Month: September 2023

Resin Price Report: Booming export market hurts domestic supply

The Plastics Exchange Market Update: September 15, 2023

Polyplastics launches new PPS grade for EV Lithium Ion battery applications

ExxonMobil announces $2 billion expansion of Baytown TX facility

Prices bottom out for volume resins

Amapacet launches new colorants that mimic weathered metals

This Week in History

September 29, 1910: Donald Fletcher Holmes was born. He co-patented the process to manufacture TPU while working at DuPont.

Resin Price Report: Supply tightness expected to continue

The Plastics Exchange Market Update: September 1, 2023

LyondellBasell to shutter PP plant in Italy

SABIC and Sinopec start up joint venture PC plant in China

HDPE prices increase in Europe

ExxonMobil launches new HDPE for mono-material MDO film applications

PGP monomer market faces upward pressure

Ampacet develops new anti-static masterbatch for PE films

Resin Price Report: Producers seek five cent increase in PE contracts

The Plastics Exchange Market Update: August 25, 2023

Tennessee recycling facility destroyed in fire

Trinseo eyeing more plant closures in US and Europe

Polypropylene export prices rise in US

Prices of PE, PP, PS PVC drop

Celanese introduces new PPS grades for battery applications

SABIC launches new PC grades aimed at EV’s , and housings for outdoor battery storage

This Week in History

September 10, 1898: Waldo Lonsbury Semon was born. He did not invent PVC but is credited with turning PVC into a commercially viable product in 1926