Karen Laird is the Editor of Sustainable Plastics at Crain Communications. She focuses on themes of climate change, sustainability, and manufacturing, with a particular interest in ESG, markets, and the environmental impact of materials and chemicals. Karen's work has been featured in Rubber News, Plastics News, and Sustainable Plastics.
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Karen Laird's coverage predominantly focuses on sustainability, manufacturing, and biotechnology. She frequently reports on private sector announcements and press releases related to sustainable initiatives in these industries.
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An often repeated mantra in the plastics industry is the need for strong partnerships and collaborations to move towards a sustainable, circular future.
First machines installed at projected Parx production site Parx Materials NV, a Rotterdam-based creator and supplier of non-biocidal
By: Karen Laird
The Circular Foam project, which aims to enhance the circularity of rigid polyurethane (PU) foam, is entering the end stretch.
An often repeated mantra in the plastics industry is the need for strong partnerships and collaborations to move towards a sustainable, circular future. Now, Röhm, together with several partners, is putting this into action by establishing a Europe-wide alliance for the recycling of polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA).
Following its acquisition over the summer of Vinatic , one of the leading flexible plastic recyclers in Vietnam, Cedo continues to pursue its
By: Karen Laird
Vitol B.V., headquartered in Rotterdam, has announced that it has entered into a conditional agreement to acquire a controlling interest in the
Dow and Innventure, a technology commercialisation platform, are collaborating to develop and commercialise new waste-to-value technologies to
By: Karen Laird
As a company long known for using recycled material in their products, Cedo's decision to appoint a sustainability director was in line with
Aiming to improve the mechanical recycling of plastics and to take this technology to the next level, BASF has teamed up a number of partners to study how this might best be achieved. In collaboration with Endress+Hauser, TechnoCompound and the Universities of Bayreuth and Jena in Germany, a new project called SpecRek has been launched. The total project will invest more than $2.2 million, with two-thirds financed by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) from its quantum systems research program and one-third financed by the project partners.
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