Commodity Resins
Commodities Futures Trading Starts for Polyolefins
In an era of volatile resin prices, trading commodities futures for plastics may be an idea whose time has come.
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K 2004 News Preview: Materials
Quite a few new polyolefins are being featured at this year’s show, with a particular emphasis on specialty PP and PE materials.
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Belt Polishing of Clear PP Film Proves Itself in Production
An unusual cast-film process that drops a melt curtain of polypropylene between a flexible steel polishing belt and a chill roll has now proven successful in high-volume commercial production.
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OPP Bottles: Has Their Time Come?
Maybe this time the often-predicted breakthrough will actually occur. What could make the difference are improved resins, clarifiers, and machinery.
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New Resins for Rotomolding
Several new commercial or experimental materials offer rotational molders higher stiffness, toughness, and processability in applications from toys to large storage tanks.
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New Clarifiers & Nucleators: They Make Polypropylene Run Clearer and Faster
New packaging opportunities are opening up for PP, thanks to a new crop of additives that boost clarity, stiffness, HDT, and processing rates.
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Another Supplier Develops Its Own Portfolio Of Metallocene PE & PP
In the past two years, a new player has quietly emerged among North American suppliers of metallocene-catalyzed polyolefins.
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Close-Up On Technology - New Technologies Add Zip to Rotomolding
Fully automated rotomolding equipment for nearly lights-out operation, a new approach to balancing molds, and a new oven design that trims space and energy requirements mark some of the new developments unveiled at the 27th Annual Fall Meeting of the Association of Rotational Molders (ARM), held in October in Toronto.
Read MoreNPE 2000 News Wrap-Up: High-Volume Thermoplastics
NPE 2000 offered up new HMW-MDPE and HMW-HDPE film and molding resins with enhanced mechanical properties, plus new VLDPE resins, a hexene LLDPE with improved stiffness/ strength balance, and an LDPE for high-speed extrusion lamination.
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New Polypropylene Families for Packaging, Blends & Composites
Two new lines of polypropylene resins from Basell North America challenge PS, PET, PVC, and other PPs for clear, rigid packaging.
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