Materials
Resin Buying Strategies - November 2010 Resin Prices Mostly Flat or Soft
Prices of commodity resins other than PVC moved up in September—and, in the case of polypropylene, rose a bit more in October.
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Materials: Algae to Replace Starch In Bio-Hybrid Compounds
In the continuing search for renewable raw materials to replace petroleum feedstocks in plastics, the newest candidate is … seaweed.
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Resin Buying Strategies - October 2010 A Brief Respite from Price Hikes?
Prices of commodity thermoplastics, except for PVC, moved up last month.
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Resin Buying Strategies - September 2010: Prices May Stabilize… Briefly
Prices of commodity resins, except for polypropylene, fell a bit more last month.
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K 2010 Preview, Materials Higher Performance, Better Processing, And Now Sustainability Share Spotlight at K
The K 2010 show will present new plastics materials for a wide range of industries, which makes it hard to generalize, but a few markets stand out prominently: packaging, medical, automotive, and electronic equipment.
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Resin Buying Strategies - August 2010: Commodity Resins Still Falling
The steady decline in commodity resin prices continued last month and into August.
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Materials Additives & Blends Take PLA Upscale
The second conference on biopolymers hosted by NatureWorks testified to the burgeoning interest in this new field of plastics.
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Resin Buying Strategies: Commodity Resin Prices Down
Prices of four major commodity resins continued to drop last month, albeit at a somewhat lesser velocity than in May.
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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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