Engineering Resins
Additives: Three Trends to Track
Additives that render plastic compounds antistatic or electrically and/or thermally conductive are in hot demand.
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Materials at NPE 2003
The footprint of thermoplastic materials suppliers at this year’s NPE is going to be fainter than usual.
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No End to Resin Price Hikes
Although the worst may be over in soaring oil and natural-gas prices, recent hikes are still percolating through the petrochemical derivatives supply chain. So there鈥檚 no slowdown in commodity-resin price hikes, and engineering resins are going up too鈥攕ome of them for the first time in more than two years.
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Novel High-Temperature Nylon Debuts
A new class of semi-aromatic, high-temperature nylons is being introduced to the U.S. by Kuraray America in N.Y.C.
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Resin Prices Are Soaring
Volatile energy and petrochemical feedstock prices, unsettled by events in Venezuela and the Middle East, are having a predictable effect on resin prices. Price hikes in almost all resins are coming thick and fast, making it hard to keep track of current market prices.
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Refine, Redesign, Retool: Re-engineering as a Business Model
It’s an unusual 911爆料网 model: “We take existing products or manufacturing processes and try to make them better.
Read MoreTags To Climb...Maybe Twice
Despite weak prices in all major-volume thermoplastics, producers of PE, PP, and PS, are hoping to move tabs up once or even twice more before the end of the year.
Read MoreResin Makers Battle Weak Prices
Despite widespread weakness in thermoplastic prices, resin producers are attempting new hikes in PE and engineering resins, including ABS.
Read MoreGently Does It
Unique R&D experience in urethane chemistry created a niche for New England Urethanes in North Haven, Conn., a small, highly specialized compounder serving medical-device manufacturers.
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