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Prices Up for PE, PP, PS, Flat for PVC, PET
Trajectory is generally flat-to-down for all commodity resins.
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Matting Agent Designed for Engineering Resin Automotive and Other Types of Components
CAI Performance Additives’ ST-B50T is effective in ABS, PC/ABS, PC/ASA and PC/PBT.
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‘Breakthough’ Nucleating Agent for Range of PP Applications
CAI Performance Additives’ new ST-NAP32 nucleator boosts PP performance for improved lithium battery separators, injection-molded products and PP-R pipe.
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Prices Bottom Out for Volume Resins?
Flat-to-down trajectory underway for fourth quarter for commodity resins.
Read MoreBiobased Mold Release for PP Automotive Formulations
Palsgaard’s Einar 201 was developed to help automotive compounders enhance the sustainability of PP formulations for class ‘A’ mold release.
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Prices of PE, PP, PS, PVC Drop
Generally, a bottoming-out appears to be the projected pricing trajectory.
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Flexible-Film Processor Optimizes All-PE Food Packaging
Tobe Packaging’s breakthrough was to create its Ecolefin PE multilayer film that could be applied with a specialized barrier coating.
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BASF Opens Biodegradation and Microplastics Center of Excellence
Located at BASF’s site in Wyandotte, Mich., the center will support customers seeking a broad range of biodegradable circular economy solutions.
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PS Prices Plunge, Others Appear to Be Bottoming Out
PS prices to see significant drop, with some potential for a modest downward path for others.
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Avantium and SCGC Partner to Scale-Up CO2- Based Polymers to Pilot Plant
SCGC will use Avantium’s Volta Technology which uses electrochemistry to convert CO2 to chemical building blocks such as glycolic acid which combined with lactic acid make carbon-negative PLGA.
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UPM Biochemicals and Selenis Form Strategic Alliance to Develop Sustainable PETG
Partnership to develop PETG made from renewable, sustainably sourced forest biomass for use in a variety of packaging applications
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SABIC Gets 2023 ACC Sustainability Leadership Award
The award is for circularity achievements with ocean bound plastic-based solutions.
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