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Recycled plastics are crucial for reducing waste, but ensuring their quality and safety requires careful management. 🌍✨

This UN News article emphasizes the need to control contamination risks when using recycled plastics, especially in sensitive areas like food packaging. For compounders and recyclers, it highlights a vital point: successful recycling hinges on consistent material handling, precise processing, and robust quality control.

Check out the full article here: https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/05/1167498

Reducing startup scrap starts with improving process stability! 🛠️

In pipe and profile extrusion, significant material losses can occur even before production hits optimal conditions. Variations in throughput, material flow, cooling, and downstream control during startup can lead to off-spec products, wasted resin, and unnecessary downtime.

This blog dives into:
• The hidden cost of startup waste 💰
• Why inconsistent material feeding creates instability
• How extrusion control improves repeatability
• Ways processors can reduce scrap while supporting sustainability goals 🌱

As the use of recycled content rises and production targets tighten, achieving stable and repeatable startup performance is more crucial than ever.

Read the full blog here: https://tsm-controls.com/blog/2026/06/22/reducing-startup-scrap-in-pipe-profile-extrusion/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Post&utm_campaign=Pipe+%26+Profile+Extrusion