International Plastics News for Asia Magazine - October 2024

In this issue

The 2024 ASEAN Manufacturing Summit: Creating a Circular Economy for Plastics in Jakarta featured interesting presentations from industry experts on sustainable plastic packaging production and other solutions to reduce the environmental impact of plastics. We featured a leading expert in this area, Pak Henky Wibawa, who offered his insights on emerging trends that packaging producers should take into consideration when designing their operations to achieve a circular economy.
This issue carries a preview of Fakuma 2024, a leading exhibition on industrial plastics processing. This year, the exhibition will present a comprehensive overview of plastics technologies aimed at digitalisation and sustainability, two all-important topics in the plastics industry today.
Post-consumer recycled (PCR) resins are finding their way in a growing range of applications. Southeast Asia is a fast-rising centre for recycling and production of PCR resins. We were able to visit the new Pan Era Group’s plant in Cikande, Indonesia where we had the chance to see the company’s production of recycled resins from post-consumer plastic waste and learned how the company has been responding to the needs of various industries.

International Plastics News for Asia Magazine Description:

International Plastics News for Asia is published 6x a year in English with highlights in Chinese. The magazine is uniquely positioned to serve the needs of South East Asia's plastics processing industry, including contract molders and manufacturers with in-plant machinery lines. It provides the latest market information, quality technical features, trade show reviews and videos, and people and company profiles written by industry experts and correspondents across the region. Also included are exclusive content and articles from Ringier's family of plastics industry magazines covering Greater China region, the Middle East and other parts of the world, such as Modern Plastics and Polymers in India, Plastics Engineering in the US, Kunststoffe in Germany, Polymer Materials in Russia, Technologia del Plastico in Latin Amercia – which are the leading magazines in their respective markets. The interactive content allows readers to make direct and immediate contact with advertisers/suppliers and featured companies in the editorial by clicking on the web site and email addresses in each issue, access online content in Ringier’s plastics website in English and Chinese (plastics.industrysourcing.com), and avail of video content through iTunes and Google Play.