Month: January 2024

Weekly News Digest: January 29, 2024

Resin Price Report: INEOS declares force-majeure on polypropylene

The Plastics Exchange Market Update: January 19, 2024

Why Patrick Mahomes’s helmet shattered

PP prices rise sharply in Europe

BASF announces distribution partners for engineering plastics in North America

Tosaf develops PFAS free processing aids for polyolefin extrusion

Covestro develops new high heat PC copolymer for medical applications

SONGWON announces price increase and freight surcharge on stabilizers and coatings

Prices of the five commodity resins largely flat

Star Plastics names new CEO

Covestro realigns polycarbonate distribution

This Week in History

January 29, 1938: Paul Schlack at IG Farben invents nylon 6.

February 1, 2002: ExxonMobil becomes the sole owner of Adanced Elastomer Systems and the Santoprene product line.

February 4, 1941: Roy J Plunkett was granted the patent for “Tetrafluoroethylene Polymers” also known as Teflon.

Weekly News Digest: January 22, 2024

The Plastics Exchange Market Update: January 12, 2024

SPE International Polyolefins Conference returns to Galveston

PP spot prices up in Europe

LyondellBasell to acquire 35% of Saudi Arabia based National Petrochemical Industrial Company

DIC develops new plateable PPS grade

US Gulf arctic blast triggers a force majeure and lifts PP and PE prices

Tolsa develops new FR additives that do not contain PTFE

The fantasy and reality of raw material shelf life: Part 2

Weekly News Digest: January 8, 2024

Resin Price Report: Challenging year ends in shopping spree

The Plastics Exchange Market Update: December 29, 2023

Chinaplas returns to Shanghai after 6 year hiatus

PP prices up in Europe

Researchers develop new family of polymers capable of killing bacteria without typical anti-biotic additives

This Week in History

January 11, 1960: Chi Mei Corporation was founded in Taiwan

Weekly News Digest: January 1, 2024

TPE market expected to reach $19.73 Billion by 2029

Gaston Glock, inventor of the polymer framed firearm dies at 94

This Week in History

January 1, 1960: DuPont introduces Delrin acetal resin to the market.

January 5, 1918: The American Cellulose and Chemical Manufacturing Company was founded. This company’s name would be changed to Celanese Corporation of America in 1927.