Materials
TPEs for Fatty-Food-Contact Applications
Avient’s new Versaflex family complies with migration limit standards in North America and Europe.
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Sustainable Nylons from PCR and PIR Recovery
RadiciGroup’s new Renycle line of nylon 6 and 66 now part of Matmatch online platform.
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Mixed Pricing Outlook for Commodity Resins for Spring 2022
Prices of PE, PS may have peaked; they were slightly down for PP and PET, up for PVC.
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Additive Supplier, Film Processor Get Grant to Advance Multilayer Film Recycling
Interface Polymers and Flexipol awarded $1 million+ grant to provide fully recyclable LDPE multilayer packaging.
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Foster Adds Specialty TPU and TPU Alloy Products to its Arsenal of Healthcare Materials
AdvanSource Biomaterials’ specialty TPU materials are used in application segments such as cardiology, orthopedics, drug delivery, endoscopy, wound care, urology, and neurology.
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CJ BIO and NatureWorks Working Towards a Master Collaboration Agreement to Commercialize Novel Biopolymers
The two companies have agreed to collaborate on creating advanced products based on industry-leading Ingeo PLA and Phact PHA technologies to meet growing demand for sustainable materials across a broad array of markets
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Chemours Leads Remove2Reclaim Project to Advance Plastic Circularity
Project aims to develop commercial-scale detection and extraction technologies that enable the removal and recovery of TiO2 and polymers for reuse.
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TotalEnergies and New Hope Energy Partner on U.S. Advanced Recycling Project
New Hope Energy will build the plant that will transform end-of-life plastic waste into a recycled feedstock that Total Energies will purchase and convert into virgin-quality polymers.
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PBT for Sensitive Automotive Electronics in Extremely Challenging Environments
BASF’s Ultradur B4335G3 HR HSP boasts a unique combination of different properties such as outstanding hydrolysis resistance and good flowability
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UBQ Partners with Polymer-Metallization Specialist Polymertal to Create Lightweight, Sustainable Material for Complex Assemblies with Metallic Functionalities
Polymertal’s cutting-edge metal plating processes enable production of cost-effective hybrid metal-polymer parts for automotive, aerospace, communications and industrial sectors.
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