create a cyclone effect that removes water and dirt from the air before it enters the engine compartment.
COCA-COLA OPENS UK RECYCLING JOINT VENTURE
The Formula Group T team has completed two races, in Hockenheim, Germany and Silverstone, the UK. It will shortly be taking on a third race, in Italy. You can follow the team's progress at http://www.formulagroupt.be
By Hamish Champ Posted 11 May 2012 UK government minister Lord Taylor officially opened the £15m (•11.6m) UK Continuum Recycling plant yesterday, declaring the joint venture between Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) and ECO Plastics as "an innovative partnership".
GUMSAVER TOOTHBRUSH TAKES SHAPE European Plastics News staff Posted 16 January 2012 Gumsaver is a new design concept in oral health: a toothbrush which removes bacteria, food debris and plaque by brushing the tooth below the gum line. This helps prevent gum infection and tooth decay.
The plant, said to be the world's largest and most sophisticated plastics recycling facility, will be capable of processing 150,000 tonnes of mixed plastics a year, including 40,000 tonnes of bottle-grade rPET. Simon Baldry, managing director of Coca-Cola Enterprises, said the new plant would ensure that his company fulfills its commitment to incorporate 25% of recycled PET in all its plastic drinks bottles by the end of this year.
UK design group Dolton & Dex, which devised the concept, said the product has two sets of moulded microfilaments, angled for optimum brushing efficiency, gentleness and comfort.
"Our investment in Continuum Recycling shows that we are serious about setting the industry standard for sustainable packaging," he added.
Dolton & Dex carried out the research and development cycle for its client, taking in initial concept design and injection moulding tool design through to managing volume manufacture.
ECO Plastics chairman Peter Gansted said the joint venture showed what was possible "with commitment and vision", and he applauded CCE's foresight to partner the company for the next 10 years and for setting what he called a "benchmark for sustainability".
EFSA APPROVES FOOD CONTACT PET RECYCLING By Keith Nuthall Posted 23 August 2012 The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has declared safe the use of recycled plastics in food contact technology where they are sourced from ten recycling processes, the first time it has released such a formal opinion.
But Gansted also warned that while the UK consumer had embraced the concept of recycling, more was needed to be done to get the message across about what was actually recyclable, as well as creating the right environment for material collection. "We must develop the infrastructure to cope and improve 13
ANDHRA PRADESH PLASTICS MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION the quality of the material to be reprocessed," he said. Gansted argued that too much waste plastic was still being exported or going to landfill every year. "We are exporting and landfilling jobs when we should be creating value and wealth in the UK," he added.
"We expect M&A activity to increase significantly in 2012, with large Indian companies seeking foreign partners and certain large Indian packaging companies looking for cheap acquisitions in Europe, the Middle East and the US," says the report.
Jonathan Short, ECO Plastics' managing director, said the plant's opening was "a great day for the company and for UK recycling generally. It demonstrates the huge potential of working with global leaders like CCE, as well as the strategic value of long-term partnerships.
INDORAMA SALES TOTAL $1.7BN IN Q2 European Plastics News staff Posted 16 August 2012 Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL), has posted sales of $1.8bn and Ebitda of $151m for the second quarter of the year, which the company claimed represented a "strong result under the current economic conditions".
"Together they have provided us with the confidence to invest in the next-generation technology which will be crucial to our industry's future development," he added.
CEO Aloke Lohia said in a statement: "The last 12 months have witnessed extreme volatility that closely shadows what we experienced in the second half of 2008. There was a considerable squeeze in inventory across the industry then, which led to a total collapse of commodity prices, and we have seen it happen again in Q4/2011 and yet again in Q2/ 2012. This time, though, we are also experiencing a slowdown in growth in Asia, particularly China and India."
Plastic flake produced at the Continuum plant will be used to make tens of thousands of new Coca-Cola drinks bottles, some of which could find their way back onto retailers' shelves, after being reprocessed, within six weeks of first being used. The joint venture claims the 10-year programme will save around 33,500 tonnes of CO2 annually, while the partnership led to the creation of 30 new skilled jobs for the local area.
The company said operation excellence in the US and a capacity addition in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, as well as the addition of the Oxide and Glycol business in North America, will offset weak PTA margins in Asia, which will remain low throughout 2012.
INDIA'S PLASTICS INDUSTRY TO REACH $30BN BY 2015 European Plastics news staff Posted 1 June 2012 4:00 am GMT INDUSTRY The plastics industry in India is expected to grow from the current value of $25bn (•19bn) to $30bn (•22.8bn) by 2015, according to a new report from Catalyst Corporate Finance.
The year's results will also be boosted by the acquisition of the recycled PET and fibre manufacturing businesses Wellmann International, based in Ireland, it added.
ZAHORANSKY EXPANDS IN GERMANY AND INDIA
India currently consumes 12.5 million tonnes of plastics material per annum and is expected to become the third largest consumer of polymers in the world after the US (39 million tpa) and China (37.5 million tpa) by the end of this year.
European Plastics News staff Posted 7 August 2012 Germany-based Zahoransky group is expanding its mould making plant in Vogtland-Saxony and is building a 2,500m² facility in India.
"Already one of the fastest growing markets with a growth rate of around 14%, the lower level of plastics consumption of 5kg per capita compared to the world average of 26kg per capita means the potential for growth is very high," says the report.
In Germany, the company is investing •2.5m in a new building, which will include a 1,000m² manufacturing area to make packaging tools, for example the TIM (Total Integrated Manufacturing) In-Mold Assembly System. The expansion is scheduled for completion by the end of the year.
Despite a slowdown over the last two years because of the recession, the rupee-dollar exchange rate has now stabilised and consumer sectors are witnessing higher demand.
Zahoransky is also building a new plant in India, with construction work due to start in 2013. The facility will supply the local market with injection moulds and automation solutions.
The report notes several important M&A deals in recent months, including Gita Holdings acquiring the assets of Vinyl Italia.
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FAURECIA OPENS NEW INDIAN R&D CENTRE
next five years, with proposals to expand micro-irrigation coverage to over 10 million hectares by the end of 2017 - a development that will create demand for a range of materials, especially polyethylene.
European Plastics News staff Posted 22 June 2012 Automotive Tier 1 supplier Faurecia has opened a major R&D centre in Pune, India, which will cater for three of its four business groups: interior systems, automotive seating and automotive exteriors.
AUTOMOTIVE GIANTS TURN TO BIOPLASTICS WORLDWIDE By Kitty So Posted 31 July 2012 Although attracted initially by environmental benefits, car makers and their suppliers are also asking what added functionality they can get from non-compostable, bio-based materials. One advantage is of course lighter, more costeffective vehicles. A rule-of-thumb is that 5% less weight means average fuel savings of 3%, according to industry association Plastics Europe.
The centre will employ 800 automotive engineers, said Faurecia, based in Nanterre, France. Christophe Schmitt, executive vice president of Faurecia Interior Systems, said: "Faurecia is growing faster than the automotive market, enjoys solid growth potential, benefits from a diverse regional and customer mix and is continuously improving its cost structure. Our new TechCenter in India is an extension of our commitment to the Indian consumers and our growing customer base in the country. Our aim is to develop high quality, high safety and high comfort products at this centre."
However, weight advantages are not assured. Some 'classic' bioplastics such as polylactic acid (PLA) have a higher density than their petroleum-based counterparts, the Belgium-based European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA) told European Plastics News.
Faurecia has another R&D centre in India, which is located in Bangalore and serves its emissions control technologies business. The group also has nine production facilities covering the main Indian automotive production base in Pune, Manesar (Delhi), Chennai, Bangalore and Sanand (Gujarat). It employs more than 1,600 people in the country.
ACEA said soy-based seat foams and upholstery can also be heavier. Ford and Fiat say soy-based seats in their vehicles weigh as much as if made with traditional materials. Natural fibre-reinforced plastic, on the other hand, offers 5% to 15% weight saving, depending on what it replaces.
Faurecia's Indian customer base includes Ford, Hyundai, Mahindra, Maruti-Suzuki, Tata, Toyota and Volkswagen.
Bioplastics are not as affected by oil price volatility as petroleum-based materials, an advantage over traditional plastics. "The importance [of bioplastics] will certainly continuously grow with crude oil shortage," said an ACEA spokesperson.
PLASTICS ARE HELPING INDIA TO EXPAND ITS AGRICULTURE By PRW Posted 17 July 2012 India's use of plastics is increasingly important to the country's farmers, according to the latest report by petrochemicals specialist GlobalData.
Still, environmental benefits remain important. "Plastics, regardless of the raw material used, are lightweight and costefficient materials," said Thomas Bauwens, a spokesman for Plastics Europe. "If, on top of this, bioplastics can further reduce the environmental burden...then car manufacturers will be interested in choosing bioplastics."
Its latest study examines the subcontinent's booming polymers industry, highlighting how it is not only important in growing the country's economy, but how it can also help tackle India's food concerns.
And manufacturers certainly interested are interested. Reduced dependence on volatile energy markets is one of the benefits of bioplastics, said John Viera, Ford Motor Company's director of sustainable business strategies.
The use of plastics in agriculture and horticulture is growing in popularity across India. In particular, micro-irrigation - the strategic placement of small devices used to deliver water to specific locations - which can reduce water requirements by up to 70%.
Ford's use of soy-foam seat cushions has allowed its supply chain to reduce petroleum usage in production by more than 2,300 tonnes annually while lowering carbon dioxide emissions by some 9,000 tonnes, said Viera.
The Indian government's Micro-Irrigation Scheme (MIS), launched in 2005, has brought 1.8 million hectares into cultivation at an approximate cost of £290m (•369.6m).
Where Ford cannot save weight through soy-based seats, it uses honeycomb-structured traditional plastics for a 20% weight reduction, which leads to better fuel economy and reduced carbon emissions. These foam seat backs and cushions with up to 24% renewable material appear in all
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ecofriendly profile of our products, assuring same or better performances, possibly at same costs." The company has used castor oil-derived polyamides and soya-derived polyurethanes to replace their crude-oil-derived equivalents in more than one million vehicles and plans to continue this. For context, Fiat Group Automobiles shipped nearly 2.2 million vehicles world-wide in 2011.
The company is also researching natural fibres, such as rice hulls and coconut reinforcement, for moulded plastic parts. These would reduce petroleum use in manufacturing and make parts lighter and more natural-looking as the long fibres are visible in the plastic.
Fiat cars for Brazil contain polyurethane seat foams with about 5% soy polyol. It is still seeking improvements; for example, the foam seats cannot contain more than 5% biobased material or they lose performance in elasticity.
"The team is researching formulations using up to 30% natural fibres, which would typically replace talc or glass in traditional automotive plastic composite formulations," Viera said. He hailed the 2010 Ford Flex for the first ever application of wheat straw-reinforced plastic, used for third-row interior storage bins, which offers annual savings of some 9 tonnes in petroleum.
Fiat is also looking to increase the amount of bio-fillers it uses to reinforce some vehicles' plastics and elastomers. In 2011, its use of DuPont's castor oil-based Zytel RS polyamide 1010 in some fuel lines won the Automotive Innovation award in the environmental category from the United States and Europe-based Society of Plastics Engineers.
Bioplastics feature in some Ford doors. A 50:50 polyethylene composite with fibre from kenaf, a tropical plant, is replacing oil-based materials for door bolsters in the new Escape. Lignotock - 15% phenol formaldehyde thermoset and 85% wood fibre - provides lighter, better sound-deadening than conventional glass-reinforced thermoplastics.
DuPont's technology and strategic partnerships to create novel methods of manufacturing high-performance materials from renewable resources have featured big name car manufacturers in recent years.
Carbon neutrality is achieved over the cycle from raw material to end-of-use, bioplastic car part. Living plants remove CO2 from air while expired parts are recycled in a thermal process re-releasing that CO2.
The company's Zytel RS line of bioplastics is a renewably sourced long chain of nylon products, between 60% and 100% bio-material, that can be adapted for temperature resistance. It also provides the Sorona EP line of 20-37% starch-based polymer resins as well as the Hytrel RS line of 20% and 60% non-food biomass based thermoplastic polyester elastomers. Toyota in Japan launched the Prius 'A' alpha car featuring Dupont's Sorona EP in the instrumentpanel air-conditioning system outlet.
Toyota claims to have been the first to use sugar cane-based PET in vehicle liners and other interior surfaces. In North America, it combines PLA derived from sweet potato, corn, and sugar beet with other polymers.
Japan-based Mazda claims two car industry firsts: a plantderived content above 80%, for interior fittings in its Premacy Hydrogen RE Hybrid car; and a 100% plant-derived biofabric for seat covers.
Processing methods for bioplastic depend on the car part. For upholstery material on door and luggage area trims, PLA is mixed with PET. For injection moulded parts such as scuff plates and interior trims, finely ground PLA is dispersed in polypropylene (PP).
US-based Johnson Controls will meanwhile provide Germany's BMW with door panels combining wood fibres and plastics making them 20% lighter than with traditional materials. These will feature in the new BMW 3 Series of cars, making them more fuel efficient.
Many Toyota vehicles have soy-based seat cushions, including the Prius, Corolla, Matrix, RAV4, and Lexus RX 350. The Lexus HS 250 is packed with bio-based parts, including the luggage trim upholstery, cowl side trim, seat cushions, door scuff plate and tool box area. Toyota aims to have 20% of all plastic components in its vehicles made of bioplastics by 2015.
Daimler, for the same reasons, mixes kenaf, flax, and sisal in plastics for its door linings. Mercedes-Benz's Biome concept car is envisaged as a vehicle that would be 'grown in a lab' from organic biofibres, stronger than steel but lighter than metal and compostable at the end of its life.
Toyota Motor Group, another car giant, has reduced CO2 emissions from parts manufacturing by 20% thanks to bioplastics, said its subsidiary Toyota Canada.
Italian car maker Fiat is also becoming a convert. A spokesperson for Centro Ricerche Fiat, its research company, said: "Use of bioplastics allows us to increase the 16
Bioplastics have not yet been used to make external car components. Price is one obstacle, because such external parts cannot yet be manufactured on the same scale as interior components, said John Williams, head of materials for energy and industry at the UK's non-profit National NonFood Crops Centre (NNFCC).
ANDHRA PRADESH PLASTICS MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION "[Also] you have the requirements of strength that you don't necessarily have with bioplastics," said Frederic Scheer, CEO and chairman of Cereplast, a US and European based provider of starch-based resin pellets that can be processed in existing equipment to create bonding agents in car manufacturing.
committee (Locog) has set the objective of 70% of the waste produced by the events should go for recycling, re-use or composting. Novamont operates in the UK, Germany, France, Benelux, Scandinavia, Denmark, US, China,Japan, Australia and New Zealand.
Williams expects more durable bioplastics soon, though. "I've seen mainstream developments not yet launched where these things can be, ultimately, the outside panel," he said.
NEW DELHI: The Reserve Bank has proposed to conduct field trials of Rs 10 polymer banknotes in five cities including Shimla and Cochin, Minister of State for Finance Namo Narain Meena today said.
Williams also expects cost disparities between renewable and traditional plastics to decrease, spurred by continued development and, possibly, rising oil prices.
"It has been decided by the Government of India andReserve Bank of India to introduce Rs 10 notes in polymer /plastics on a field trial basis," Meena said in a written reply to Rajya Sabha.
Thomas Bauwens at Plastics Europe predicts the market for fuel-efficient, lighter vehicles in general will grow as European car manufacturing recovers.
He said the RBI has informed that field trial is proposed to be conducted at five places -- Jaipur, Shimla, Bhubaneshwar Mysore and Cochin, keeping in view of "the varied geographical locations and climatic conditions."
"With the present focus of the European automotive industry on 'green vehicles' the need for plastic materials in cars will probably grow," he added. Cereplast likewise sees Europe as a growth market. Some 80% of its sales are in European continental markets where it continues to expand, with a new headquarters in Germany and a manufacturing plant in Italy purchased last year.
The expenditure proposed to be incurred on the field trial would be finalised as per the guidelines, he added.
RBI TO CONDUCT FIELD TRIALS OF RS 10 POLYMER NOTES IN FIVE CITIES
"We look at Europe as one of our top priorities for 2012, 2013, and going beyond," said Cereplast's Scheer. "Bioplastics will become so sophisticated that they will basically substitute plastics as we see it today."
Polymer notes have relatively longer life compared to the prevailing paper banknotes and may help in checking counterfeiting.
NOVAMONT PACKAGES OLYMPICS FARE
Polymer notes were first introduced in Australia to safeguard against counterfeiting of currency.
By Anthony Clark Posted 27 July 2012 McDonald's, which will be running the world's largest fast food outlet at the Olympic park in Londont, the UK, will be using Novamont's Mater-Bi bioplastic for its cups, cutlery, straws, lids and containers.
Besides Australia, other countries which have introduced plastic notes include New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Romania, Bermuda, Brunei and Vietnam.
"Many McDonald's items were already compliant with the EN13432 compostability standards but did not have the certification," said the company's environment consultant Helen McFarlane.
PUNE: Plasto 2012, the 6th National techno-polymer exhibition and seminar by theAssociation for Promotion of Plastics will be organised in the city from December 20 to 23.
"We obtained this by working alongside our suppliers for almost two years, with considerable investment in research and development."
Warren Wilder, president Polymers and cracker BusinessReliance lndustries Ltd, launched thePlasto 2012 in Pune. Organisers said that this year, the exhibition will have international participation. "Companies from Japan, China and Taiwan have already registered to participate in the exhibition. More than 250 companies will display their products and around 50,000 visitors from across India are expected to visit the exhibition," said one of the organisers.
PUNE TO HOST NATIONAL PLASTIC EXHIBITION
Mater-Bi will compost with anaerobic digestion, according to Italy's Novamont, helping make the expected 3,300 tonnes of food and food-related packaging waste that the games will generate easier to handle than if conventional materials are used. London Olympic and Paralympic Games organising
A statement issued in this regard said that the plastic industry expected to grow considerably in the next two years. Plastic 17
ANDHRA PRADESH PLASTICS MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION component consumption per head is expected to reach 20 kg from the 8 kg per head at present. Besides this, use of plastic components in auto industry, agriculture and other industries is also expected to increase. Plastic component industry will become larger than auto component industry by year 2020, the statement said. It added that commercial vehicles will use 7 to 8 times more plastic than the current usage , while there is also momentum at the government level to support this industry. The statement said that the government has given permission to establish 'Plastic Parks' in various states.
PAPER MILL COLONY UTILISES WASTE MATERIAL FOR MAINTENANCE OF PARK LUCKNOW: While the entire municipal administration with its army of workers has virtually failed to manage city's municipal wastes, people of Paper Mill Colony have come together to solve the problem for themselves. Instead of discarding the household waste on streets, the residents of this colony dump thegarbage in a pit where it is converted into a bio-compost. "We do not waste, waste materials," said Prabha Chaturvedi, a resident of the Paper Mill Colony, the brain behind this venture. Since past 18 years, she ensures that the waste generated in the locality's house do not make way to the street, but is dumped in the couple of pits, dug up in a park. She keeps two dust-bins, one for degradable and other for non-degradable waste. Degradable waste mainly consists of kitchen waste, which is dumped into the pits. Nondegradable waste such as plastics, metals and glass are given to rag-pickers. Like Prabha Chaturvedi, there are 70 members in the locality who also do not dispose off the garbage on the streets. Along with the household wastes, the garbage of the park such as twigs and dry leaves are dumped in the pits and is mixed with cow dung. The garbage is converted into manure and is used for plants. Every month, the park produces one quintal of compost and is sold for Rs 25 per five kilograms. "The maintenance of the park costs Rs 4,000 per month and is met by the money which we earn after selling the manure. People from distant places come to purchase this manure," said Pradeep Sinha, another resident. Recalling the problems faced by them during the initial years, Malika Sahay, a housewife, said, "Earlier people were not ready to listen to them and used to shut doors on their face. In many colonies, people mix all kind of waste material and throw it on the streets. The waste gets spilled all over the city and Lucknow Municipal Corporation is unable to clean it. But, if we properly decompose it, we can create a clean and healthy environment." The residents of Paper Mill Colony have set an example for others to follow. "Some people in other localities like
Indiranagar dump their garbage in the pit which they have dug up in their garden," said Ranvijay Singh, a lecturer.
DEADLY FIRE AT IRAN'S BIGGEST PETROCHEMICAL PLANT TEHRAN: A fire that broke out at Iran's biggestpetrochemical plant killed at least one person and injured 15 others before it was put out, Iranian media reported on Saturday. The blaze at the Bandar Imam petrochemical complex, in the southwestern city of Mahshahr, occurred on Friday and was caused by a gas leak in a feeding line, according to the Shananews agency belonging to Iran's oil ministry. "Unfortunately in this accident, one person was killed," it quoted Qodratollah Nasiri, the security head of Iran's National Petrochemical Co, as saying. The fire was now extinguished, Nasiri was quoted as saying. "The processing units at the plant were not damaged... but some of the units are offline." The plant reportedly produced more than four million tonnes of products last year, including polymers, benzenes, propane gas, butane and fuel oil.
LG BUILDS WORKING FLEXIBLE CABLE BATTERY "LG Chem ... has devised a cable-type lithium-ion battery that's just a few millimeters in diameter, and is flexible enough to be tied in knots, worn as a bracelet, or woven into textiles. The underlying chemistry of the cable-type battery is the same as the lithium-ion battery in your smartphone or laptop - there's an anode, a lithium cobalt oxide (LCO) cathode, an electrolyte - but instead of being laminated together in layers, they're twisted into a hollow, flexible, spring-like helix. flexible batteries have been created before - but they've all just standard, flat, laminated batteries made from sub-optimum materials, such as polymers. As such, as they have very low energy density, and they're only bendy in the same way that a thin sheet of plastic is bendy. LG Chem's cable-type batteries have the same voltage and energy density as your smartphone battery - but they're thin and highly flexible to boot. LG Chem has already powered an iPod Shuffle for 10 hours using a knotted 25cm length of cable-type battery."Original paper (Extreme Tech claims it is paywalled, but it looks like it's not). The hollow core seems to be the key: "Moreover, a nonhollow anode proved to have serious problems with penetration of the electrolyte into the essential cell components such as the separator and active materials ... However, we were able to overcome these drawbacks by devising a unique architecture comprising a skeleton frame surrounding an empty space, that is, a hollow-spiral anode with a multi-helix structure This design enables easy wetting of the battery components with the electrolyte and the hollow space allows the device to compensate for any external 18 Continued on Page 23
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ANDHRA PRADESH PLASTICS MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION mechanical distortion while maintaining its structural integrity. In addition, this helical architecture possibly enables the battery to be more flexible, owing to its similarity to a springlike structure."
implement existing CEN standard 14343 on post-consumer plastics recycling. By standardising the process and focusing on traceability, plastics recycling rates will increase, says the organisation.
ENGEL AND PLASTISUD TEAM UP TO OFFER CAP SYSTEMS IN CHINA
The certification will also improve REACH and food contact compliance and increase transparency, it adds.
European Plastics News staff Posted 4 April 2012 A joint venture between Engel, the Austrian injection moulding machine company, and Plastisud, the French mould maker, will offer turnkey systems for the production of sealing caps for water and soft drinks containers in China.
Antonio Furfari, from European Plastics Converters, one of the scheme's partners, says the aim was to have a wellestablished and transparent plastics recycling industry. "Recyclers need to show the customers - the converters and suppliers - that they are operating correctly," he told European Plastics News.
The partners have named their JV Green Cap, which will be based at Engel's facility in Shanghai.
Furfari says EuCertPlast will monitor the entire recycling process, from entry of waste material to final recycled product, and will check the manufacturer has the necessary permits for stages such as stock management, recycling process and recycling output.
Walter J. Jungwirth, director of new business development at Engel, said: "The Chinese market is very demanding. Chinese customers request nothing but the best. "Green Cap is the best way for us to address this trend. We are offering maximum output and quality while optimising the cost structure for our customers."
Next year, EuCertPlast will combine with Germany's Blue Angel scheme, a certification for products that are environmentally friendly. Products certified by EuCertPlast across Europe could potentially show the Blue Angel label, said Furfari.
Jean-Luc Giraud, CEO of Plastisud, said: "By bringing two family owned market leaders together, we want to amalgamate a unique wealth of experience in plastic closure moulds and highly efficient injection moulding machines to provide the Chinese market with a simple but very efficient plastic cap solution."
The EuCertPlast is currently audited by Germany-based Cyclos but the organisation are looking to accredit more auditors across the EU, "at least one per country", he added. The partners include the European Plastics Recyclers (EuPR), European Plastics Converters (EuPC), cyclos, The European Plastics Recycling Organisation (EPRO), Recovinyl, ITW Group and Scoeller Arca Systems.
At the Chinaplas 2012 trade fair on 18-21 April in Shanghai, Green Cap will have a stand on which an all-electric Engel e-cap 3440/420 injection moulding machine with a 96-cavity mould made by Plastisud will make nearly 130,000 sealing caps per hour, reaching a cycle time faster than 2.8 seconds.
EuPR says the European plastics recycling industry currently comprising 1,500 companies which recycle more than 4.5m tonnes or waste per annum.
Green Cap will offer systems with 32 to 96 cavities moulds as standard, along with machine clamping force of 200 to 420 tonnes. Customers can also request 500 tonne machines.
According to a paper released by EuPR in 2010, 24.9m tonnes of plastics used by consumers ended up as postconsumer waste in 2008. Some 51.3% of this waste was recovered, with 5.3m tonnes recycled as material and feedstock and 7.5m tonnes recovered as energy.
The partners said that Green Cap's system solutions save energy and cooling water. Other features of the systems include robust and hard-wearing components, high process reliability and maximum availability.
COKE TO BE SOLD IN BIODEGRADABLE PLASTIC BAGS IN MANY COUNTRIES
NEW EU STANDARD FOR PLASTICS RECYCLING
The iconic Coca-Cola bottle, which is recognisable around the world and has barely changed since it first hit shelves in 1894, will now have a new look.
By Charlotte Eyre Posted 17 July 2012 A new European wide standard for recycling post-consumer plastics should increase recycling rates across the region, according to the scheme's partners. The new certification and audit scheme - EuCertPlast - will
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ANDHRA PRADESH PLASTICS MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION The bags - which originated in El Salvador and spread across South America - are billed as a low-cost, environmentally friendly alternative to cans and bottles, the Daily Mail reported.
Previous research has shown that PHB is an attractive polymer for use as a microcapsule for effective drug delivery in cancer therapy and also as medical implants, due to its biodegradability and non-toxic properties. Improved quality of PHB combined with low production costs would enable it to be used more widely.
Coca-Cola said that the plastic bags replicate the look of the classic bottle shape, but they are unlikely to impress aficionados, many who believe the only way to sample the drink is out of a cold glass bottle.
The disposal of used plastics - which are largely nonbiodegradable - is a major environmental issue. Plastic waste on UK beaches has been steadily increasing over the past two decades and now accounts for about 60% of marine debris. "The use of biodegradable plastics such as PHB is encouraged to help reduce environmental contamination. Unfortunately the cost of glucose as a starting material has seriously hampered the commercialization ofbioplastics," said Dr Iza Radecka who is leading the research. "Using waste cooking oil is a double benefit for the environment as it enables the production of bioplastics but also reduces environmental contamination caused by disposal of waste oil."
For years, people in South American countries have had their bottles of Coca-Cola poured into plastic bags so that they do not have to pay a deposit on the returnable glass bottles. Coca-Cola noticed this trend, and decided to make their own - bottle shaped, and branded - bags. The drinks maker says "it delivers the full customer experience and we recover our famous branding" - and they will now sell it all around the world.
The next challenge for the group is to do appropriate scaleup experiments, to enable the manufacture of bioplastics on an industrial level
Coca-Cola has come under pressure in recent years to produce more eco-friendly packaging for their drinks.
RESEARCHERS DEVELOP BIOPLASTICS MADE FROM WASTE COOKING OIL FOR MEDICAL APPLICATIONS
PLASTICS POSE 'DOOMSDAY' THREAT When we go shopping, our purchases-food, clothes and other necessities-are usually put in plastic bags. There would be no problem if these were biodegradable bags because in time they would fossilize under the soil. But nonbiodegradable materials like plastics should be recycled.
SpecialChem 'Bioplastics' that are naturally synthesized by microbes could be made commercially viable by using waste cooking oil as a starting material. This would reduce environmental contamination and also give high-quality plastics suitable for medical implants, according to scientists presenting their work at the Society for General Microbiology's Autumn Conference at the University of Warwick.
When there is heavy rainfall, plastic bags are washed away by the streaming, onrushing water into uncovered manholes and canals. They rapidly accumulate and get stuck on waterways or spillways. When this happens, the rainwater stops flowing. If the rain continues, the clogged-up water start rising until the plastic bags give way, causing flash floods which kill people and destroy properties while exacting a heavy toll on the environment.
The Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) family of polyesters is synthesized by a wide variety of bacteria as an energy source when their carbon supply is plentiful. Poly 3-hydroxybutyrate (PHB) is the most commonly produced polymer in the PHA family. Currently, growing bacteria in large fermenters to produce high quantities of this bioplastic is expensive because glucose is used as a starting material.
Realizing the awesome destruction caused by the indiscriminate disposal of plastic trash, one lawmaker has proposed a law that, if approved and strictly enforced, is expected to eventually solve this problem about plastic trash.
Work by a research team at the University of Wolverhampton suggests that using waste cooking oil as a starting material reduces production costs of the plastic. "Our bioplasticproducing bacterium, Ralstonia eutropha H16, grew much better in oil over 48 hours and consequently produced three times more PHB than when it was grown in glucose," explained Victor Irorere who carried out the research. "Electrospinning experiments, performed in collaboration with researchers from the University of Birmingham, showed that nanofibers of the plastic produced from oils were also less crystalline, which means the plastic is more suited to medical applications."
In the United States today, the use of plastic bags for carrying grocery items, food or nonfood, is strictly prohibited. Any sociopath caught violating this prohibition is fined. The shoppers now bring their own shopping bags. One solution that our government is now undertaking is the conversion of nonbiodegradable plastics into plastic products such as pails, basins, chairs, drums, washbowls, etc.
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Street urchins go to dumps searching for plastics and other trash items that they could sell. They gather them, clean them, and sell them to recycling plants where recyclable
ANDHRA PRADESH PLASTICS MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION garbage is bought by the kilo. To others, the money that the children make may not be much, but for children themselves it solves their family's next meal.
sizes. Plastic Logic's displays are super-thin, ultra-light, robust and extremely low power. Furthermore, the flexible display technology is shatterproof and daylight readable.
These young street boys and girls may be untidy, uneducated, uncared for and perhaps orphans, but I consider them unbemedalled "street heroes," more dignified than corrupt government officials and greedy businessmen because these children make their earnings through honest toil and labor.
In addition to the insights into transistor development and new technologies currently being developed based on the same OTFT technology, the presentation will also cover challenges associated with scaling a transistor manufacturing process from a lab to a factory. Plastic Logic opened the world's first plastic electronics factory in Dresden, Germany in 2008 and will elaborate on some of the process learning and development that was involved.
The garbage that these street urchins pick up and sell every day is their greatest contribution to our environmental cleanup drive, and to our efforts to tame global pollution.
Plastic Logic's flexible display technology enables a wide range of applications for both smaller and larger plastic display solutions, including paper replacement, e-readers and companion products to smartphones. The company is also pursuing opportunities for the integration of its technology in non-imaging applications.
These street children likewise contribute greatly in preventing the hole in our planet ozonosphere from getting wider in diameter. This ozone, which envelops our planet earth, absorbs and shields us from the heat of the sun's ultraviolet radiation. If we remain complacent and unconcerned, the global warming that the whole world is now experiencing will worsen. And if this is allowed to continue, the land areas of countries that are just a few feet above sea level would be submerged by the meltdown of gigantic and towering polar icebergs. The oceans would dramatically rise and swell, creating giant tidal waves and rampaging tsunamis that might sweep our six continents into watery extinction!
About Plastic Logic Since Plastic Logic was founded by researchers from the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University, the company has been at the forefront of research and investment into plastic electronics. The company has achieved many technological firsts, including the production of high-quality colour rugged plastic displays, animation and yields comparable to the LCD industry on plastic electronic production.
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Plastic Logic is backed by major investors including Oak Investment Partners and Rusnano.
PLASTIC LOGIC PRESENTS NEW ADVANCES IN FLEXIBLE AND PRINTED ELECTRONICS
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Plastic Logic, the recognised leader in the field of plastic electronics, will be presenting at the 2012 International Conference on Flexible and Printed Electronics (ICFPE2012) in Japan on its breakthrough flexible display technology for applications such as e-readers and smartphones.
FUEL FROM PLASTICS TO BE USED ON INTERCONTINENTAL FLIGHT FRIDAY, 24 AUGUST 2012 14:52 Jeremy Rowsell of Australia is planning to fly a diesel-engine Cessna 182 from Australia to London on "Wings of Waste" using fuel made from unrecyclable plastics.
On 7 September 2012, Guillaume Fichet, Principal Research Engineer at Plastic Logic, will present recent advances in the development of Plastic Logic's organic thin-film transistor (OTFT) backplane technology at ICFPE2012 in Tokyo, Japan. Key findings will be discussed on the improved reliability of organic thin-film transistors including understanding the effects of certain manufacturing process steps on initial transistor performance and long term electrical stability.
The fuel meets specifications but has never been tested on an aircraft It will be donated as soon as Rowsell, a stock broker by profession, convinces sponsors to support his risky trip. The diesel fuel is made to EN 590 specification, which is a standard in Europe for automotive fuels. However, it is not Jet A fuel.
Organic thin-film transistors are fundamental to Plastic Logic's flexible plastic display technology. They are processed on a flexible plastic substrate to drive an electrophoretic display media, supplied by E Ink速, resulting in a fully plastic-based display which can be manufactured in colour, monochrome and in a wide variety of shapes and
The Cessna 182 he hopes to use with its SMA diesel engine was announced during the recent EAA AirVenture 2012 in Oshkosh, Wis. 25
His cause is also hindered by a video, which points out the
ANDHRA PRADESH PLASTICS MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION dangers of the flight. Because of the risks, sponsors have so far refused to climb aboard the project. According to the Rowsell's website, the best time for the flight is October, but the blog indicates it is more likely to be spring or summer of 2013.
Speaking about traders in the city reluctant to obtain trade license from BBMP, the commissioner said talks are going on with BESCOM to tag the trade license along with electricity bills, which every trader is bound to pay.
SEIZED PLASTIC FOR ROADS STAFF REPORTER
The fuel will be made by Cynar in Portlaoise, Ireland, in six weeks after getting the go-ahead from Rowsell. After that, it will be positioned along a 10,000 mile route from Sydney to London by his crew.
The Central Business District has emerged as a source of plastic bags for plastic roads in the city.
Cynar Chief Exec Michael Murray said his company sells the technology to make the fuel, rather than the fuel itself, to corporations wanting to rid themselves of plastics that are at the end of their lives and can no longer be recycled.
Plastic bags that have less than a 40-micron thickness have been banned, as per the provisions of the Centre's notification on Plastic Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2011.
To manufacture fuel, plastic is heated and the fumes are then distilled. According to the company, it takes one ton of end-of-life plastics to make 185 gallons of diesel fuel plus 53 gallons of gasoline and 26 gallons of kerosene.
Tonnes of such bags are being seized by civic body officials from business establishments that continue to violate rules even after the enforcement has been intensified.
Murray added that he has a quarter-billion dollars' worth of orders for the technology over the next five years. "The cost of the fuel is 10 percent less than whatever fuel costs in your local market," he said. Cynar is developing a plant in England at Avonmouth, near Bristol, 112 miles directly west of London.
BRUHAT BENGALURU MAHANAGARA PALIKE BEGINS STRICT IMPOSITION OF PLASTIC BAN WEDNESDAY, 05 SEPTEMBER 2012 10:16 Following a strict ban on usage of plastic below 40 micron, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike on Tuesday seized 7.5 tones of garbage from various trading centres in east, west and southern Bangalore. BBMP's advertising and Health team visited trading hubs at Malleswaram, Gandhi Nagar, Chamarajpet, Avenue road, Shanthi Nagar, Muneshwara Nagar, BTM Layout, Padmanabh Nagar, Jayanagar, Chikpet, Vijayanagar and levied hefty penalty of Rs 98,700 on the violators. However, the BBMP which had banned the use of polythene bags below 40 microns had so far miserably failed to enforce the same. The plastic below 40 microns is being used indiscriminately across the city. Initially, both the BBMP and the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) raided on a few plastic bag manufacturing units which were producing and selling plastic bags below 40 micros. Trade license tagged to electricity bills BBMP Commissioner Rajneesh Goel said that the plastic was the culprit behind the heaps of garbage generated. 26
On Saturday, officials raided business establishments in George Town in streets such as Pidariamman Koil Street and seized over 500 kg of banned plastic bags. The civic body has seized over five tonnes of illegal plastic bags in a few streets of George Town this week, said an official of the civic body. The seized plastic bags are to be a source of plastic for the proposed road re-laying projects in the city. "We will use the seized plastic bags for plastic roads after shredding them. We are not filing an FIR now," said an official. Most retail outlets in the city prefer plastic bags with a thickness of less than 20 microns, according to workers at a number of manufacturing units. The Corporation in June commenced an intensified drive to stop selling of plastic bags below 40 microns. During the commencement of the raid, the civic body claimed that it seized over 4.97 tonnes of plastic bags. Many of the units located in areas such as Muthamizh Nagar, where a small-scale plastic bag manufacturing unit was sealed for violating the rules in June, have stopped such illegal manufacturing. But the wholesale dealers who had already acquired huge stocks of illegal plastic bags are trying to sell it. This has facilitated the continual seizure of plastic bags by civic body even after many weeks of intensified raids.
GOLD IN EXCHANGE FOR POLYTHENE WASTE K. MANIKANDAN Residents or groups that mobilise and collect 500 kg of plastic below 40 microns thick will receive a four-gram gold coin
ANDHRA PRADESH PLASTICS MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION Residents of Maraimalai Nagar can now hope to get gold without spending any money. All they need to invest is some time and store as many empty plastic sachets, polythene covers and other plastic waste below the thickness of 40 microns.
Workers from the panchayat would later dispose of the waste. Minister for Highways and Minor Ports Edappadi K. Palanisamy distributed the free dustbins and asked the people to cooperate in preserving the environment.
The local body will give a gram of gold for a minimum of 125 kilograms. "We want to combat the menace caused by plastic waste, especially those below the thickness of 40 microns. While most plastic waste collected from households is recycled by workers engaged in primary collection, discarded water sachets and thin polythene covers end up choking drains and water channels," said M.G.K. Gopikannan, chairman of Maraimalai Nagar, a special-grade municipality.
BANGALORE FIRM TO HELP DO AWAY WITH PLASTIC WASTE SANGEETHA UNNITHAN Discussions on to set up pyrolysis plant The Corporation, still in the dark about how to dispose of the organic waste generated in the city with the Vilappilsala plant remaining closed, has some hope on the plastic waste disposal front.
The municipality came up with the initiative of offering gold in exchange of plastic waste to persuade people to shun its use. Residents or groups that mobilise and collect 500 kilograms of use-and-throw plastic below the thickness of 40 microns will receive a four-gram gold coin. "We will give a gram of gold for 125 kilograms of plastic waste and 2 grams for 250 kilograms," Mr. Gopikannan said.
The civic body has arrived at an understanding with the Bangalore-based Green Transit Renewable Energies, which has come forward with an offer to collect and process plastic waste from the city.
According to him, every household generated nothing less than 100 grams of plastic waste. In its drive against the menace, the municipality recovered 1.5 tonnes of plastic waste on Thursday and Friday.
Final round of discussions was held last week by the city Corporation and the Suchitwa Mission authorities with the representatives of the company regarding the setting up of a pyrolysis plant for processing plastic waste.
With a population of around 90,000 in 21 wards, the municipality generates about 40 tonnes of garbage everyday. In addition to households, Maraimalai Nagar is dotted with industries, small and big. The collected plastic waste is currently stored in a dilapidated and abandoned community hall.
The plant with a capacity to process 10 tonnes of plastic waste per day is proposed to come up near Thonnakkal on the land leased out by the Sathya Sai Orphanage Trust. As per the agreement reached between the Corporation and the company, the Corporation will provide segregated, cleaned and dried plastic to the company, which will use it as a raw material for the pyrolysis plant.
FREE DUSTBINS TO SEGREGATE PLASTICS ITEMS
"This is entirely a private project coming up on a private land. The State government and Corporation have only agreed upon providing plastic waste to the company. As of now, there are no financial deals between the company and the Corporation. The plastic waste will be provided free of cost," an official of Suchitwa Mission said.
STAFF REPORTER In a bid to encourage people to segregate degradable and biodegradable plastics at their residence, 2,000 pairs of dustbins were distributed to villagers in Yercaud recently. Yercaud, located in Servarayan hills, is known for its coffee plantations and orange groves. But use of plastics is extensive in the tourist centre even as the district administration has taken efforts to make the hill station a plastic-free zone.
Soon to take off Mayor K. Chandrika said the project was expected to take off within a couple of months soon after the pyrolysis plant was constructed at Thonakkal. "Once this project is implemented, we will be able to collect plastic waste from every household in the city. We can employ Kudumbasree Clean Well unit workers for the work," Ms. Chandrika said.
As part of it, dustbins were placed at many points in the hills and at tourist spots so that plastics items are not disposed of in the open.
G. Murali Krishnan of Green Transit Renewable Energies said the "100 per cent eco-friendly plastic pyrolysis" plant would decompose the plastic waste into furnace oil, carbon black and natural gas. "Furnace oil, which can be used for boilers or refined further into liquid petroleum products, will
Villagers were disposing of the waste in open that cause serious environmental issues and hence, 4,000 dustbins, two per household, would help them to segregate the waste by them. 27
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at Bhubaneswar concentrates on biopolymers, e-waste recycling, polymer composites and nano-composites. A model plastic waste management centre has been set up at Guwahati in order to tackle the problem of waste management and educate people on the subject.
"While furnace oil and carbon black can be sold out, we will be using the natural gas to run the plant, making it a selfsufficient project in terms of energy. All kinds of plastic waste and even rubber and used lubricants can be processed in the plant," Mr. Krishnan said.
CIPET has signed a memorandum of understanding with over 15 renowned institutions and universities within and outside India. Bilateral R&D initiatives and collaborative research projects, and student exchange programmes form part of the CIPET activities.
He said the construction of the plan would begin within a fortnight of signing formal agreements. "We have similar plastic pyrolysis plants in Maharashtra, Gujarat, New Delhi and Andhra Pradesh. The plant coming up in Thiruvananthapuram will be a Rs.2.64-crore project. The construction of the plant is expected to be completed in 60 days," he said.
CIPET also receives academic and consultancy service assignments from countries such as UAE, Singapore, Malaysia, Kenya, Sultanate of Oman and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
PLASTICS INDUSTRY TO BENEFIT FROM NEW RESEARCH CENTRE
DALLAS AIMS FOR ZERO WASTE IN NEW SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT PLAN
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT The establishment of a biopolymer study centre in Kochi will boost the prospects of providing support to the plastics industry in the country.
Dallas aims to achieve zero waste, but no timetable was set to meet that goal as the City Council formally adopted a solid waste management plan Aug. 22.
About 400 plastic manufacturing units in the State will benefit from the research and development of technology at the centre.
The plan had previously set a goal of diverting 40% of Dallas' waste by 2020 and 60% by 2030, and all of it (zero waste) by 2040. Those dates were stripped out of the proposal, the Dallas Morning Newsreported.
Central Institute of Plastics Engineering & Technology (CIPET), which is setting up the centre here, renders technology support services in design, tooling, plastics processing and testing and quality assurance in India and abroad.
The plan aims to have the city of 1.2 million consider a handful of proposals in the coming years, including requiring recycling at apartments and businesses in the city. The plan also outlines a program to start the separate collection of organic waste, require recycling of construction debris, promote extended producer responsibility programs and consider bans on single use plastic bags and polystyrene foam.
The plastics testing centre at CIPET is equipped with the state-of-the art equipment and is recognised as one of the best plastic testing facilities in Asia, according to CIPET officials.
The plan also calls for the consideration of the construction of a new MRF along with the development of a resource recovery park to "convert waste products into energy."
Several central and State government organisations as well as plastics manufacturers utilise CIPET's expertise for consultancy services and as a third party inspection agency for plastics products. The biodegradable testing centre at CIPET, set up jointly with European Bioplastics & International Biodegradable products Institute is the first of its kind in the country. The Kochi centre will also be able to offer similar services in future, the officials said.
That last line was of concern to the Texas Campaign for the Environment, which said it would open the door for a wasteto-energy facility, which is not typically part of a zero waste program. Burning garbage is just a possibility, city officials said, according to the Dallas Observer.
CIPET has established two exclusive R&D centres at Chennai and Bhubaneswar. The Advanced Research School for Technology & Product Simulation (ARSTPS) at Chennai focuses on innovative product design for automobile aerospace, medical and packaging industries, product and tool design conceptualisation.
GATES FOUNDATION PROMOTES 'TOILET REVOLUTION' The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Seattle campus was taken over by toilets this week. The foundation is hosting a "Reinvent the Toilet Fair" Aug. 14 and 15 to showcase new
The Laboratory for Advanced Research in Polymer Materials 28
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a half-century, that in the midst of an economic downturn it would seem incumbent upon us to simply focus on what we do best and do it as economically as we can.
The United Nations estimated about half of the hospitalizations in the developing world are caused by unsafe sanitation, the article indicates.
I watched the hiring wave Waste Management launched under the name of "sustainability." I predicted six months ago that this was going to come crashing in on the company.
One year ago, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation challenged scientists to reinvent the toilet. New models must operate without running water, electricity or a septic system, not discharge pollutants, preferably capture energy or other resources, and operate at a cost of 5 cents a day, according to the article.
The "green weenies" misinterpreted my predictions because they never take off their green glasses long enough to realize that we are spending dollars to save dimes. Common sense tells you when you are losing money at a particular venture either you are doing it wrong or you need to get out of it. Even the Good Book suggests that there is a "time and a season."
One toilet at the fair captures urine and uses it for flushing; another turns excrement into charcoal. Scientists from the California Institute of Technology designed a solar-powered toilet that generates hydrogen and electricity, winning a $100,000 grant from the foundation to develop its design, according to the article.
I recall for a period of time in the '80s when Waste Management seemed to lean toward the voice of accountants and away from seasoned operations veterans. If memory serves correctly, it ended in scandal.
WASTE MANAGEMENT NEEDS TO GET BACK TO THE BASICS
Every time the decision is made to dabble in the numbers and get "creative," things start to fall apart. My dad's favorite line when it came to describing controllers was "figures lie and liars figure." I've had the pleasure of meeting some great controllers over the years, but they are few and far between. I've never been convinced that bringing people on board from outside the industry is a good idea - or letting a controller take the lead in operating decisions.
Waste Management's recent announcement that it is cutting a layer of management and 700 jobs reminds me that in this business, everything is cyclical. There is nothing new as far as operating strategy or innovative sales management. The garbage business may seem ever-changing, yet it always remains the same. We wander down detours now and again. We rattle like a screen door in a tornado to satisfy trends in recycling and now "sustainability." Nonetheless, it's still, pickup, transport, recycle and dispose.
Cutting heads has always been "magic" in the eyes of The Street. Remember the days of "Chain Saw Al"? Al Dunlap was a corporate executive turnaround specialist and downsizer. Whacking the employee roster and dabbling in a little creative accounting were two of his tactics. He's now considered one of the worst CEOs in history.
Major corporations dance like puppets as The Street pulls the strings. In this economy simply being acquisitive is not going to keep The Street interested. It worked during the roll-up boom years, but now? Not so much. Waste Management is once again looking into the past with the same vision and hope as those who believe leisure suits will return to fashion.
We've seen micro-management, decentralized management, layer upon layer of management, recruiting from outside the industry and relying on the advice of airline executives, freight and parcel deliverymen, uniform sales executives and the controllers. From where I stand, watching these cycles, it appears that whenever the "old garbage man" is removed from the equation, things begin to fall apart. Taking the real garbage man - the operating guy - out of the picture is like removing the Colonel from KFC.
When Waste Management took off in the early days back in the '70s and '80s, it determined it would be a good idea to get into port-o-lets, fencing, mobile office units, bugs and grass, storage, street sweeping and virtually any ancillary construction venture. Most recently Waste Management unveiled municipal services like wastewater treatment, engineering, etc. It has also sought to become partners in a myriad of waste-to-energy ventures.
This isn't rocket science guys. Pickup, transport, process, dispose and bill. Contact WRN columnist thetrashmaster@ymail.com.
It seems to me that the company is placing chips all over the board hoping that one or more will pay off when the wheel stops spinning. I admire initiative and thinking outsidethe-box. I'm also one old garbage man who has seen, after 29
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has to take the items out of the bag and resort them, or fish out the plastic bags.
Phoenix has tried for years to persuade residents to stop throwing plastic grocery bags into the city's blue recycle bins.
"(It) just seems wrong to leave them in the bin when I see them," she said.
POLL: PAPER, PLASTIC ... OR NEITHER? But despite the city's efforts, many residents continue to toss the bags in the containers, costing more than $1 million a year. And residents who do this may do more harm than good because the city turns around and dumps the plastic in the landfill.
Pollack, who is also the executive director of Valley Permaculture Alliance, said her non-profit teaches people how to live sustainably. When she forgets to bring her cloth bag to the grocery store, Pollack uses a plastic bag, which she reuses for pet litter. Pollack believes getting the message to people is a real challenge.
A city-commissioned survey of 1,201 residents in February indicated 11 percent of respondents still threw plastic bags into the recycle bin. "I don't think people are being malicious," said Terry Gellenbeck, Phoenix's solid waste administrative analyst. "A lot of people get mixed up."
"I think people don't get the message," she said. "People say, 'We're surprised I never saw that.' I think people are so busy they don't take the time or a small amount of people don't care. I think it's probably just ignorance because people have not gotten themselves informed."
Despite the survey, Albert Alvarez, Phoenix recycling information specialist, said he has seen an improvement since grocery stores started Bag Central Station in 2007. Through the program, residents can toss plastic bags in bins at the grocery store so the plastic can be recycled into items such as plastic furniture and decking.
THE CITY'S PROGRAM The city's recycling program began in the late 1980s. Phoenix Public Works Department began putting together a five-year plan expecting the Valley would grapple with growth. The city predicted it would fill two landfills to capacity by the mid-1990s.
"Plastic bags are recyclable but not in your bin at home," he said. "At the grocery store, the plastic bags stay nice and clean. And the grocery store, they turn around and have a buyer for all their plastics."
Phoenix officials decided to deal with solid-waste management by promoting the three "R's" -- reduce, reuse, recycle. Phoenix collects 1.25 billion pounds of garbage annually, enough to fill Chase Field seven times. And it recycles 120,000 tons. every year.
THE SURVEY Phoenix's most recent research about plastic-bag recycling was finished in February. The city also conducted research in 2008 and 2007.
Phoenix now picks up recycling and garbage on the same day -- a recent change -- for its 400,000 households.
According to the research, 72 percent of plastic-bag users find other uses for them, while 11 percent returned them to the store and 11 percent disposed of them in the city's recycling container. The previous study showed 10 percent pitched plastic bags into recycle bins in 2008, down from 12 percent in 2007.
The contents of the blue bins end up at one of two transfer stations: the North Gateway Transfer Station, 30205 N. Black Canyon Highway, or the 27th Avenue Transfer Station, 3060 S. 27th Ave. At North Gateway Transfer Station, operated by ReCommunity, workers operate machines that sort and bale recycled items.
Phoenix Behavior Research Center Inc. conducted the study by telephone with Phoenix heads of households in February. The purpose of the work was to gauge residents' use of plastic bags and their attitudes about plastic-bag recycling, according to the research.
Gellenbeck said Re-Community finds the buyers for recycled items. If, for example, the company sells recycled paper to China, it could be reused as a shoe box.
The survey also asked respondents about their attitudes about plastic bags as an ecological problem and their awareness of Bag Central Station displays at grocery stores.
"They cut us a check of 90 percent of the material, and (the city) receive 10 percent," he said of the company. "If we put the right things into the blue barrels, we get the best price for the materials."
Doreen Pollack, who lives in Phoenix, said she has a guest house, and her guests often put their recyclable items in a plastic bag or they throw everything into the bin. She then
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Glass: Glass bottles, jars and any food-grade glass containers.
HOW IT WORKS On one recent morning, a truck pulled into the station and dumped the morning collection.
Metal: Aluminum cans, metal cans, small metal appliances and empty aerosol cans (no paint, pesticides, oven cleaners).
Out tumbled heaps of empty boxes that once contained diapers, fruit, cereal, beer or pizza. The load also contained air filters, aluminum cans, glass jars and plastic-grocery bags.
Source: Phoenix. Republic reporter Dianna M. Náñez contributed to this article. http://www.azcentral.com/community/phoenix/articles/2012/ 08/22/20120822phoenix-recycling-plastic-bags-problemonline-prog.html?page=5#ixzz26L3Abvd8
A front loader placed heaps of the materials on a conveyor belt as the sorting process started. Workers stood on the side of the machine and manually caught plastic bags, but some whizzed by.
THE LONDON OLYMPICS MOST MEMORABLE PLASTICS TECHNOLOGY An earlier post here described five examples of plastics technology at the recently concluded London Olympics. There were many more than five, and after watching as much of the Games as I could, two other examples of plastics tech stood out as noteworthy.
Down the line, a machine with rollers sorted paper by size. Its enemy: plastic bags. "What happens is we have these bars that spin, and there's rubber wheels on them, well, the plastic bags get wrapped around the rubber wheels," Alvarez said. "In between the wheels, there are open slots that bottles and cans are supposed to fall through but the plastic bags get wrapped up and it jams those holes and close them up and the materials don't get sorted properly."
A double amputee from infancy, Oscar Pistorius is the first disadvantaged athlete to run at the Olympic Games. Oscar Pistorius represented the Republic of South Africa in the 400-meter run, and though he only reached the semifinals, he set a record that will stand forever. A double amputee from the knees down, he will forever be the first disabled athlete to compete in the Olympics.
The plastic bags brought the machine to a grinding halt, and workers fixed the machine by pulling out plastic bags. This happens two to four times per day, creating a 15-minute shutdown each time, Gellenbeck said.
Pistorius uses prosthetics that have earned him the nickname Blade Runner. He doesn't particularly like that title, but the J-shaped Cheetah prosthetics do resemble blades. The prosthetics, according to their manufacturer, the Icelandbased global orthopedics supplier Össur, are made of carbon fiber. There is a relatively expensive technology known as "carbon-on-carbon," but the Cheetah more than likely is made of carbon-fiber-reinforced-plastic (CFRP), with the plastic as a matrix to hold the carbon fibers in the desired shape.
This stoppage of workers costs about $1 million per year at both transfer stations, city officials say. THE SOLUTION If people take the bags to the grocery store, they are clean and are perfect for recycling, said Stephanie Ribodal Romero, Phoenix spokeswoman. The Arizona Food Marketing Alliance, an advocacy group for the state's food industry, began a partnership with Phoenix in 2007, placing Bag Central Station recycle bins in its member stores. The intent is to encourage the recycling of plastic bags and to reduce their use.
Named one of the world's most innovative companies earlier this year by Fast Companymagazine, Össur custom designs these and many other types of prosthetics to fit the specific
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stadium and sporting more than 50 official "Colors of the Games" as specified by the London Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG). Dow used its latest generation elastomers to create an innovative and inspirational solution - on time and on budget. The textile is a lightweight polyester fabric with a polyolefin-based coating that provides good printability and fire protection. Critically, the panels meet LOCOG's stringent sustainability standards. To make it happen, Dow quickly assembled a collaborative supply chain that included: stadium architect Populous, the Cooley Group for manufacturing, Rainier for fabrication, and Shade Worldwide for installation.
South African Olympian Oscar Pistorius is shown at Össur Americas' California facility. He struggled for years to run the qualifying time for the Olympics and to overcome a banagainst him participating at all, because it was thought the Cheetah prosthetics gave him an advantage. In May 2008, too late for the Beijing games, the Court of Arbitration for Sport struck down the ban, saying the prosthetic lower legs gave no real advantage.
Besides the panels wrapping the Olympic Stadium (background), Dow supplied the resin for recycling bins used at more than 30 Olympic venues.
After running the 400-meter qualifying time for the London games, Pistorius finally was allowed to make his Olympic debut in London, and it was a major sensation. Although he did not qualify for the 400-meter finals, it's fair to say that more eyes were on him than on the runners ahead of him in his qualifying and semifinal runs. The visual is almost surreal, and the man is flat-out fast.
Dow's sustainability efforts are numerous. The total wrap system, including steel cables and fixtures, is less than half of one percent of the stadium's total carbon footprint. Dow partnered with the UK building and development charity Article 25 and Axion Recycling to repurpose the entire stadium wrap when the Olympics and Paralympics are done. Result: Dow's textile wrap panels are going to recycling and reuse projects in the UK, and as shelter solutions for at-risk children in Uganda and Rio de Janeiro, site of the 2016 Summer Olympics and Paralympics.
Speaking of attracting eyes, the organizers of the London Games intended that the Olympic Stadium would be the focal point for the big event. Based on how often TV broadcasters featured its unique shape and brilliant lights, the organizers hit their goal. And a major piece of credit for the stadium's brilliant success belongs to Dow Chemical Company. 25-meter tall panels supplied by Dow Chemical wrapped the Olympic Stadium in London. Early in 2011, which already was rather late in the Olympic preparations, the original design for wrapping the Olympic Stadium had to be abandoned for cost reasons. Another solution was needed on a very short timeline, and after following a demanding procurement process, Dow's proposal was selected. Dow's solution was 336 individual textilepanels, each about 25 meters high by 2.5 meters wide, reaching from the concourse level to the upper tier of the 33
As the Official Chemistry Company of the Olympic Games, Dow completed many projects for the London event, such as: Supplying the adhesive critical to the safe high performance surface of the running track in Olympic Stadium; Using Dowlex polyethylene resins to create the artificial grass of the field hockey playing surface in vivid blue with a pink border; Designing, producing, and installing the resin flooring at the site of the training pools for aquatics athletes using its epoxymaterials with low volatile organic compounds (VOCs); and supplying the resin for the 3,600 litter and recycling bins positioned across more than 30 Olympic venues. The bins also meet LOCOG's legacy specifications, as they will be sold and reused at future events across the UK.
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From the Desk of Chairman of Taxation Committee It is an immense pleasure in informing you that your association (APPMA) has taken the initiative of looking into the issues of your business organizations with regards to taxation and try to give solutions for the same. For the same the Taxation committee has appointed a panel of experts of Income Tax, Sales Tax, Excise and other government related issues to resolve the issue by giving the expert advice. We have empanelled the expert from the various fields to whom you can address your query(s) and they will be giving their opinion on the same. We appreciate the efforts of the APPMA and request you to make use of the facility provided, Further we would also like to inform you that we will be publishing the latest updates, Circulars and the G.Os relating to taxation and our industry in the magazine published for keeping you updated. The panels of Consultants are: 1. M/s Agarwal & Ladda, Chartered Accountants #32, Ist Floor, Raghav Ratna Towers, Chirag Ali Lane, Abids,Hyderabad -1. email: agarwalandladda@gmail.com 2.
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