Are you still struggling to choose packaging materials? We'll explore the pros and cons of PET (polyethylene terephthalate) and PVC (polyvinyl chloride), two popular plastic packaging materials, to help you choose the one that best suits your packaging needs!

In order to implement the Sunnylands Statement on Strengthening Cooperation to Address the Climate Crisis, on October 31, 2024, the Circular Economy Task Force of the China-Us Climate Action Working Group held a briefing of the China-Us Circular Economy Expert Dialogue via video conference.Mr. Dechun Liu, Director General of the Department of Environmental Information of the National Development and Reform Commission, and Mr. Rick Duke, Deputy Special Envoy of the US President for Climate Issues, attended and addressed the meeting. Mr. Mark Kasman, Director of the Office of International Affairs of the US Environmental Protection Agency, chaired the meeting.

In April 2022, six departments including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the "Guiding Opinions on the 14th Five-Year Plan to Promote the High-quality Development of the Petrochemical and Chemical Industry" to optimize and integrate the research and development platform and create innovation centers in fields including high-performance engineering plastics. In December 2023, The State Council issued the "Action Plan for Continuous Improvement of Air Quality" notice, proposing to promote the low-nitrogen combustion transformation of gas PEEK materials.

A French lawmaker has proposed banning plastic bottles smaller than 500 ml to reduce environmental pollution. According to the European News website reported on the 22nd, a French lawmaker proposed to ban plastic bottles smaller than 500 ml, in order to reduce pollution to the environment. [Global Times comprehensive report]

Degradable polyester materials: degradable polyester materials are a class of biodegradable polymer materials, which can be gradually decomposed into small molecules in the natural environment or through the enzymatic hydrolysis of organisms, and eventually absorbed by organisms or discharged from the body. This kind of material has a wide application prospect in the medical field because of its good biocompatibility, degradability and processing performance.

On September 23, the National Development and Reform Commission held a special press conference to introduce the overall progress of large-scale equipment updates and consumer goods for new policies. At the meeting, Chenxin Zhao, a member of the Party group and deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission, revealed that the China Resources Recycling Group is under preparation. This is the first official disclosure of the progress of the establishment of the resource recycling Group at the official level. After the news, the A-share steel plate changed in the afternoon, and Zhongnan shares quickly pulled up the limit.

Polypropylene, a polymer of propylene by addition polymerization reaction, is a thermoplastic synthetic resin with excellent properties. It is a colorless semi-transparent thermoplastic lightweight general purpose plastic.

With the rapid development of electronic information technology, the problem of waste pollution caused by electronic products has also begun to attract more and more attention. In this context, in the face of regulatory requirements, resource scarcity, raw material price growth and other challenges, more and more enterprises began to integrate the concept of circular economy into their strategic development, such as Gree, Haier and other household appliances and technology brands have been widely used in recycled plastics. In addition, many companies are also accelerating into the field of recycled plastics.

Since the 1980s, PET as an engineering plastic has made breakthrough progress, and continued to develop nucleating agents and crystallization promoters, PET and PBT together as thermoplastic polyester, become one of the five major engineering plastics (PA PC POM PBT PPO).

PET plastic is the abbreviation for Polyethylene terephthalate in English, abbreviated as PET. As a small variety in the plastic classification, what are its properties? What are the application areas?