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Ending Polyethylene Terephthalate's Wild Ride
For example, Binetti says, DuPont has developed a recyclable barrier coating for beer bottles that provides 30 times more barrier to oxygen and carbon dioxide than traditional PET, thus helping open the beer market to PET. The future of the PET business depends upon the ability of PET resin producers to judge the market and to discipline themselves as the market improves, according to Fournier.
by Karen J. Watkins | November 27, 2000
Newscripts
C&EN: Newscripts August 2, 2004 Volume 82, Number 31 p. 192 Astronomers unravel marathon mystery Sounds like clearer beer BY K. M. REESE Astronomers unravel marathon mystery As the Olympic games in Athens approach, astronomers in Texas couldn't resist tinkering with the commonly accepted date of the first marathon run.
by BY K. M. REESE | August 02, 2004
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Celebrating eccentric chemistry graduation traditions
Plunkett is an amateur brewmaster, and he makes a batch of beer to honor each freshly minted graduate. He and his student each get a bottle with a custom label featuring their picture together and the date. But don’t worry: The remaining beer doesn’t go to waste. “The rest is for a departmental kegger/graduation party,” he says.
by Andrea Widener | June 03, 2018
GENIE IN THE BOTTLE
And PET still has the potential to return to huge growth if its luck changes in markets that have so far been elusive--notably beer, which has been called the Holy Grail of PET for nearly a decade. Kevin M. Fogarty, president of polymers and resins at Invista--the name for the combined entity of Invista and the former KoSa polyester business following Koch's purchase of Invista from DuPont--says the beer bottle market is so large that every 1% of penetration by PET translates into a 1% increase in operating rates at PET plants. Producers debate why plastic beer bottles aren't common. Dewsbury suggests it's marketing strategy. Consumers, he says, rejected brewers' efforts to market long-neck PET beer bottles. Beer in PET did find a niche in sporting venues, he notes, but in few other places in the U.S. Dewsbury says larger 22- and 40-oz beer bottles, where aesthetics aren't as important, would have been a more worthwhile target. "Beer companies might have had more success if they had gone after convenience store packaging," he says. Invista's Fogarty thinks technology is the reason PET hasn't caught on in beer yet. PET, by itself, doesn't provide enough of an oxygen barrier to be an effective beer container. As a result, PET beer bottles need additional barrier layers of nylon, plasma-applied coatings, or polyethylene naphthalate that raise production costs.
by ALEXANDER H. TULLO, C&EN NORTHEAST NEWS BUREAU | June 21, 2004
GENIE IN THE BOTTLE
And PET still has the potential to return to huge growth if its luck changes in markets that have so far been elusive--notably beer, which has been called the Holy Grail of PET for nearly a decade. Kevin M. Fogarty, president of polymers and resins at Invista--the name for the combined entity of Invista and the former KoSa polyester business following Koch's purchase of Invista from DuPont--says the beer bottle market is so large that every 1% of penetration by PET translates into a 1% increase in operating rates at PET plants. Producers debate why plastic beer bottles aren't common. Dewsbury suggests it's marketing strategy. Consumers, he says, rejected brewers' efforts to market long-neck PET beer bottles. Beer in PET did find a niche in sporting venues, he notes, but in few other places in the U.S. Dewsbury says larger 22- and 40-oz beer bottles, where aesthetics aren't as important, would have been a more worthwhile target. "Beer companies might have had more success if they had gone after convenience store packaging," he says. Invista's Fogarty thinks technology is the reason PET hasn't caught on in beer yet. PET, by itself, doesn't provide enough of an oxygen barrier to be an effective beer container. As a result, PET beer bottles need additional barrier layers of nylon, plasma-applied coatings, or polyethylene naphthalate that raise production costs.
by ALEXANDER H. TULLO, C&EN NORTHEAST NEWS BUREAU | June 21, 2004
Congress Looks At Facility Security
Throughout the year, DHS Undersecretary Rand Beers tried to assure lawmakers that the department is making an effort to get the program on track. DHS is “working as quickly as possible” on an action plan that was devised in response to the internal report, Beers told the House of Representatives Energy & Commerce Committee at an oversight hearing on Sept. 11.
by Glenn Hess | December 24, 2012
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Newscripts
Powered by Beer In what is sure to bring new meaning to the college drinking game "power hour," Australian scientists have tapped into an unlikely alternative power resource—BREWERY WASTEWATER. According to the U.K.'s Daily Telegraph, the project, a joint initiative between the University of Queensland and beer maker Foster's, has lead to a prototype fuel cell in which microbes feed on sugar, starch, and residual alcohol in brewery wastewater.
by Faith Hayden | May 28, 2007
Brewing Degree, Lolly Lovers, Pop Endurance
Kalamazoo Valley Community College and Western Michigan University have teamed up to offer what they claim is the first U.S. higher education program in sustainable craft beer brewing. The Newscripts gang gets the “higher” part, but we are working on the sustainable part. Starting in fall 2015, students accepted into the program will be able to earn a craft brewing certificate at Kalamazoo Valley.
by Marc S. Reisch | March 16, 2015
Periodic Graphics: The Chemistry Of A Pint Of Guinness
—Periodic Graphics: The Chemistry Of A Pint Of Guinness “Chemical educator and Compound Interest blogger Andy Brunning explores the famous beer’s bubbles and bitterness” /articles/93/i11/Periodic-Graphics-Chemistry-Pint-Guinness.html 20150313 Chemical educator and Compound Interest blogger Andy Brunning explores the famous beer’s bubbles and bitterness 93 11 /magazine/93/09311.html Periodic Graphics: The Chemistry Of A Pint Of Guinness Guinness, stout, hops, carbonation, nitrogen, bubbles, glass, pint, melanoidins, humulone, St.
by Andy Brunning | March 13, 2015