polyolefins
TC Transcontinental Installs 'First Ever' BOPE Line in North America
TC Transcontinental Packaging will be installing what it says is the first-ever biaxially oriented PE (BOPE) line in North America.
Read MoreBiobased Mold Release for PP Automotive Formulations
Palsgaard’s Einar 201 was developed to help automotive compounders enhance the sustainability of PP formulations for class ‘A’ mold release.
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New Product Compounds Incorporate Post Consumer Recycled Content
LyondellBasell announced the addition of eight new grades to CirculenRecover, its portfolio of mechanically recycled PP and PE.
Read MoreExxon Adds Production of HDPE Molding Grades to Texas
HDPEs for pales and crates to be produced in Beaumont as well as Canada.
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New HDPE Grade for Mono-Material Machine Direction Oriented Films
Exxon introduced HD7165L for MDO film applications designed for recyclability.
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Flexible-Film Processor Optimizes All-PE Food Packaging
Tobe Packaging’s breakthrough was to create its Ecolefin PE multilayer film that could be applied with a specialized barrier coating.
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Nova Chemicals Announces Mechanical PE Recycling Facility
Indiana site expected to process over 100 million pounds of PE annually.
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Dairy Product Company to Release All-PE Film Pouch in China
Dow announced that Mengniu is developing a recyclable yogurt pouch using its INNATE TF-BOPE resin.
Read MoreMetal-Replacement PP Compounds for Sheet, Thermoforming
Resins are also said to offer options to compression and injection molding for forming form large, complex structural parts.
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Soft Prices for Volume Resins
While PP and PE prices may be bottoming out, a downward trajectory was likely for all other volume resins, including engineering types.
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