Materials

Additives

High Chroma Blue-Shade Effect Pigment with Intense Color

Sun Chemical’s new Lumina Royal Sparkling Blue expands the company’s color library with its mobile-based application.  

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Biopolymers

New Family of Bioplastics Boast Property Retention as well as Degradability and Recyclability

U.K. and U.S university research team have developed both a stretchable rubber like plastic as well as a tough but ductile one.  

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Additives

Heubach and SK Capital Acquire Clariant Pigments

Global pigments producer and private investment firm focused on specialty chemicals create global pigment technology and industry leader through new acquisition.  

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Tracing the History of Polymeric Materials: PET

How PET evolved from a material for fibers and fabrics to a force in packaging.  

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Biopolymers

First Commercially Available Chemically Recycled Bioplastic

Total Corbion PLA has launched Luminy rPLA, said to be the world’s first.

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Mixed Pricing Outlook for Volume Resins

The direction is down for polyolefins and up for nearly all others.

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Materials

Tracing the History of Polymeric Materials: How Nylons & Polyesters Connected

The history of nylons and polyesters are intertwined, and it takes some knowledge of chemistry to understand why.  

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DuPont Partners with Sporting Goods Manufacturer BOA Technology

Use of DuPont’s Zytel nylons along with Delrin acetal and Hytrel copolyester elastomer step up performance, fit and durability for BOA footwear.

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sustainability

PPAs for High-Voltage E-Motor and Inverter Busbars

Solvay’s Amodel Supreme and Bios Grades  support further sustainable innovation in e-mobility

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Glass-Filled PET for Automotive Exterior Components

  Polyplastics new Renatus PET grades boast superior weatherability

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